Interesting Progress

The turkeys are breeding; the landscaping is being planted; the wine library is ready to be stocked with lovely, well-aged wines.

Here the toms are all doing their mating dance while being totally ignored by the hens:

The patio area is moving forward quickly. Planting is almost complete, & we hope to have pavers in place in the flat area beneath the oak within 2 or 3 weeks, which in turn will provide you with a serene place to sit while contemplating the larger meaning of life . . . glass in hand of course. Though everything finally seems to be coming together, I must admit to lying awake during the dark hours of the night, my mind’s eye filled with bleak visions of sex-addled turkeys uprooting every newly planted young shoot & stem:

 

As for the Wine Library, here is a shot looking down the hall towards the tasting area:

 

Each of the shelf “bins” seen in the above photo will hold roughly 48 bottles, & there are 190 bins, which means that (with some adjustment for smaller corner bins & consideration for the vagaries of some deviously sized bottles) there is storage for 9,637 bottles in the Library.

And here is a view of a part of the Library tasting area with our tasting table in the foreground. I think that the table will seat 10. This is all hard to envision without a wide-angle lens to capture this room in its entirety: