Hiking Thursday This Thursday we went hiking with the hiking group up Rustler Park up to 9,360 feet and for 6 miles. The view from there was nice, and there were flowers everywhere. After the monsoon, everything is growing and blooming. It was a good day. We also crossed 6 border patrols on a trail. […]
Flash Flood
Flash Flood What is a Flash flood? It is a sudden, rapid flood, usually of short duration and local impact. Meaning, here, you are driving on the road in the sun just fine. But there’s a big black cloud with lightnings in the mountain. It looks like it is going to rain. You come back […]
Robot and CHV
Robot and CHV Finally Wall-Ye is here. It suffered a bit from the trip to here, but it is now functional. I called it Arthur like in the movie “Passengers” (Jennifer Lawrence & Chris Pratt – 2016), although it doesn’t talk much. Not at all as a matter of fact. But it is very useful. […]
Beautiful Sunset on CHV
Beautiful Sunset on CHV The humidity in the air is intensifying the colors in the sky. Magnifique couché de soleil à CHV L’humidité dans l’air intensifie les couleurs du ciel. […]
Uncle & Aunt visit at CHV
Uncle & Aunt visit at CHV Gina’s uncle Jim, and his wife Cathy, stopped by for 3 days on their road trip around the US. Visite d’un Oncle et d’une Tante à CHV L’Oncle de Gina, Jim, et sa femme, Cathy, se sont arrêtés à CHV pour trois jours durant leur voyage en voiture autour […]
Harvest is over
Harvest is over We finished the harvest last Monday, with the help of my fellow firefighters volunteers, just before it started raining again. There were few encounters, 2 rattlesnakes revealed by Diva, and a tarantula. Nobody got hurt, except the snake that became appetizer for dinner. The grapes are very nice this year, although we […]
A Bear Market…
A Bear Market… Here when we talk about a bear market, we mean it literally. A young bear came through our property and wander around to do its market for food. It destroyed one of our beehive (luckily the empty one), opened the metal barrel and scattered the chicken food that was inside, pushed down […]
Thunderstorms season
Thunderstorms season We had a bad thunderstorm last week with winds at 55 mph. We are still fixing the damages. Happily it was the day we harvested the Syrah and it was safe in the garage. The vineyard did not suffer too much. The house was fine, we didn’t loose power, but Portal and Rodeo […]
A thunderstorm coming our way
A thunderstorm coming our way very fast… We had several thunderstorms the past weeks. Too much water for the grapes, and it is delaying our harvests. While the sugar is going down drawn in water, the acidity is going away…Bad! Un Orage vient sur nous à grande vitesse… Nous avons eu beaucoup d’orages ses semaines […]
Things don’t last long here
Things don’t last long here There are things that are made to last a long time but not even 2 years here in the AZ wilderness: The septic tank had to be cleaned after 2 years (it was not installed correctly, vents were missing). Moderate expense. The well pump died after 4 years because of […]
