The Pickings

Harvest 2007 starts tomorrow morning at dawn. Hope enough hands will be available to get everything picked... Hope... Not sure if the stray cow that got into the vineyard yesterday damaged much; first glance seems she was more interested in the neighbor's irrigated lawn. Dumb cow. Truck usually runs. Most of the boxes hold together despite their age and the plastic buckets, well, more than half still have handles. Truck usually runs, really. Haven't seen a rattlesnake in at least 3 weeks and the only scorpion encountered, last weekend, was way up by the house... In the house, actually, but nowhere near where we'll be working. Plenty of food and drink on hand. Truck usually runs... Please, truck, run.

With all those planets spinning around it, dependent on it, the sun can still ripen a bunch of grapes like he has nothing else in the universe to do. Let's see how he did...