Early harvest of Mourvedre, Grenache, Syrah, and Viognier. This also means we need space for storing our wine, so we are retrofitting our garage: We also need more power so I double our Solar Panels, and chang all the batteries by more efficient ones:

We have a barn with a horse and we're looking for one for Eric. But Rosy is alone, so we got 2 dwarf Nubian goats, Lakota and Rain: They are so much fun and they are bonding with Rosy, and Lakota gives us milk twice every day.

We finally get an address and we are moving in, for real. The place needs some work, but first we have to unload the Pod... Even knowing we brought only a quarter of our stuff from Seattle, half of it ends up in the garage as we don't have room for it in our small […]

here are some old blogs I adding just now. OK so today, July 5th, 2015, I saw a snake that was not a rattlesnake. It was green and going between the pump shed and the solar panels. Then we saw a Tarantula that tried to come to our dinner and went to watch the car […]

As following the house saga, it is now the generator saga. When the house was installed, at some point, somebody shut the gas tank. The generator that cycles every two weeks, killed the battery by trying to start. I realized that in February and get a new battery. But then when we return in March, […]

In february 2014 we stopped by Home Direct in Tucson, to have a look at mobile homes, just by curiosity. And there we found the perfect little home right for us, 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, big kitchen, open space, 1,600 sq feet, and only $69,000. Gina and I decide to buy it. We come back […]

My wine story: 1982 I did an internship at Moon Valley Circuits in Sonoma Valley, CA for a month, working on the wine press electronic/circuits, mainly at Domain Chandon, but also at some other wineries. 1997 Crete for a week. Wines are not so good, but Uzo is quite good. 1997 Buenos Aires, Argentina for […]