We have finally been getting tiny numerous harvests from our grapes this year. They’ve been through… a lot. Lots of terrible soil and drought and transplanting. We have two types of grapes planted right now… I think… the Seedless Concords and ‘Reliance’. Maybe something from our friend and neighbor, Tony the Tea Guy. Anyway, the Reliance have never really produced or done much of anything, despite their rave reviews. The Seedless Concords remind me more of muscadines than I was expecting, the insides have the texture of eyeballs (not that I’ve ever eaten eyeballs, but lets just say these aren’t like the watery commercial grapes you get in the store). Flavor of the Seedless Concords is excellent though. VERY strong grape, it’s almost like eating sweet candy.
Perspectives on slopes are always weird. V is taller and larger than me, but down slope.
Also, in other exciting news, V mentioned that there was a HELICOPTER hovering very low over our trees the other day when I was at work, he thinks that we amused someone by our crazy technohomestead complex. This new information reallllly makes me want to plant more banana trees to screen the house, and really get it finished painted dark brown, so it more harmoniously fades into the mountainside.
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