My Message On Next Door, Country Life.

We live behind 2 wineries in Temecula, and we have an acre of Cabernet Franc that we planted in 2004. We made and enjoyed our own red wines from 1/4 of our own grapes. We hire a vineyard maintenance person and we have a winemaker friend that helped us pick, crush and make the wines which we split 1/2 and 1/2.  We have few winemakers from 2 amateur wine clubs who also buy the rest of the grapes from us. They pick their own grapes. We charge less than the going price in the market and we have good vines, so they come back each year.  We have the drip system for the vines. We also have few citrus trees, Apples, Pomegranate, Peach, Pear, several  Olive trees, and a large herb garden. 

We used to have a 21 acres avocado grove in De Luz but we sold it in 2014.
I miss having our own Avo fruits so I tried to grow Avocado here and they all died from being too hot or too cold. I am trying to grow Cherimoya tree now ( my fingers crossed).  The Citrus trees are doing well but we do not have too many fruits from the fruit trees. When we lived in a track home up in the SF Bay Area we had 2 Apple, 2 Plum trees, and few Citrus trees. We used to have at least 20 grocery size bags of fruits almost every year. We shared them with our neighbors and office co-workers. 

I wish I have tried to grow Longan and Lychee trees here. I saw the orchards in Fallbrook with these trees and they have lots of fruits on them!!!
There is a Pistachio orchard right near our home but it is not maintained and the poor trees are not doing well. Many years ago, they were producing well and I saw them picked the fruits in the fall.

Holidays And The Hustle and Bustle...

Holiday Blues.
WOW, I just saw this that I didn't post... OK... Posting it now. I discovered that this is not the best time to go through all your old STUFF inorder to sorting things out. Rummaging through the boxes: What to keep, What to get rid of, What to do with the rest? Oh no I found old bank statements, stock portfolios, old time cards, paycheck stubs and traveling memorabilia & souvenirs etc..

The worst of all is that seeing all these things reminding me of another time, another previous rich life I was living. Not obsessed with money but it is sad what I used to have and now they are all just a memory, a dream not realized (again)

It is sad, isn't it? I will have to think things over. Writing this all down already made me feel a little better.