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May 24, 2006

Demolition Day Three

While we were visiting our new office, Dozer and the demo crew dug a huge hole beside the vineyard to use as a burn pit for all the combustible debris from the house demo. Essentially they dug a trench long enough and deep enough to back a 6-wheel dump truck into to dump each load. Then as Dozer began to clear the trees from the hillside they put the tree pieces on top of the debris pit. It was pretty awesome to finally catch our first glimpse of the new view we'll have of the pond and the vineyard from the tasting bar.

There is going to be one big-ass fire tomorrow night...

Bad news from the well-diggers. They are down to 600 feet and barely getting a gallon per minute. For those who don't know shit about well-digging that is abysmal. In fact there are many wells around that are less than 100 feet deep that get 30 gallons per minute. They will keep drilling tomorrow but it's not looking good. In fact, if the county isn't convinced that the well will produce over one gallon per minute we won't get the approval and we'll have to fill this well in with concrete and start over. And no, you don't get your money back for the useless hole.

Enjoy the pics!!!

Meanwhile, out in the vineyard, the post crew had finished the remainder of the posts for the new plantings.

Of course, once the demo crew was gone for the day it was back to vineyard chores. Had to shoot position the viognier, then spray both the cab franc and viognier with the next round of fungicide:

Microthiol Special - rate 2 lb per acre
Dithane DF Rainshield Nt - rate 2 lb per acre

Headed home at 8:30 PM. And this was supposed to be an easy week off...

Posted by Stephen at May 24, 2006 10:03 PM