Final touch

Last month, the weekend of October 22nd Chris had broken a new Otto family record...
He finished a building project in only ONE weekend.  The project was a multi-purpose pergola; to provide protection and shade for the Brahmas in their new home, a needed structure for my black berries that are running wild and a climbing place for the Scuppernong we want to add to the farm.

Time passed, life got busy (common theme lately) and I figured we'd missed the window to buy our Scuppernogs (or as Chris likes to call them our "grape vines").  Today, we were all graving some Farmer Market cookies and therefore knowing the trip wouldn't be in vain we headed out to see if we might still find some plants.  As it turned out, we got both cookies and four beautiful "grape vines" (varieties Tara and Carlos) at a discount to boot.  As rain is expected tonight we got them in the ground right away.  They are the final touch our little pergola needed, don't you think?  The girls have done a good job turning the soil, so hopefully we will have a bumper crop next year.

On an aside, we headed out to a Triangle Youth Symphony Concert right after we got them in the ground (and washed our hands of course).  We wanted to check out TYSS before Lance auditions for them in the summer.  As we were standing in line to buy tickets, a lady walked up to me and gave me six awesome seats for free.  I told the family that meant we must be here for a reason.  Not sure what the reason was but all we did really enjoy the concert.  That was due in part to the fact that the kids knew nearly all the songs played.  They are becoming quite the classical aficionados.   We're excited about possibility of the next time we go seeing Lance on stage.