What a beautiful Spring! Perfect for the vineyard. Despite a scarily dry winter, we had lots of rain late in the Spring, and the vines are going like gangbusters. The baby clusters are big and healthy. This could be a huge harvest! Budbreak happened this year a couple of weeks later than usual, in late March. We had some frost next to the ground, but nothing that damaged the vines. Those that got frosted in the low spots last year are even springing back to life. It is lovely to see!
I found the first rattlesnake of the season. I can smell those snakes from a long ways away, and I have a special bark to tell Mary and Ed. It was sleeping in a downspout. I've been bit by a rattlesnake three times! Twice last year, by a baby snake. I don't like that at all. The big snakes are scary, but the babies look like lizards, and I do like chasing lizards. I have to go to the hospital, and it hurts a lot. Now I have to be careful all summer. I do not want to be bit again!
