The Vines Are Here

My husband was working in the vineyard on Monday and saw a FedEx truck coming towards him. He was very perplexed at first until he realized that those were our vines! The information that was provided by our vine purveyor (who shall remain nameless) was that our shipment would be coming by UPS. Even when asked, they failed to provide us with a tracking number and not knowing when (and if at all) our vines were shipped, we crossed our fingers and hoped that it would show up on Wednesday, today.
But no, here it was. My husband scrambled to contact our neighbor, Stonington Seafood Harvesters to see if we could borrow their refrigerated truck on short notice, and they were very accommodating. At the end of the day, my husband using his tractor and forks lifted the 9 large boxes of vines into the truck.

We have to get into gear: we still have holes to clean, alleys to mow, water for soaking the vines, vine roots to cut, pencil rods to attach to the fruiting wire, etc., to prepare for the weekend planting party.