Fatigue

There's a point where fatigue sets in, and all you can think about is crawling into bed, and I'm pretty much there right now.  We had a pretty good morning of bottling, after several starts and stops, little adjustments, etc. we finally got rolling.  Luckily there was a bit of a cloud cover so we weren't frying until about 10:30.  The temps here in southern France are flirting with 100 degrees, so at 11:30 when we finished the first vat, we decided to break for lunch, and call it a day.  No reason to risk damaging the wine when we still have the bottler booked for tomorrow and we can start much earlier since everything is all set up and ready to go. 

One of the things I often marvel at is the generous attitudes of our friends and family.  So many people came out to help, and stayed the whole morning, and even volunteered to come back tomorrow, amazing.  We counted, and really to run smoothly, we need 10 people to man the bottling line, stack the cases into the truck, drive them around to the front of the house, unload them and stack them on pallets.  Amazingly enough, we came up with those 10 people, even in the middle of summer when everyone here is on vacation.  Not to mention, Bri and Jenn who drove down from Switzerland just to come help us, and it was Jenn's 40th birthday today! How lucky were we?!

So, many many many thanks to all of our dear dear friends who came out today! Including; Viviane, Jean-Marc, Sylvain, Jean-Paul, Alison, Nick, Denis, Beatrice, another Denis, Bri and Jenn, and to all the others who are coming tomorrow morning to finish the job!