Neil & Sue Shay
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 21, 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 12, 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 3, 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 6, 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 15, 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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Neil & Sue Shay
- Dec 26, 2019
- 4 min
2019 Year in Review
Thanksgiving is gone, and now the December holidays are here and we’re getting ready for the New Year, so for all those out there, this...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Nov 22, 2019
- 10 min
Don’t Mess With Mother Nature!
In our last blog, back in September, we talked about getting ready for harvest. The beautiful summer weather continued into...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Sep 24, 2019
- 5 min
Sharpening Our Saws
It’s been said that you cannot cut wood effectively if all you do is cut wood, there needs to be some time sitting back and sharpening...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Jun 24, 2019
- 6 min
Happy Holidays?
Certainly not the yuletide holiday season, but the winery season in the Willamette Valley unofficially kicks off for the summer over the...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- May 8, 2019
- 4 min
Satisfying Work
Vineyard Update: We skipped our April blog, and it’s apparently clear if you look at the picture posted with our March blog post versus...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Mar 4, 2019
- 4 min
The Weather Outside....
Well.... not exactly ‘frightful’, as the song goes, but after getting home a week ago yesterday from the Newport Seafood and Wine...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Dec 17, 2018
- 5 min
2018 Wrap Up
With the official start of winter at hand, we’re realizing that it’s been too long since we posted about the goings on here at Bluebird...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Oct 14, 2018
- 4 min
2018 Harvest Update!
After months and months of waiting, the harvest exploded into action at Bluebird Hill on September 22 as a crew of eager pickers set out...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Aug 31, 2018
- 5 min
Harvest is coming!
We feel like we say this with nearly every blog post, but just cannot believe it is already two months since our last post. We are on...
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Neil & Sue Shay
- Jul 5, 2018
- 6 min
In the Summertime
Vineyard: After bud break seven weeks ago, we’ve had a pretty moderate season thus far, not too hot and not too cold! Granted, all of...
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