Pretty safe, as long as someone can reliably operate a blender. They have gone to Margaritaville in their own minds – albeit the experience is different for each one. As long as a Costco is nearby, they are mostly likely set for a week or two and are not really going to bother anyone except their immediate party. Maybe at their primary residence or a second home at the lake. The next group to consider are those encamped on a stay-cation. Best to give those folks a wide berth when you see them. They have a way of letting you know who they are. However, travel is a bit touch and go, whether by air, sea, or land. These folks are mostly harmless and are really just “off the farm” trying to see the sights. The first group is everyone on a va-cation. Now to be fair there are three primary groups to consider. You can learn more about who we are and what we believe by taking our virtual tour! Amalie Robert Estate is open year-round by appointment for vineyard tours and tastings. This includes our two closest airports Eugene (EUG) and Portland (PDX). Keep in mind, wine flies FREE from 32 west coast cities on Alaska Airlines. Dena will confirm your appointment and create a tasting event specific to your party – that’s the way we do it. We are open by appointment this Saturday, September 16th. You can request a tasting appointment with your preferred time. If you want to see what we think is worth seeing on a more regular basis, follow us on Instagram. You can peruse our 20 year history of FLOGs here. An unfinished set of autobiographical stories reflecting our agrarian endeavor, marked by “unfortunate, but not uncommon” experiences and easily referenced by vintage. Irreverently referred to as the FLOG (Farming bLOG), it captures our 20+ year journey of making a winegrowing life in Willamette Valley wine country. Winemaking: The Continuation of Terroir by Other Means. ![]() So, we refill the traps, put them out and try again. After soaking the traps in a 5-gallon bucket of water overnight, we find them to be mostly unresponsive the next day. We have had some trouble in getting them to respond to our rehabilitation efforts. Now that we have about 20 of these tubes teeming full of yellow jackets, our next task is to rehabilitate them and return them to the wild. We have simply accepted it as true and moved on. Why this is, is an exercise left to the reader. Fortunately for us, the person who designed this tube spent some time studying their habits and found they do not exit through the entry holes. ![]() ![]() We find salmon or steelhead scraps simply drive them wild, they can’t help themselves. You simply put a bit of their preferred food inside this well-designed yellow tube, and they are predisposed to enter the tube to eat it. Many people are unaware that yellow jackets are easily captured in the wild. What sort of harvest practice produces this result? Are they hand harvested or by machine? And furthermore, what do you do with them after you harvest them? Now, you may be asking yourself how do we get them in there. As this video clearly shows, we have been able to isolate these social wasps within this yellow tube. It is a feature, not a bug, of the agrarian endeavor. ![]() In response, we have begun the prerequisite yellow jacket harvest. Click to view the prerequisite yellow jacket harvest (video).
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