September 20 - September 26, 2015

	Sunday September 20, 2015 Josh is here for awhile today. We have to do more analysis to determine if water or acid should be added to the rest of the fermenting wine. Along with Cabernet clone 6, we still have Montepulciano, Mourvedre, Carignan, Petit Verdot and an Escuro blend of Tannat, Alvarelhao and Souzao perking away. Over the last several days we have adjusted many of these and still have to look at the Escuro blend and Mourvedre. Also the acid on the Petit Verdot is a little low so we have to look at the numbers on everything this morning. We also have to discuss the possibility of pressing some tomorrow. Last night Pat and I went to a restaurant we had not been to in Healdsburg. It could have been the best food we have had there. We do not get out much so this was a little celebration of the end of the Harvest. The restaurant is called Chalkboard, look it up if interested. I hear it is Catalina's favorite. They have an interesting menu, in particular, we ordered a flight of pastas, 6 half portions, if you like rich pastas, you have to try this place........ Tuesday September 22, 2015 I learned from my Apple Watch.......Equinox is not 12 hours light and twelve hours dark in all places on September 23. I always thought 12 and 12 but I looked up the definition...............https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox I had all kinds of problems today, to mention. My monitor is out again. These monitors only last a short time so I ordered another one to come in tomorrow on one day delivery............I love Amazon....I borrowed one monitor in this office with 7 computers and it was horrible so I have another monitor now that has been used on one of our many computers so it is only 19 inches but I hope to survive.........my last one was 27 and my new one coming tomorrow will be 27 so I have decided to add the warranty for three years.......... I am fortunate to be married to Pat, who is more level headed than I. She does not have big passion like I. So I asked her: why did you not talk about the Dodgers? They are playing on our anniversary on September 29 and we are headed to Santa Cruz? She said she had not thought of that.............she has few pressing passions but I think she knew about it............ We have been harvesting 2nd crop for the last two days.......We harvested another .75 tons today, 1.5 so far this week for Dave's Cuvee. ..........It is coming in at 27 sugar.......real nice.....fun funfun 8:30 Pm: We are working with Tesla to go off the grid meaning disconnecting from PG&E. I hate PG&E. They are making mistakes but it is not worth fighting them. They are upping our minimum fee for the month to over $200 so since i am generating too much power, it does not count.....it is a minimum, sorry............If I can work with Tesla to have battery back up, I can have all the power I need at any time......................... Wednesday September 23, 2015 8:45 Pm: I am agitated about many things tonight. The Equinox is what I learned, it is not 12 hours light and 12 hours dark on June 23........we still have 7 minutes more of light here SO it will be interesting to see when we go back to 12 and 12...... 2nd crop is coming in great so that is no problem. One on going thing is ......we have decided to do some maintenance in Seattle. It is costing some money but Susie lives there. Susie may want to move back here...........NO not in her bedroom which has not been changed since she left with ART work all over the ceiling and walls.........NO she wants to live down by San Francisco. It seems like everyone wants to live there. I prefer Seattle but maybe I grew up in San Francisco............long story So we are fixing up the house up in Seattle and may sell in 6 months............ This is ongoing, organizing.......it is all about organizing and being prepared.........the wine is in control Remember I have said I hate PG&E, i think they owe me money but I have a better solution........go off grid. I have a system down 1000 feet so how do we get all that power up here if we go off grid. I am talking to Tesla so if they can figure this out, I think everyone is underestimating Tesla. They may make most of their money from energy............... I got a new 27 inch display today for my computer......WOW, it is so much better than my last 27 inch.......... Thursday September 24, 2015 The most fun thing today was to see this incredible acer 27 inch monitor. It is brighter than my last one........no comment......... hey the harvest will be over with the last of the 2nd crop tomorrow. I love harvest so it will be over but now I have learned I need a vacation sometimes.......oceans will be in front of me Pat and I went off to refi our property........it cost us about $7000 and Exchange Bank is still the lender SO they made $7000 and we lower our interest rate to 2.5% for three years SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Pat and I will pay off the Mortgage by paying as much as we can for 4 years. It will take a year to justify the $7000 but after that we are way ahead of the game. Exchange did well also and they are a local company........... So Pat and I had a great lunch at Bear Republic and a Black Bear Beer for me. So way before that while Pat and I were in today she stopped off for two cosmetic appointments..............I went over to the local sign company. I had to approve a new sign. Someone during one of the events took our sandwich Board so I figured we need a post on the North and South side of our drive way in concrete. Pat says why>>>>>::::I told her I decided on another sign under the big one, not too big, stating: CHARGE YOUR TESLA HERE........... Or we could change it to Tesla Charger Here.......... So when I got home at 1:25 everyone but Catalina had left.......Cat 2 said she did not see Josh leave. It has been a hard Harvest........I will see them tomorrow for the last day of Harvest.................  [Brad here. One of Dave's customers took this picture of Dave and his pizza in Dave's kitchen.  Pizza kitchen?  I know that kitchen. A couple of times a year I'm lucky enough to go up there and Dave and I make our own pizzas. Drink wine and have a good time. We both thought that maybe the last time we did it was maybe the best set of pizza's we'd done. Lots of practice. Lots of experimenting. My pizzas use a different type of flour, though my favorite thin pizza flour is something I just found out about. Dave bought some II Caputo 00 Red Pizza Flour and let me try it out. I went out and bought a case of it. Looks awfully good. Well, both Dave and I have homemade pizza every Sunday in our homes but somehow I think I want some right now.] Friday September 25, 2015 Harvest is over. We brought in the last of the 2nd crop so I will have more to say later........ Saturday September 26, 2015 Pat and I still have plenty to do in the next few weeks before we head off to our cruise. We are going through all our club member credit cards and we have 10% with expired cards so we just sent out an email asking for updates. Next Friday we will send out an email to all club members announcing the dates of the shipment and also asking for credit card updates so I will be busy copying the updates in to our secure file. Even after all these email requests, we usually get another 10% of bounces after running the cards. We harvested 3.27 tons of second crop which should produce about 200 cases of 2015 Dave's Cuvee. The sugars were very high, some as much as 29%. We added some water for now and in a day or so we need to see what the potential alcohol will be. Some of our old vine Zinfandel harvested a few weeks ago has a little residual sugar left so we have added some special yeast which should help finish the fermentation. Josh and I have a lot of work to do........
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