The winery in New Kent, Virgina is adding on to the winery with a new building, so they were selling off part of their Chardonnay grape vines a couple weeks ago, so Linda asked if I wanted to take a road trip with her and head up there to dig up grape vines with her so we left the menfolk at the marina after breakfast and headed out. It was a beautiful warm day with enough breeze to keep us cool. The deal was if you dug up the vines yourself they were $2.00 each, if you had the winery dig them up with the backhoe they were $3.00 each....hmmm....dig them up ourselves (back breaking work especially in the heat)...or let them do the dirty work for just a buck more?? Yep, we let the backhoe do the work.
Now came the question of how to get the 4-5 ft tall plants in Linda's Mercury Marquis....see earlier that morning Linda made the suggestion she drive her SUV to do the job but her husband insisted on her driving his Mercury. The only way to get the "6" plants in the car was to put half in the trunk and half in the back seat. Now had we thought to bring lawn bags to put the root balls down in it might have helped to keep most of the dirt out of the car...but....we didnt think of bringing any. So we carefully shoved the plants, having to bend the branches a bit, in the trunk and back seat and headed home.
Linda knew Ken (her husband) was going to be a bit surprised when he saw the car full of grape vines, and I knew the look on his face was going to be a Kokak moment, so when we arrived back at the marina and Ken came up to the car to see what we spent most of the day doing (he was thinking the plants were going to be 1-2 feet high) I was ready with my camera when he exclaimed, "Holy Crap look at my car!".... it was a good day.
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