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The Final Countdown... 5.4-5.5

5/6/2010

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The rows have been marked, the soil amended, vine rows tilled, and now, rows ridged.
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Dealing with our previous issue of the soil spreading out to five feet instead of the 3.5 to 4 feet we had tilled---we used a blade to push the soil back to the middle of the rows. This ridging will also improve surface drainage away from the plants and rows and into the row middles where we have established sod.

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Rural water rolled in and finished the project in less than 5 hours. 

Marking where the vines will soon be planted.

Probably not the most efficient method... But the only one that we came up with that worked...
Originally Will was thinking he would be able to follow the 24 foot row marks Seth had made, and drag 3 chains attached to a pole, to mark every 8 feet. This failed miserably as it didn't leave as mark as shown in the video below.

No worries... We're not afraid of manual labor. We cut a PVC pipe to be 24 feet, and followed the marks Seth had made and marked every 8 feet with spray paint and moved to the next 24 foot line. Lots of walking...
This was early in the process... The x's turned into dots later in the day.

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What our diet has been consisting of...

Getting Closer!!

The auguring started off great! It was taking about 30 seconds from beginning the hole, to moving to the next.
That is, until it broke down...
Will stopped in to Caswell Plumbing in Inwood to pick up more PVC. Will told of his woes of his broken down skid steer... The gentleman at Caswell's offered their skid steer for us to use!
And again, we were movin'.
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Dad brought over his telahandler, and we were really moving.
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6 Comments
Jo Wiebersick
5/6/2010 02:52:47 am

This all looks great! We can't wait to see the whole process--and of course taste the finished product!!! Love, Uncle Jerry and Aunt Jo.

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susan
5/6/2010 03:59:31 pm

This blog is awesome. Thanks for all of the pictures and words that help us share this journey with you. See you on Saturday!

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Gwen Larsen
5/6/2010 07:16:54 pm

fascinating, informative, personal and enjoyable: glad you're sharing each step with us! (love those big skies and sunsets, too) Wish we could join in Sat!

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Celeste Cunningham
5/7/2010 10:40:45 pm

Enjoying watching your progress on the vineyard. It is fascinating. Wish you the absolute best and look forward to buying Calico Skies wine in the future.

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Kirk Hage link
5/9/2010 12:25:09 am

Since I already know how much work is involved with fencing qnd moving earth I have to compliment you on your efforts to document the progress. This is work that is always under appreciated. I thank you for sharing this wonderful event online.

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Cory Schowengerdt
5/10/2010 12:37:37 pm

Wow, I thought we got in on the hard stuff. I was wrong. Knew you guys did a lot getting ready for all of us, but I had no idea. Really proud of you both.

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