Web Cam Feed at Glenora

[chittychattykathy]

WW- Thanks! Have sent you an email off! Will send you a bottle of wine from a new winery (first vintage) soon, before it gets too hot to mail.

IK- Thanks! So, you are both going deeper into the country or closer to a city? I’d still love to see a photo of the Inn. Rural life will be quite a change—the smallest place I’ve ever lived still had 24,000 people and was 10 miles from 200,000+ people.

Foodie- Thanks! Yes, I will be getting into the wine production side of things, but my main focus for the next year will be writing about what’s going on in the valley-- getting people over for events while still holding two or three smaller events (each month) in Seattle. Prosser is working on funding to build a wine center much like Copia, but as I tell my friends in Seattle without all the Mondavi funding. A lot of work! Location is set and they have hired a PR person to start fundraising. Should be a great center!

Hotsie- Thanks to you too! (You’re all too good!) Tri-Cities will be the closest urban area and there is little likelihood of “sprawl” from that direction...
My new town with a population of 5,000 is one of the larger towns in the area.
& maybe you SHOULD move a little further out, 27 false alarms? Really now, can’t you do better? LOL. Seriously though, would love to be your neighbor if the “smoke” meant dinner was being prepared for me too!!!

For the fun of sharing--
True story here and I swear, not my normal weekend… (yet)
My second cousin lives about eight miles out of (my new) town on 60+ acres. We spent last Saturday, along with two of my guy friends from Seattle (no comments here WW!) having a blast of a day! Started by touring vineyards, talking shop, drinking beer, and BBQ’n salmon. Then moved onto shooting skeet over the Yakima river, target practicing, drinking wines we should not have been opening-- all high-end wines, we could have been drinking franzia at this point! Then building a blazing fire next to the river, at which time we were up to passing around/taking hits off bottles of red Pineau des Charentes and Covey Run ice wine. All this followed up by John and Scott firing off mortars (sp?) over the alfalfa fields (beautiful fireworks show) at one a.m. (We never did ride the tractor or the ATV. Probably for the best.)

I AM HOOKED on country life!!! [img]http://wines.com/ubb2/wink.gif[/img]

BTW- This would not be “our” weekend if we get a Wine Board trip planned for Washington! I am a serious person,
and a very serious wine person…
(Our weekend would be much more fun!)
CCK