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- Innkeeper - 05-31-2004
Hope you all had a great weekend, and will be watching or parading today, before the final grilling of the weekend. Let's not forget to remember.
- tandkvd - 05-31-2004
We finaly had some rain today. About 1.5 hours of a good slow steady rain. It did however, rain out our Memorial Day Parade.
The family will be over in a couple hours for a cookout. I'll be grillin chicken. Some with a tereyaki marinade and the rest with a white wine and herb marinade.
I be opening Peperwood Grove PN, and have Margaritas for the non-wine drinkers and lemonade for the kids.
And a great big THANKS to all the veterans out there!
- hotwine - 05-31-2004
Had a great weekend, with the wedding of our one & only daughter to a fine young buck in the courtyard of a downtown hotel. We had moved down there for the rehearsal Saturday and stayed until this afternoon, to minimize the running around (except for coming back out to go to church yesterday). It went off very well indeed, except for the oppressive heat and humidity. (Truck is showing 102F right now, and heard report that the heat index is 113, so it was close to those numbers last night.) Only had to bark at the staff a couple of times.... once for serving me an oxidized remnant of Col. Crest Cab/Merlot left over from someone else's affair at least two days earlier, another for losing one of my six room reservations. Grr. But it would definitely have been cheaper if they had taken my bribery offer and run off to Lost Wages.
Remembering the many names on the Wall, and those who came before them, and those who have fallen since. We can only be grateful and remember them and thank their families for their sacrifice.
- Thomas - 05-31-2004
tand...start the kids off not with lemonade but with a good clean glass of wine cut with water. That's the recipe that works.
My brother-in-law is off to Normandy to write some articles for his boss, USA Today, about the invasion--his dad, my father-in-law, was on the Stars and Stripes and he was personal information specialist to Dwight D. He was on the invasion, along with Andy Rooney who is slated to meet up with my b-in-law over there.
Remembering all the war dead is an imperative--trying to do something real to stop wars would be a good idea too.
Me, I try to forget my time in service; never was any good at soldiering...
- winoweenie - 05-31-2004
A great big " Attaboy Hotsie ". Looks like there was only a few minor ouchies. Give my best to the newlyweds and I'll say a small reverence for them while observing the past heros. WW
- hotwine - 05-31-2004
Thankee Herr Weener. New son-in-law is showing an interest in wines, so there's hope. The females in the family are untrainable.
- Bucko - 05-31-2004
Spring house cleaning here. She who must be obeyed worked me like a plow horse.......
- Innkeeper - 06-01-2004
We finished the weekend last night with grilled, rubbed pork chops served in a tangy (versus spicy-hot) BBQ sauce, and salad. Washed it down with a bottle of Phil Staley's Coat of the Roan. All, very nice.
- Georgie - 06-01-2004
I had a really nice weekend, even though I had to start the summer hotel job. We had perfectly heavenly weather on Sat. and Sun. Went to some teacher friends' house for their annual "countdown to summer vacation" barbecue. I drank a strawberry margarita, so nothing to report. Ahhh June 1st! It's a beautiful thing! Twelve school days to go!
- winoweenie - 06-01-2004
But Who's Counting?ww [img]http://wines.com/ubb2/wink.gif[/img]
- wondersofwine - 06-01-2004
I attended a memorial service yesterday at USASOC headquarters plaza. Was looking at the names of Special Forces soldiers on the memorial wall (I remember Corporal Mark Bibby visiting the library before deploying to Iraq--he was a Civil Affairs soldier who volunteered to go as a reservist). Got caught on camera by the ABC station out of Durham, NC so saw myself on the 5:30 and 6:00 news casts.
- dananne - 06-01-2004
Glad to hear everyone seemed to have nice and enjoyable weekends. Our last day of school was Friday, so Anne and I celebrated with a NV Perrier Jouet Grand Brut. I've heard that their quality has gone downhill for some years, but we enjoyed it. Nice, tiny bubbles and subtle flavors. We then moved to a Gruet Brut, which we enjoyed as we always do. Bigger bubbles and bigger flavors. Not sure which we preferred. On Sat., we had two bottles of 2001 Las Rocas de San Alejandro (the old vines one, not the '02 which we've heard is damn yummy, too). Simply awesome, and the best sub $15 wine we've had -- perhaps ever. On Sunday, we popped a Bonny Doon Ca del Solo Malvasia Bianca, which was nice, as always, and then topped it off with a Mionetto Prosecco. It was simple, but tasty. Got some interesting banana notes from it. Last night, Anne took a break from the vino with the work week starting again, so I took out a Shooting Star Lemburger from Wash St. Not much to speak of, though with some red and black fruits and some funkiness. It was my first taste of Lemburger, so I don't know if the funkiness was typical of the grape. We ate most meals out, avoiding the cooking routine. I've got the week off, then will start in the summer camp for 4, 5 and 6 year-olds. I'll try some more interesting wines this week, hopefully, and post as appropriate.