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To: Rusty0604

GENERATIONS of grape growers will suffer the loss.

How Long Does It Take for Grape Vines to Produce Grapes?
https://www.hunker.com/12540066/how-long-does-it-take-for-grape-vines-to-produce-grapes


7 posted on 10/09/2017 1:39:24 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: stars & stripes forever

You’re right, it will be years. My grandmother owned a vinyard when I was a kid.


11 posted on 10/09/2017 2:17:56 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: stars & stripes forever

When I was in South Korea - 1960s - I had a small Conversational English class some locals asked me to do. We always met in the evenings after their work - at a pharmaceutical factory - and after my military duties.

Sometimes we’d do a meal or some other leisure activity after, or instead of, class (while they would use the occasion to still practice their English with me).

On one occasion we went to a local grape vineyard. The proprietor had platforms taller than the average person, with ladders up to them. We sat as a group picnic style on the platform and employees would bring us baskets of just picked and washed grapes.

It got dark and they had torches around the platform and scattered around the vineyard. Pitch black other than the stars and the torches, with wonderful delicious fresh grapes and really good company. A night I’ve never forgotten.


14 posted on 10/09/2017 3:13:56 PM PDT by Wuli
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