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| "Man with two hats" sculpture in Ottawa, Canada. |
So this month I've been wearing two hats at the winery; still finishing up in the tasting room (I am on the schedule until the end of the month) and also beginning to work on the Chef's Garden in preparation for planting in another week or two.
I've also commandeered our sunroom here at home to be a de-facto greenhouse for the first things I will be planting -- squash of all kinds, which are a staple on the summer menu at the winery, and also tomatoes, cucumbers and edible flowers like nasturtiums and calendula. Plus I've planted seeds for fall squash like butternut and pumpkin, which need to go in the ground in early May. Can you believe we already have to start thinking of fall? I only just dragged my short sleeves out of the closet again.
But while I'm dancing at two weddings as well as taking master gardening classes (and BTW our last class was all about grafting apple trees, which I discovered I suck at -- who knew?), posting will be a bit light. I'm sure that by the first week in April things will become a little more normal again. On April 1 I'm also having some minor surgery on a benign tumor that's been bothering me for awhile now -- it's been pressing on a nerve on my hip -- so it's not an exaggeration to say I'm really looking forward to being down to ONE job and having a pain-free hip again. It's the little things in life, ya know?
Endings and beginnings are rarely clear-cut and obvious in most areas we give our time to. Usually one thing winds down as another is winding up, and so you end up with periods of double this or that. In this case, double employment. At least both my jobs are at the same wonderful place, which I'm thankful for.
So I will be light on word count for a couple more weeks but I'm going to try and make up for it by posting more pictures.
Tomorrow we will be attending a wine dinner and I hope to share that with you. It's a huge festival weekend in Paso Robles and all the wineries are doing something. It sure will be nice to get out and have a Date Night with Big Ag.
Good luck with your surgery. I hope it gives you some relief.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Molly! Appreciate the good thoughts. I'm nearly positive this is going to do the trick.
DeleteGood luck with the surgery & good thoughts for feeling better in the near future. Have fun at the wine dinner. We have started drinking wine again (on a regular basis, not just w/special dinners) & are experimenting with finding good drinkable $10 & under bottles for week night consumption. We've found a couple already. We are big red drinkers & Ihave some very high priced & delicious bottles that we do need to drink up soon but those WILL be opened w/special dinners.
ReplyDeleteI always tell people not to put off drinking their "special" wines for too long -- we've let many bottles go past their prime waiting for the "right" moment and now if I see they are ready I'll open them up just because it's Tuesday! Thanks for the good thoughts on the surgery, too, I'm a little nervous but it's really a very minor procedure so probably shouldn't be problematic at all. : )
DeleteGood luck with the surgery! You could pull some really good April fools jokes when you're waking up from surgery. Hopefully they won't though! Funny this post is sort of similar to a post I've been outlining in my head called "entr'acte". We'll see if it ever makes it to black and white :)
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see the garden progress. I assume you also have some of the landscaping crew available if/when you need them. Which will be so nice I'm sure! Enjoy your fun spring...and surgery!
I do have landscaping crew available, as needed, otherwise I could never do this -- I'd be dead in a week lol. I hope your post makes it to the blog; always love reading your words and seeing your pics!
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