Let the "grapevine" take over.
No matter what measurements you used — snowpack depth at Bishop Pass, swell height data from the coastal buoys or the drip rate off the porch roof — everyone was watching the storms, hoping for a blossoming desert or simply to get over the mountains before the Grapevine closed with snow.
My sister Lauren might go a few days without answering her phone or responding to emails, and instead of dealing with it (which would mean waiting for Lauren to call back, admitting there was an issue, and then scheduling a time to talk it over) Mom would get the grapevine going.
Place thin, one-inch nails over the length of the grapevine.
The Tomaini couple arrived first, spreading the word over the carnival grapevine of a place of strawberry fields, orange groves and rivers full of fish, where locals didn't shun show people.
Within an hour of the police officer's knock, she said, "There was about a hundred people here catching mink," friends and neighboring mink farmers and strangers who had heard about the raid over the telephone grapevine.
Grape berry development consists of two successive sigmoidal growth periods separated by a lag phase; from anthesis to ripening it can be divided into three major phases [ 3] with more detailed descriptive designations, known as the modified E-L system, being used to define more precise growth stages over the entire grapevine lifecycle [ 4].
And the grapevine buzzed yesterday over who had made the cut and who had been left out.
The Grapevine — the highway over the Tehachapi Mountains in Southern California — has been shut down, and there was ice on the roadways in North Carolina over the weekend.
The word from the grapevine is that the new owners, who took over in April, are experienced restaurateurs who earned their stripes at the popular East Hampton Point.
