Neil & Sue Shay
The Waiting Game
Been sitting out on the patio this afternoon, one of the hottest weeks of the summer so far, but it got a little hazy this afternoon...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- May 7
- 11 min
SPACE INVADERS!
Greetings winery friends! Neil sometimes jokes that the Bluebird Hill blog is a monthly publication which comes out eight times a year. ...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Feb 4
- 4 min
Groundhog Day 2022
Neil often mentions that February is one of his favorite months of the year… Not necessarily because the weather is so great, but because...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Jan 2
- 1 min
2021 Year in Review
Click below to download a PDF of our year in review:
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Nov 19, 2021
- 6 min
Roundabout Thanks…
It’s the season for giving thanks, and on our end, it turned out to happen via a somewhat peculiar and roundabout way: this fall we had...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Oct 13, 2021
- 7 min
What a difference a year makes
HARVEST UPDATE: We talk about with winery guests all year long; the fact of the matter is that harvest time is the ‘Super Bowl’ of...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Sep 3, 2021
- 6 min
Play it Forward -- COVID edition
September 2021 Blog Post We’re publishing this blog post to coincide with our ‘Play It Forward’ 2021 charity event. We’ve first offered...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Jul 25, 2021
- 7 min
The Dog Days of Summer
Photo of Willie courtesy of our tasting room guest Julian Saaiman The Dog Days of Summer describes the most oppressive period of summer,...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- May 25, 2021
- 8 min
Happy Birthday to Bluebird Hill Cellars!
Photo courtesy of Steven Polansky We will close the blog with this news, but just to let everyone know what is going on, we are...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Mar 23, 2021
- 8 min
March Madness?
AKA our March 2021 Blog Post It’s a cloudy and cool Sunday afternoon here at Bluebird Hill, and we’re taking some time to catch our...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Jan 27, 2021
- 9 min
A Stirring Story – January 2021
Snow Day - January 26, 2021 While the winery and vineyard work continues with the typical chores of the mid-winter, the big news here...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Dec 16, 2020
- 6 min
Zooming Into 2021!
Since we first went into quarantine back in March, we are grateful that throughout the year, we’ve been able to keep up with so many of...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Nov 22, 2020
- 6 min
Thanksgiving Blessings
Greetings Friends!! We are just trying to manage things, like everyone else in the USA, and we guess, around the whole wide world. We...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Oct 13, 2020
- 8 min
“MY UN-FAVORITE YEAR – PART 2”
About a month ago, in our last blog post, right before Labor Day weekend, we were reflecting on the events of the year. Of course, almost...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Sep 4, 2020
- 6 min
“MY UN-FAVORITE YEAR”
We KNOW the August blog went on and on and on, so we promise to be more concise here. Long story short, we are now about to start our 7th...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Aug 7, 2020
- 11 min
Playing it Forward and Giving Thanks
We decided last month, Neil, Sue and the group of South Benton volunteers that have worked with us the past few years, to postpone the...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Jul 2, 2020
- 5 min
Hedging Our Bets
Either the “New Normal” or “New Abnormal” (as Neil says sometimes now), it’s hard to believe that during this crazy time, we can talk, or...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- May 16, 2020
- 7 min
Welcome Back!
We have to be honest; we received the news of our county being approved for ‘Phase One’ of reopening of businesses with equal parts of...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Apr 17, 2020
- 6 min
First Things First
We are chomping at the bit to tell everyone about the latest goings on at Bluebird Hill, but as the title says, we need to say the most...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Mar 19, 2020
- 7 min
Flattening the Curve
There are a bajillion things we’d love to be starting with, related to wine and vine, but in the forefront now, is this other, ...
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