“Bridget announced. “That’s when the ancient Romans held their spring festival to honor Venus, the goddess of the fruit. They called it venalia prima. The blessing of the vines. So I think that’s when we should hold our blessing. On April twenty-third.” Her words were a little choppy with exertion as she struggled to wind a length of wire cable tightly around a clamp on a support post. They were all, at that moment, laboring in the vineyard among the vines that were waiting to be blessed. Do...minic and Noah worked a row or so ahead of them, digging post holes and pounding uprights into the ground. It was Cici’s and Bridget’s job to string and tighten the wire between the posts while Lindsay dug the holes and carefully placed the new vines in the ground. It was dirty, sweaty, back breaking work, but on this glorious spring day, it was also a labor of love. Lindsay straightened up now, arching a pain out of her back, and said, “I don’t know, Bridge, seems to me these vines are already blessed enough with my blood, sweat, and tears.”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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