Rosy had an accident: When a 1,500 lbs horse is trying to get to the grass on the other side of the fence, all bets are off. Rosy pushed the metal fence until she got to the grass on the other side, but when she tried to pull her head back in, she pull the […]

A night in the wilderness We decided to take a short vacation and went spent the night in the wilderness behind our vineyard. In the morning we went for a walk in the mountain. It's crazy how different is the vegetation between our place and here, only 4 miles and 500 ft higher. Une nuit […]

Rattlesnake by the house We heard Diva barked at something and found a Diamond back Rattlesnake just by the house in the middle of the afternoon. Too close, too dangerous...Look between Gina and the Tank. It got sentenced to death by decapitation and served for dinner as an appetizer. What goes with snake? A good […]

Feeding Hummingbirds and bats We have three Hummingbirds feeders and now about a dozen hummingbirds come and feed daily. We also have bees from our two beehives coming and helping themselves at the feeders and the bird bath. But we also have noticed last night when we forgot our feeders outside, bats coming and drinking […]

Cheese game: You remember the cheese game we blogged about in the past, where we have various cheeses, with various crackers, and various wines? Well, after playing it for months, and because the cheese variation around here is scarce, we pushed the game one notch up. We added chocolate. Different types of dark chocolate to […]

Harvest Time at Copper Horse Vineyard: The harvest has started early this year, again. Last Monday we harvested almost a ton of Viognier and, on Wednesday, 2/3 of a ton of Syrah. It took 6 peoples 9 hours to harvest the Viognier, and only 4 hours to harvest the Syrah. Then there is the 1.5 […]

Snake in the Vineyard in English: I was working on my hands and knees pulling grass at the base of the wine when I encountered a 5" snake skin. You know the saying "If it was a snake it would have bitten me", and it was a snake, but just its skin, luckily. Based on […]

Bugs in the vineyard: There are quite few bugs in the vineyard, but this one was the biggest and the most magnificent. I'm talking about the "Long-Jawed Longhorn Beetle" that I saw on a leaf of a vine. It feeds on fruit, normally of Saguaro, prickly pear cacti, but today, special, on Copper Horse Vineyard […]

Summer, time for snakes and spiders at CHV: We saw few Diamond backs rattlesnakes, and this beautiful, about 5 feet, Gopher snake, who likes to eat baby rattle snakes. We also saw some Tarantulas out for mating season, and a good size one in between the window and the outside blind. Tarantulas don't climb. This […]

February 2015 - Pruning We went to our Vineyard with the intend of pruning our vines, but as soon as we got on our land we noticed that a bedroom window of our new home has been broken into. It'll take 4 days to find a place (Bishop in Lordsburg) to fix the window. The […]