Tonight, Grahams and I tried the Sebastiani 2001 Zinfandel with our tea. I think we can safely assume that Sebastiani is a reliable source for excellent plonk for a reasonable price. We've got a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon from another vineyard in Sonoma County - we've a sneaking suspicion that the soil in Sonoma County must be rather good, as both the Sebastianis we've tried were from their Sonoma County line and are very good, therefore, we're hoping other vineyards in the area have equally exquisite wines for us to enjoy.
Thursday was spent with my artsy friend, Wendy and her two boys, Owen and Quinn. She drove up (down? over?) from Efland and we got together for lunch prior to me having to get some "day job" work done and she & boys going to Hobby Lobby for some shopping. I'd have loved to go, but I had too much to do! Next time, Wendy! She worried that the dark side had infected the kids, but they really weren't so bad! I've been around less-well-behaved kids - where promises of consequences for bad behaviour were never followed through and the kid knew it and just kept right on acting badly. This was a kid even older than Wendy's who should have known (or been taught) better long ago! I also got to see some of her wonderful Faerie Art Dolls up close (they're on her website - go take a look!) and "Epona" is now keeping watch over all my artsy endeavours.
The "Interesting Reads" section has gone missing from my Blogroll...some issue from last week at the Blogrolling site is the culprit, but while their latest updates say "everything's back to normal", it obviously isn't. The "Interesting Reads" section doesn't seem to exist in my Blogroll control panel and all of the links I'd stored there are gone, too. I'm not very pleased, I must say. I've bloody paid for the "Gold" service, and have had no response to my service enquiry as of yet, and no sign of my links!
I may sound like a Limey, but I'm still an American! Twice in the past couple of weeks I've been asked what part of England I'm from. Wendy remarked on my verbal transformation on Thursday, as well. With an Englishman in the house, I've been exposed to and have obviously absorbed certain inflections and dialect patterns. Now I've got a bit of that Linda McCartney way of speaking, or a bit of "haff and hahhf" about me. My chiropractor has teased me about it since I first came out with a "me back's been much better recently" - about three years ago. Hey, any time I can be a source of amusement.... :P
Happy 4th to those celebrating. We're planning a quiet day and an equally quiet evening - hoping we can get a good view of the Oak Hollow Lake fireworks display without having to venture past our own driveway!
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Have you taken a ride out to Raffildini Vineyards up 421 (past the 77 underpass)? It is a beautiful place and the wines are fantastic. The drive out there is nice too.
No, we've not tried them yet - but I think we'll start sampling more of the local wines! Childress Vineyards is on the list to try, as well. We had a local wine a few months ago - I don't remember the vineyard, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the Raffaldini - and it wasn't very good...we wound up pouring it down the drain! We're not against the local varieties (we like several of the Biltmore wines), but I think we'll start doing tastings before we put out the quids for some of them!