Few days before end of summer vacation, my son spent the day with me and helped too. Before that my kids stayed with their grandparents during the weekdays, coming home for the weekends.

Today my son and I went to check the irrigation system in two greenhouses, we also gave some grapes to friends. Then we took some grapes to a farmer’s market. There we put labels and left them on the shelf. Many times there are grapes left after packing for the local cooperative. Last year also my son helped during harvest.

My son likes fishing, so then we went to a couple of shops and he bought some bait and did lots of window shopping.

今週３日間はいずもえんさんの研修生が来ました。いずもえんさんは調整作業に手伝いっています。研修生が色んな作業を体験しました、コンーテナーを組み立てる、パックのフィルムを貼り、ブドウの掃除、袋詰めまででした。とても丁寧作業をして、頑張りました。今週はとても暑かったです。

大きい房は粒バリとても良かったです。夜が涼しいくなると箱詰めをしながら音楽を聞きます。Here is a great new song by Maroon 5, Girls Like You.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This morning when I drove to ship the grapes, the sea was foggy and cool. It is a 10 minute drive that goes along the coast, over the hills and to a plain. But later the day was hot and the sunshine was covering it all, steady, quiet, straight.

天気が良すぎるから二番目ハウスの収穫が同時にしています。一人は出来ない4人で作業をしています。

朝早くブドウを撮って、作業場で調整作業をします。音楽お聞きながら一人で夜遅くまでやります。

 

This year’s harvest just started. Weather is good, but hotter than last year’s. It has been 100 days after the bloom of the earliest vineyard. The second greenhouse is also ready for harvest, 95 days after bloom. It is going to be a lot of work too. This time some guys are giving a hand, there are new faces too.

Recently I am listening to Silvio Rodriguez. It takes me to the time when I went to high school and university in Colombia. It brings back good memories and feelings also, after so long ago and soo far away.  Canto Arena by Silvio Rodriguez.

島根県では天気が良くて暑い時期になりました。シャインマスカットの収穫が始まります。今日はブドウの花が咲いてから100日が経ちました。今年も注文を受けいます。

注文書はこちらです。

チラシはこちらです。

Today was a rainy, cool day. I was trimming grape flowers in the second greenhouse. Flowering started about a week ago, many clusters have gone thru pollination and fertilization, to formation of berries. The aroma of the grape flowers was very intense. Showers ran across the sky from time to time. In the evening the sky was pale and still.

ブドウの樹はとても忙しいです。僕も忙しくて一人で作業が出来ない、でも、色んな人が手伝っています。去年は雨よけ栽培の面積は17アルでしたが、今年は遅い作型の面積は9アルです、加温と無加温栽培の作業は大変です。

冬は寒くて雪が多かった、葉っぱが落ちる樹に良かったです。

Kylie Minogue singing in Spanish, Stop Me From Falling, from her new album, great!

去年より少し早くせん定をしました。今度の栽培の計画が変わります、せん定の順番も違います。荒せん定は長いです、本せん定は短くて残す芽は1です。加温と無加温栽培の畑の本せん定は2月上旬にします。雨よけ栽培の畑は2月下旬に本せん定をします。芽が出るまでは病気が出る可能性があるがらせん定を二回します。天気が良かった、色もきれいでした。Green Light by Lorde, from her album Melodrama.

 

The voiceless tang of deep seawater

The shy green of a forest in summer

The glowing bang of a flock of birds at dusk

The grateful smell of the ground after the rain

The transparent roughness of pine bark

Sometimes I forget; no one can take away from me what is not mine.