Here would be the beautiful waters at Kailua, Hawaii where we spent a week with cousins Michelle and Rod. We ate lots of pineapple, drank lots of wine and saw the entire island of Oahu except for the dirt road that connects the west coast with the north shore. We came home late last Tuesday and Wednesday we were harvesting our Cabernet Franc grapes due to the extremely warm weather before we left.
Here I am, running the crusher/de-stemmer for all 200 pounds of fruit. The Cabernet Sauvignon's are not ready yet, but soon. The wine is now fermenting in the chamber, which in other seasons is used as a powder room. Tomorrow we will attend a canning and preserving class at VIVA, The Culinary Institute of Florence in Sebastopol. Friday, if we are lucky, Daisy (Greyhair's mommy) will be visiting for a few days. Busy, busy, busy.
