A New Season begins...

Well, it actually began on New Years Day, as we decided we'd try to start early so that it wouldn't be a rush in the spring. Unfortunately, the weather was the wettest since we've been here, and there were a few personal crises which meant being back in England a few times. But still, on April 4th Jules tied down the final twig of the 6000 + vines. She's been concentrating on that while I've been doing the pruning and clearing the sticks. All of those are now stacked up waiting for the "bonfire ban" to end on May 1st. We burned about 30% of the twigs before the spring ban took effect on March 15th. Now we've started attaching a lot of the stems to the lower wire with the special elastic stuff, and I've replaced 50 poles. Plenty of work left to do if anyone wants to visit, though....