Bottles

Never thought I'd be so glad to see 11,500 bottles behind my house.  They were supposed to be delivered yesterday, but the salesperson called and said there was a problem with the truck and that they weren't going to make it.  I swear I am cursed when it comes to bottles.  Her solution was to deliver the same color bottles, but a lower quality instead this morning.  No, thank you.  I hate it when I drink a bottle of wine and the glass is really thin, looks like the winery was cutting corners, and for me it's important that our wine is well presented.  So, I said what about another color, the one called  "feuille morte" of dead leaf.  It's the classic greenish-brown bottle that you see for many wines.  I had wanted the color they call antique, which is a richer brown, but was willing to go with the green if we could have a higher quality, thicker bottle.  In the end you really can't tell the difference in color when the bottle is full, only once it's been opened. Luckily, they had enough to deliver to us, and they did so at 7:45 this morning.  Yippee!  Now everything is set for tomorrow.  The man who does the bottling is arriving this afternoon to set everything up so that we can get an early start tomorrow morning.  It is very hot here so we want to take advantage of the lower temps and get everything done we can as early as we can.  We've got tarps to hang over the street so that we can keep it as cool as possible back there, and our neighbors across the street went on vacation, so we have full access to their pool in order to cool off. Thank goodness.  I'll let you know how it goes..... if I'm still in one piece.