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[Bruno28]

The guy with the big log....it's a stupid Scottish thing.

I find that oaked wines give me a headache and most chardonnay in the UK is heavily oaked. I have the same problem with heavily oaked reds but there seems to be more choice of reds that are lighter on the oak.

I hope you will be posting regular wine recommendations to educate my palate. I like to fork out for a bit of luxury now and then!

[DrBee]

Mimi - Lise is right - we've had some pretty funny moments on here and it's worth it to dabble around and see what you stumble in to. Bring snacks, you might get lost for a while.


I just picked up my new contact lenses - I CAN SEE! They are way thicker than the last brand, but this time the prescription is correct and actually accounts for my astigmatism. The computer screen and my children are not blurry. Yippee!

FishJr is liking school! She says it's "play class" though because she hasn't learned anything yet. We feared this. I pointed out to her that she learned to draw a kitty cat today. She wants to learn more math and spelling. Off to the store to get some more workbooks. She was the "leader" today - apparently she did very well!

[Nanci]

An evil friend of BF's that's a flight attendent sent us Roomboterstroopwafels from Amsterdam. As you would expect from a city where hash is legal, I cannot stop eating them. Picture a round cookie/wafer, with indentations like a waffle, with butter and maple syrup built in. Yup.

The good news is, the chicken farfale with sun dried tomatoes for dinner was also delicious, as was the Cline Big Red Truck wine. Extremely tannic, but also very fruity. Can't taste the alcohol. Perfect. I logged it as tasting like chocolate cherries black pepper black currant.

[Nanci]

Bruno, I could post recommendations, but do you get much American wine? That's mostly what I drink.

[mimitabby]

I'm afraid if i read all 200 pages, I will know too much about all of you guys. I did do some random dives in. I must say I'm impressed, there is a bit of coherence here.

So I will announce that i am getting that pair of tiger striped shorts that's been on sale on TE for all this time. I thought i was a medium, but i measured myself and i fit the small (which was the biggest size left.) those will be fun to wear.


When work is slow (which it is for me 1/2 the time) I do need lots of reading material...

[chickwhorips]

just got back from doing berry surveys. not alot of berries, no bears either, but i did see alot of bear poop for a certain someone that was REALLY mushy.

the day actually turned out good. though now i'm exausted from hiking around the tundra all day. you would never guess how hard it is to find a marker in the tundra, even with a gps and compass.

[DebW]

just got back from doing berry surveys. not alot of berries, no bears either, but i did see alot of bear poop for a certain someone that was REALLY mushy.

the day actually turned out good. though now i'm exausted from hiking around the tundra all day. you would never guess how hard it is to find a marker in the tundra, even with a gps and compass.

CWR, sounds like a cool job if you can go tromping through the tundra all day. I hope you got to eat some of the berries you found.

[Brina]

An evil friend of BF's that's a flight attendent sent us Roomboterstroopwafels from Amsterdam. As you would expect from a city where hash is legal, I cannot stop eating them. Picture a round cookie/wafer, with indentations like a waffle, with butter and maple syrup built in. Yup.

ooooohhhh, stroopwafels are the greatest cookies on earth.. i used to work for a dutch bank and whenever anybody from the chicago office had to go to holland they would have to bring them back for the entire office. I miss them so. The one available in the US are always made with margerine (gotta be the real butter ones), or like the ones at whole food, they mess with perfection and add like maple syrup. not that I dislike maple syrup, but it has no place in a stroopwafel.

[LynneK]

Shouldn't there be a search function on this thread, so us latecomers can cheat on the test ? Oh wait, there it is, right on the button up there ... test problem solved!

Cline Big Red, YUM! That's one of our house wines. I certainly didn't expect to find wine chat to accompany tri chat, so what a pleasant surprise.

Some of you were mentioning recently that you like fruity whites. We recently had a delicious bottle of Alexander Valley Vineyards New Gewurz 2005. Gewurztraminer from the Alexander Valley in Sonoma County, CA. Foretaste was peaches and honeysuckle, aftertaste was spicy, kinda like ginger beer. Had a nice malic acid fizziness to the texture. YUM! And to make it even better, I think we paid $8 for it at World Market.

[chickwhorips]

fish i'm glad fishjr is liking school so much. hopefully it keeps up like that and that she wants homework.

[Brina]

FishJr is liking school! She says it's "play class" though because she hasn't learned anything yet. We feared this. I pointed out to her that she learned to draw a kitty cat today. She wants to learn more math and spelling. Off to the store to get some more workbooks. She was the "leader" today - apparently she did very well!

the little girls of today truely are going to rule the world one day.


2nd day of Kindergarten one of my twins came home grumpy. i asked his what was the matter and he told me, "they haven't taught us to read yet. you said they were going to teach us to read in kindergarten!"