Sorry folks, about not keeping up. Life here is a bit mundane! Day 27 of work at Indevin, got a day off on day 24 (yes, my dears, 23 days straight of work...and we weren't even the last to get a day off!).
Grapes, grapes, grapes have continued to come in. My fellow cellar rats and I have set lines from tank to tank, racking, transferring lees for RDV, dispatching to tanker trucks and other vessels...Adding Vita-Fermaid, DAP (Di-ammonium Phosphate), PMS (Potassium Metabisulfite -sp?), Bentonite....all kinds of things.
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| View from OTR (Over the Road) cellar. |
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| A rainy day at work |
Hoses have blown, tanks have exploded, lines have been stolen...tankers set back a day because they missed the ferry because someone stole our flow-meter outta the middle of our line...but really it has been a fantastic experience. It's been raining quite a bit this week...Saturday it POURED, and I was outside from 10 am until 7 pm....but of course I felt quite at home in my wet weather gear! Smokos were very, very precious that day....a hot coffee and snack and a sit down on a couch really saves your day :)
12 hour days end on the 22nd (tentatively) and the end of vintage party is May 6th...then the traveling begins! A week or so in Wellington, then heading down to Wanaka and southland for the winter....ahhhh snowboarding.
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| At Secret Garden for Jenny's (right) Birthday! |
Though it's hard to believe, socializing happens....for some people a bit too much. We have dinner at friend's places (Italian food-Carbonara-made by Italians is deathly amazing), go out with 30 cellar people for 'Thirsty Thursday, hit up a bar for someone's birthday. It's nice to get out and experience life again....you realize that there is more than juice and pumps...people are out there living life! Going to the post and chowing at restaurants...walking their dogs and visiting the bank...not hauling hoses and searching for reducers!
Life is good, and though life is pretty gnar right now, I'm going to miss my Indevin friends....But every once in awhile a song comes on that makes me miss home!
Cheers!
