Heading Home

On Friday morning we said good-bye to Pastor Bob and Susan. We were heading once again for Elmira, New York, planning to arrive in time to join Nancy and Dale for their typical Friday fish dinner at their favorite local restaurant. We missed a couple of turns, but we made it in time.

The next morning we were heading for New York's wine region by Lake Seneca to pick Concord grapes.When we passed this waterfalls, I knew we were on the right road.

The water runs under the road and keeps on dropping until it reaches the lake (see the picture above).

I knew I'd be making some grape jelly, but mostly I wanted to can a lot of grape nectar! Last fall Margery and I made nectar for the first time, and we didn't make nearly enough.

With Bob's help, I was able to bring home 86 pounds of beautiful Concord grapes!

It took a week to process all of them and I was glad Griffin took a bunch to eat each evening. I'm loving the nectar, but I thought I'd never get to the end of all those grapes!

There was still a little space in the car so we stopped a ways up the road to buy Cabin Fever and Red Cat wine. One fellow who was at the winery with a bus tour saw all the grapes when I opened the car door to put the wine bottles in the back. He asked where we had gotten the grapes. Even though the UPICK vineyard was just down the road, he knew the bus he was with would never stop there and begged for a small bunch of grapes to eat. I didn't have the heart to turn him down, lucky fella.