A Gardening Tragedy

Saturday was a traumatic day in the McNiven Clan. Tyler and I were headed out first thing in the morning to work on our different projects when Tyler yelled for me to come outside. We have two big, beautiful grape vine plants, on the Southwest corner of our house. They have been there since long before we moved in, and apparently it wasn't secured with very good wood. One entire plant came crashing down in the middle of the night when the wood trellis finally gave out. It was a horrible sight!






I was pretty upset (my plants are my babies!), but Tyler was great and really took care of things. We made some phonecalls to nurseries and decided to build a real frame for the grapes. We can't transfer them to a new trellis until the end of the summer when the plant goes dormant or it won't survive the trauma. I went to Jackson to play in yet another wedding, so Tyler and my Dad temporarily secured the plant and remaining trellis to the new frame. Hopefully it will survive until the fall!




Thanks for all of your hard work Tyler!!