Smoked Sentiments For This Lovely Weekend!!!!

Hilarious Disco!!! (Retired folks, and tea)!

Here's to your fantastic and soft menu, (which probably was just right after dental work - may that heal thus and rapidly), and here is to finding exciting salads, indeed!

I still marvel at how you two grow your own garlic!

For that alone, I think "retirement" is golden!

Happy Friday!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers! - Leah

Happy Saturday Disco!!!

I MEANT to comment yesterday too, about the great vino choices you both had!

It's funny, for decades, I would ONLY drink RED wine, not even touching white at a tasting I conducted, and only only red!

Now I am a White Burgundy devotee and only want some BIG and incredible reds once a year or so! Too funny!

All this to say, tell your wife that I toast her thus, and with WHITE!

OK, off to smoke up today's epic feast!!!

Cheers to you "Retired" folk (that was hysterical) in the north!!! - Leah

Too funny!

While I promise not to go on and on about this subject, I MUST indeed share, that I too, felt (and for DECADES) that "white" wine drinkers must really have a disrespect for wine!

I made more urine jokes, asked at parties, "Why is it WHITE???" and was downright repulsed by the first few seasons of the "Real Housewives" (stopped watching once the fighting and such took over the whole theme practically) but initially, I was turned off not by the mere superficial Botox bupkiss of it all, but by the fact that most of the women were drinking "white wine!"

I did not get it.

Was it a fear to stain their teeth?

I knew not.

When about 42, (will be 44 in just some days), I was ironically on my way - driving - to Massachusetts, to conduct a very lovely wine tasting at a country club.

I looked up briefly en route, in the little car "rearview mirror" and saw a funny line across - squiggly - my nose, (a broken capillary) and was shocked, horrified, stunned, concerned, and so forth. 

In any event, I'd later learn that white wine dilates one's face WAY less than red, and thus breaks less of those!

I'd learn that less sugar, calories, and TONS LESS histamines existed in white - hence sinuses could improv considerably without "stopping all wine."

BUT, I HATED whites and couldn't fathom, even in the name of health and such, drinking it in any way.

Along came White Burgundy.

I was changed forever. I'll drink "some" Champagnes as well, now and then. But WOW, what a very different wake up call and wonderful thing!

(OH, and then I learned that eating snails and oysters once a week, would take care of that skin, without doing pricy doctor things etc., coupled with switching to WHITE wine versus red).

And as for eating snails and oysters once a week and drinking White Burgundy every day?

Well, I'll put that right up there with chores like.."retirement!"

OK, forgive the book length, although it's interesting stuff!

To white wine drinkers therefore! (I break tradition a bit, for REALLY wonderful reds, now and then, but daily keep it mostly to my white now).

Happy weekend!!!

Cheers!!! - Leah 

Thank you Bear!!!! And happy weekend!!!

I'm still musing on your fantastic "Bear Attack" posting! That made my entire Friday indeed!

Cheers to today!!! - Leah

Thank you so much Foamheart!

I do like things done minimalistically too! (Although I like a HUGE meal, as to really eat one big thing a day and then not have too much afterward - little things only then, but for once or twice a month when I proclaim it "LATE NIGHT LAMB CHOP FEVER" and we have to fire up the smoker or grill, and have an ENORMOUS second meal, despite earlier on).

Nonetheless, it's nice to hear from others who enjoy whites!

And Pinot Noir, (which is the grape that makes "Red Burgundy" in France) is a crowdpleaser to many, and so I'm not stunned that you had quite the wonderful evening getting acquainted with it! Smiles.

Such fabulous stories! I always enjoy your scribe!!!

Happy Saturday to you!!! Cheers!!! - Leah

Hah!! (Knuckle47) and your wild cannibal or "cannabis" 70's days - that funky shaped bottle paired alongside! I can picture it now!

And while both Muscat and then also Mateus Rose would be too sweet for me, (I'm one of those weirdos who adores bone-dry wine), your stories - and GRANDMOTHER too - all sounded fantastic!

Such a fun group over here in Wino land! I love hearing about everyone's vino tales! Tremendous stuff!!!

Thank you for sharing!!!

Happy new week!!!

It is both raining AND snowing right now as I do type, although "A day without wine is like a day without sunshine" as said by, Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, and so within some fine hours, a crisp cold White Burgundy should fix all things right up!

Cheers!!!! - Leah