I attended a minortiy supplier trade show at the Metro Toronto Convention Center first of the month... and the little yellow truck got to ride in an elevator for the first time...
The show had some promise... but it was largely aimed at people who want to mass market their product or service. Nothing wrong with that...but I find when you move to the mass market, you end up compromising your product as you try to meet the demands of your big customers... Its not something I feel comfortable doing. We brought out the Champagne fountain filled with cranberry juice... an I put on a suit... its all part of the deal...
Many of the birds and animals are back. We had a dozen or so robins, redwing black birds, and yesterday I heard the pheobie... an insect eater...a very good sign of spring. I saw this little guy out on the ice of one of the fields. The otters are in the irrigation ponds. It appears they are eating frogs... and there are some water fowl flying through.
Most of the ice is off the fields. Early next week we will hold the spring melt to flood all fields until temperatures are warm enough to protect the vine with the irrigation system.
