“Why does everybody stand up and sing ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’ when they’re already there?” –Larry Anderson (MLB pitcher for White Sox and Brewers, keen observer of life) My most recent trip to an MLB field was May 2014 when I took a party bus to San Francisco to watch the Giants…
Wine Wednesday: Aug. 27, 2015
“Wine to me is passion. It’s family and friends. It’s warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It’s culture. It’s the essence of civilization and the art of living.” –Robert Mondavi (winemaker, philanthropist, torchbearer)
Notes on Terroir
corkshrewd: An informative, albeit technical explanation of terroir, a key concept in understanding and appreciating good wine. I dig this stuff. -forté
Wine Wednesday: Aug. 5, 2015
“There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.” –Bette Davis (actor, author, did it the hard way)
Paradise
theenglishcrux: Paradise Paradise – “a walled-in garden” (ave.) From an Iranian language called Avestan, a “pairidaēza” was an enclosed garden for royalty. Surely still a modern-day definition match for many, minus the royalty bit. And to me, being in the garden is paradise. -forté
Wine Camp: Racking the 2014
A bit of summer racking. Hello 2014 Syrah.
Wine Wednesday: July 29, 2015
“Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle of wine, a good book, and a good friend.” –Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (aka Molière, satirist, actor, moustachioed man)
My Beloved’s Birthday
One of my first harvest Marketmore cukes joined the antipasto for the my beloved’s birthday dinner (plus Tony Packo’s sweet hot Brittany tomatoes). I brought in a bit more Toledo with Sofo’s Marinara over Mark’s MeatBalls alongside my first attempt at grilled romaine for the Caeser. This paired well with a bottle of Lone Wolf…
Cucumber Harvest
First harvest! After a close call with the deer and turkeys, the cukes are producing. #gettingmygardenon #pickleme
Amateur – “lover” (fr.)
Amateur Amateur – “lover” (fr.) From French “amator” (lover) – an amateur is someone who engages in an activity for the love of it rather than the money. from theenglishcrux: Pretty much why I do most things. Perhaps that’s why I am broke. –forté
Wine Wednesday: July 22, 2015
“Wine is bottled poetry.” –Robert Louis Stevenson (author, travel writer, California wine aficionado) [and the only poetry I like –forté]
Yikes, is that a hat?
“Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.” ―Charlotte Perkins Gilman, If I Were a Man On Saturday, I walked into our local French bakery. I usually just pop in, order a café au lait and a waist-killing pastry, then…
Living Life Forté 