Thursday, August 20, 2009

Monday, August 17, 2009

.....BREAKING NEWS from Sandyland Vineyard............

Secondary Fermentation has begun....


Cellar hands John and Scott (and Diane) completed the primary fermentation on Saturday and have transferred the juice into a 5 gal carboy to begin the secondary fermentation. This step could take weeks so don't get tooooo excited, we are a long way to a finished product.(The date on Scott's camera is incorrect so don't get confused, you didn't lose a month.)

Sunday, August 16, 2009


The dining room is almost finished! The walls are painted City Rink, the ceiling is Timeless Ivory and the trim is Extra White. The crown moulding and the white blinds are not up yet. Soon, I hope. Kelly have moved on to the living room and everything is really a mess. Leon has a chair, the remote and the TV can be uncovered for his marathon WFN viewing, everything else is draped in plastic. I am in the process of getting the screens replaced on the living room storm windows and then getting the windows washed. There are 7 windows in the living room alone ! Any volunteers?

The concrete forms for the front porch will be built this week and then the concrete poured. You have to jump off the porch to get down. Titus is visiting this week so visitors have to scale the front porch to get in. The 80 year old railing is at Kingfisher Kookers getting sandblasted and powdered baked. Still a lot to do to get everything back in it's place. Maybe by Thanksgiving?

Friday, July 31, 2009

July 31, 2009

After one week of construction I have to admit a lot has been accomplished, a big mess has been made and there is much more left to do. The dining room is almost ready for painting.The new texture looks great. Kelly Joe has done a super job as always. Now I have to settle on one of the five colors I have been testing on different walls in the living room. Help!!! The windows have been washed in the dining room, new screens on the storm windows and they are ready to be painted as well. Cody and his Dad worked hard today getting the steps removed. They were constructed out of concrete poured over a huge amount of rocks and then a one inch layer of concrete smoothed over the rocks. As you can see there is a huge pile of rocks to be hauled down to the shop to fill in the washed out driveway. There are still some small rocks in the grass that need to be picked up by a bevy of grand kids!

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