About 35 hours a-piece into this (so, 105 hours cumulative) and Marty comes out dry-walling hell to inspect what Michael and Paolo are up to. I'd like to say what Michael and Paolo have achieved, but "achieve" suggests something productive.
Look carefully at his expression. Is it one of bemusement or mild satisfaction or incredulity or paternalistic tolerance displayed by the master to his erstwhile apprentice? At least he's not gesticulating with that pry-bar in his right hand. At least he's not turning red, which is more than could be said for Paolo on Friday night after spraying the cieling a brownish color.
This is what Marty sees. Paolo waving a spray wand thing covering the blue paint with a white primer, and Michael's legs. Michael holds a board where cieling meets wall to prevent the previous night's cieling work getting ruined.
Paolo is sporting a Captian Scarlet look, excpet he's more Captain Harlequin. Apologies to Super-marionation and the Captain Scarlet series.
See Michael. See Michael with the board. Michael is happy. See Michael smile.
Michael is happy that he need never buy white socks again now that Paolo has kindly sprayed a pair on him.
Happy Michael. Helpful Paolo.
Some of the windows beyond where we were paitning. This is the old dance floor - our primary fermentation area.
The same area, but this time with benefit of flash.
The tasting area before painting. There will be different areas here for relaxation and games and tasting wine.
View into the dance floor/primary fermentation area fromt he barrel room.
Michael is on the ladder.
One wall in the barrel room. The wall is damp so it is a natural source of hydration for keeping the barrels from drying out and their moisture up so they stop drinking the wine.
Barrel room. Event Room.
Dance area/primary fermentation.
Note the professional sound system that's installed in the air. A second set of the same speakers are at the opposite end. The sound hooks ups etc are on the stage.
License transfer
On April 28 we sent in our request to transfer the license for the winery to the new premises.
We also have to transfer our bond too, which means when our transfer request is accepted we have 60 days to move our current inventory of wine or pay the excise due upon it. Since we cannot move the barrels, we will pay in advance the excise on them. The bottled wine will be transferred to the new place and b eplaced under its bond so we will not pay in advance its excise duty.
Today we should have the State's application to transfer the State licenses to the new premises sent off too.
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