Hey all,
The last few weeks have been fun, but I haven't been able to do too much hiking because of the increasing workload and bad weather. For the most part, I've been on campus hanging out with my friends here and spending time doing schoolwork - it seems like I had no work the first half of the semester and now I have quite a bit. I did manage to get out this past Saturday for a nice day hike in Lewis Pass National Park.
Today I harvested my grapes! We had to weigh the clusters from each individual vine so that the university can get yield data for each grapevine, so it took about 3.5hours. It was a lot of fun though, and the weather cooperated nicely (a perfect fall day). I must have eaten a couple pounds of grapes throughout the harvest, because they were so tasty. After all, no one at Lincoln is making wine out of our Chardonnay grapes this year, because this season wasn't kind to Chardonnay and the grapes took too long to ripen. I've got a friend in the wine science class, however, who took my grapes and is planning to make some sort of wine/mead mixture out of many different grape varieties and honey. It will probably taste awful, but it will be fun to drink some sort of beverage that I had a hand in creating.
This weekend I'm going to visit Mr. Merrall Macneille, a cousin of S. Satterthwaite, one of my Williams professors. Mr. Macneille owns a small dairy herd (Jerseys), and makes his own cheese and yoghurt, and also does some timber framing. Hopefully I'll learn a bit about his operation. I'm also looking forward to spending a bit of time with a family and get a home cooked meal. Maybe I'll do some work for him around the property if he needs it.
Hope all is well back home. I miss it! Have a great weekend.
-James
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