Hakuna Matata

Gewürztraminer

There is this guy named Stuart who worked really hard to finish our basement for us and has since become a friend of ours. So when he called last night to ask for help picking Gerwurtraminer grapes in his vineyard this morning I couldn't say no. I had no idea what was in store for us. All I knew was that we were to dress warm and show up at 8am. Silly me thought that I could bring along my camera and take pretty pictures. But no there was no time to take photos....it was real hard work. So all these pictures were taken by Alex and Rachel.

It was a beautiful crisp fall day. Perfect weather to put us to work. Stuart's wife gave me a pair of gloves and shears and it was off to picking grapes. They have 5 acres and after about an hour of pruning I was starting to get overwhelmed wondering when we were going to actually finish. But luckily they only have 1 acre planted in Gerwurt so the other 4 acres will have to wait for another visit. It was great to be out in the fresh air working while the girls ran around for the whole entire morning with some other kids that were there. It was fun except for all the earwigs that hung around the grapes. I tried hard not to be such a girly girl around all these 'farm' types. But it was hard to hide my reactions especially this one time when I picked off a huge bunch of grapes and had about 3 earwigs drop onto my glove. It took me a few seconds to recuperate from that incident but I carried on and ended up having a great morning.