投稿の詳細: 色々ありました　It's been a busy period.

今日久しぶりに昼間の雨（梅雨だというのに）、で農作業はお休みです。たまっているその他の用事が少し片付きました。

ブログも久しぶりです。前回は6月3日ですから、3週間近くぶりになります。この間、超農繁期で、現在進行形です。簡単に何があったかだけを…。

It rained today whole day. It was only second or third time that it rained during day time in this rainy season! No work in the vineyards and I have done a few things among the stuck of must-do lists. It's first blog in the last three weeks, too. I have been so busy. Anyhow, June-July is the busiest periond of the year. Followings are some of the things that I have done during this period.

その１）房きりです。5.5反分の巨峰畑の房きりに10日間。但し、1枝に3つつく房のうち1房についてやっただけなので、現在残りの房を落としています。これに既に1週間かかっています。あと、3日はかかります。写真はその1場面。今年手伝ってくれたのは、ボーダーの春菜ちゃん、彩ちゃん、みっちゃん、去年に続いて本田さん、友人の栗田さん、親戚の山口さん夫妻、姉の塩入さん夫妻。写真はボーダーの3人です。

Bunch Cutting (or Bunch Trimming). It took us full ten days to do the 55a of my kyoho vineyards even though only one bunch per new shoot was trimmed. Now we are dropping the rest of the undone bunches. It took us already 5 days and it will take another three days at least. Those helped me for the bunch cutting are; Haruna chan, Aya-chan, Mitchan (they are snowboarders), Honda-san, her friend Kurita-san, Mr. and Mrs. Yamaguchi, my sisiter and her husband Shioiri-san. The young people in the picture are snowboarders.

その２）6月8日は酒米の田植えです。今年は某有名人が参加、最近長野県のマスコミに出演が増えている芸能人です（秘密のプロジェクトが進行中）。

On June 8, Wine Rice planting. One undisclosed famous TV personality joined the rice planting secretly. A secret project is going on in our rice paddy.

その３）6月9日は人形博物館で「クラフトとジャズとシードルの夕べ」が催されました。大雨の中、素適な音楽と美味しいシードルプラス巨峰ワインが好評でした。写真はその1コマです。京都や愛知、新潟方面からの参加者もいました。

The third "Jazz and Cidre Night with Craft" was held on June 9. despite of the heavy rain at the evening, the attendants enjoyed the good music, cidre and kyoho wines very much. Some crafts exhibitors joined the event from Kyoto, Nagoya, and Niigata totaling 39 persons/organizations.

その４）サクランボ狩り　今年で3回目になりました。市内のソリマチさんの畑で採り放題、持ち帰り放題をやりました。あちらこちらにおすそ分けして、大好評でした。今年は雨も少なく実割れもなく、樹上完熟サクランボがおいしかった～。

Cherry picking. Thanks to Mr.Sorimachi, the landlord of the cheryy orchard, we enjoyed third cherry picking event. The attendants paid around 2,000yen per person (1,000 yen per child) and picked as many cherries as they want. With little rain in last few days, cherries had no splitting and were in perfect ripe conditions which birds enjoyed very much as well.

その５）房きりが1段落したところで、今年植えたワイン畑の草刈りです。
Mowing grasses in the new vineyards. The young vines are fine. I have to spray against vine mildew.

その６）峰の原オープンペンションフェスタ
私は１、2件のペンションにお邪魔してお昼とコーヒーを頂きました。写真は高原の昼食（そうめんでした）にお呼ばれしたときのものです。下界は暑くてもやはり高原は寒かった。太陽の光が嬉しいお昼ですた。「春蝉」という蝉がかまびすしく鳴いていました。

Minenohara open pension festa. I visited a few pesions and joined the owner families' lunch and coffe. The "so-men" was fine and I found the noisy cicadas' singing. They are so called Spring Cicadas. It was warm in the city down under the mountains while it was rather a bit cold up there but the scenery and the flickering lights through the trees were so beautiful as alwayas.

その７）　第5回ティトカフェワイン会
今回は初めての方も含めて13人が参加。ワインは8種類でした。とっても盛り上がって好評でした。なんでもTSBのさる番組のレギュラーの方も参加者の中にいたようですヨ。写真は今回使ったワインの空瓶の1部です。

The 5th wine gothering was held at Tito Cafe. 13 gutest joined this time on June 16. It was very friendly ambient and everybody enjoyed it very much. After 8 bottles of wines we enjoyed cold beers, too which cooled down our drying throat after "hot" wines and chat. I am afraind that Kee-chan(maitress of the cafe) provided too much food which seemed to go beyond the budget. A regular cast of a TV Shinshu programme joined the event, too. We hope that she will make a great success in the TV world.

その８）ワイン葡萄も大きくなりました
写真は1週間ほど前のメルローの畑と花です。今年は大分畑も増えたので、今月に入って巨峰とあわせて、5日薬剤散布をしています。薬散の朝は3時台から4時起きです。全て健康で高品質の葡萄ができる為の大事な過程です。

Wine vines are fine and growing. New shoots are vigorous and it makes me expect a great harvest this autumn. Merlot vines and flowers are shown in the picture.

その９）本人近影　n-style の浅野さんのバイク（プジョー）を借りてひとっ走りしたときの写真です。キャップをかぶってサングラスをしたら、さて私は誰でしょう。浅野さんにお願いしてカフェの前で記念撮影でした。

Who is this guy? It's me, JPK! With cap and sunglasses, who can imagine it's me. Mmmmm, he is not bad, rather a good looking ... with no face showing. Bike is not mine. In front of N-style shop and Cafe. It's not a grapevine, it's just one of the latest snap shoot of me.