He is building a septic tank for their new house by himself and asked for a little help. I like working with Reto, he's very explicit with his instructions and expectations but then meticulous in getting everything exactly right. That and he owns a steamroller.
Other than helping Reto with the "caca hole" as he refers to it, Sara and I have been doing the same thing every day, and it's getting a little tedious. Well groomed vine looks a little like a pitchfork, with one main stalk rising to the ground and then all of the healthy vine splits off about knee hight (or waist hight if you're Sara). This doesnt happen naturally and that's where we come in. We cut anything an everything that comes out of the ground that isnt the main stalk. Having trouble picturing it? Luckily I have before and after pictures:
This can take a while.
The group of vines we are working on (and have been since Wednesday) are Syras (I'll check the spelling later) on the highest point of the vineyard (right next to La Madonne if you've looked through the pictures on picasa [see the link on the right entitled "My Photos"]). They're divided into three sections. The first and lowest section took us 1,5 hours total, so naturally we thought we'd be totally done one, two days top. But the second became harder and more dense so it took us until the end of Thursday to finish. So we thought ok probably one, two days top for the third section. Ooh la la. The third section is horrible, it takes us 2 hours for one line of vine (there are 17 per section). Today we nearly finished our 7th line (which took us two days mind you), so there's probably one, two days top left...
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Location:Gressac, Saturday
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