Labelling and trenching

When you start you can't finish - that is how it felt this week. We dug out one trench (these are channels for draining rainwater off the land) and being so nice and wet the grass likes to grow vigorously and blocking the pipes underneath the roads, but once this was done we realized all the others needed the same back braking effort. We hired the help of 10 extra men to tackle the task. A sudden order for most of our Chardonnay ended up in us labelling all afternoon. We used the new sqeechy to dry the bottles. In the "old" days we washed and dried the bottles by hand, but today we used the new toy most efficiently. It was 4 times the speed we normally performed.
In the vineyards the first "tears" are to see a good sign that the plants are pushing sap to the branches and wounds the pruning has left behind. Soon the first buds are swelling and the new circle starts all over again.
The weeks are too short to attend to all the work, especially when it rains in between.