home at last

I got home late last night and am so glad to be home !! had a nice dinner made by brian and then curled up in front on the wood stove with the dog... It was a good trip and the wine adventure continues have some funny tasting stories about taking wine around to restaurants what a roller coaster ride that is... more on that when I get a moment to write -

I love my birthday present from Brian !!



what I don't love so much is the fact that is 7 count 'em 7 degrees this morning when we woke up! BURRRRR

Thank you one and all!!

I got soo many happy b-day wishes on the cell and FB it really made my day THANK YOU!!! And big thanks to Brian who allowed me to guess my b-day gifts over the phone (I'm in CA) and for those who know me know I LOVE guessing!! so brian gave me a plow for my team and a pair of work boots I love my practical husband (truth be told to him the plow is VERY impractical despite how it seems!) and my bff gave me a great evening and this lovleyness among other things!! thanks to all -- xxooo c

More chicken paintings!

Ask and you shall receive!! only one from the last batch is left -

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From the weekend!

This was at the end of a farm tour with this little munchkin - taken by her dad.. I love this part of what we do : ) makes it so much fun to share!!

Thanks to all who came!

We had a great thanksgiving weekend thanks to all those who came to visit us at the farm!

Big Thanks to all of you that took wine home!
If you missed us this year here are a few highlights!!

Brian's home made bread to go with the Fresh smoked bacon!


We made a nice lunch Sunday as it was a bit more mellow



and Our friend Ben came over to help out and at one point he and Brian headed up to the woods and came back with these beauties!!



FINALLY some Chanterelles from our woods! I can't tell you how excited I am about this!!!

oh and big table farm t-shirts are now available !!! two colors and all printed locally with earth conscious printing and on super nice quality cotton! (that's Josephine on the back ; )

Thansgiving weekend day one

Holy cow !! - Thanks to everyone who came out. Many cases left in your arms thank you one and all who came to visit - The pork belly that came out of the smoker was amazing - thank you brian! and there will be more tomorrow so if you are deliberating what to do with your weekend - come out to the farm try some pinot and pork and go home with some bottled smiles for later enjoyment!



The icing on the day for me was in addition to some wonderful wine appreciators there were some folks who had visited at open studios and came back for wine - and one particular guest came back bearing a gift - this little book she made! It's this little egg sized book that is incredibly wonderful and whimsical she made it from a card that had my chicken paintings on it soo creative... - wow amazing thank you Peg.!! I love it!!! THANK YOU!

Thankgiving weekend on the farm -

Come out to the Farm this weekend!

We are officially participating in the Thanksgiving wine weekend and we are open to the public!

Friday Saturday & Sunday 11 - 5pm we will have our 2006 Syrah and both 2008 Pinots available to taste and if you like them to purchase!

there's a great winery map here

we've gotten some gravel delivered to try to keep you all out of the mud and we've even swept the driveway! Brian's gonna fire up the smoker and I think I spied some pork belly - and we are crossing our fingers for some dry weather!




The house should be spruced up and I'll even have some art available along with new chicken paintings : ) hope to see you this weekend - Clare and Brian


available - 6"

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Teamwork

They call it a team for a reason -- this morning I went over to Duane's to work with the boys we are getting to the end of their time there and they will be coming home in the next few days - So I went over early this morning to clean their stall and was half waiting for the weather to clear - at some point it was 'clear' that working with the boys was more important than staying dry... so Duane and I harnessed - there was very little talking now having worked with under his tutelage for quite while both with his horses and mine. I hooked up the boys and as we headed down the gravel road the rain started and then after a little bit it started to hail - hail that was small enough it simply dried out the rain for a bit - I was grinning and more content than I can say. We continued on and went to the end fo the road, turned around and started heading back. It was then that I felt a deep connection with these two horses like I hadn't felt before we were all working together the three of us each so different but working in concert - 'special' is the only word I can use to try to explain the experience - I started to cry with happiness and pleasure it was raining and I was crying... driving the horses down the sweet wet gravel drive all of us listening to eachother woven together. Now I understand why they call it a team.

Wine this weekend!!

Come on out and taste our wine at Press wine bar in Dundee -
We'll be pouring our syrah and both pinots - 11-4pm Sat and Sun.

http://www.innatredhills.com/press_wine_bar.html

1410 N. Hwy 99W
Dundee, Oregon 97115
Press, A Wine Bar: 503-538-7989

Some great beef

We had a great meal at Ned Lud tonight hosted by Slow Food - It featured the beef prepared a number of ways by the genius of Jason and Ben - nice work gentleman - I got to meet some pretty awesome women ranchers from eastern OR check out there ranches and if you are local to portland you may want to give there beef a try it's pretty freggin good and they are all doing grass fed and finished beef and on farm slaughter!! nice work ladies...

Cory Carman of carman ranch
Liza Jane of 6ranch
and Jill McClaran of Mcclaran Ranch



Liza Jane's cattle