Beautiful picture and beautiful daughter Ms - you must be really proud!!
Just spent the last 2 days giving the garden its first overhaul since winter - needless to say im torn to shreds and knackered!! Who invented nature? Id like to give them a piece of my mind if I could spare it!!
You'd be surprised by the quality of some of those newer wines sold in those tetra packs. There's still such a stigma against twist-off caps and wine in boxes, but some of them really aren't bad at all.
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
True as that may be, it's mostly a stigma at this point. The bottle is little more than a delivery conduit, as most wines are not sold to be aged at this point anyway. I participated in a blind tasting of a type I wish I could remember the name of, and it surprised me. I do not consider myself a wine connoisseurby any means, but I can definitely spot a good wine when I taste one.
Needless to say, I continue to buy wines primarily in bottles but I would definitely try that one particular type of boxed wine again if the opportunity seized me.
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
It's headed our way as well. I was so hoping we'd get through soccer season without me having to drive a vanload of wet smelly boys around.
Breaking news!! Game CXL'd. Yaaaaa hoooooooo.
And just because nobody asked, I'm mostly a beer drinker, but when I want wine I generally want something very cold and white, and boxes fit into my fridge better.
Stay dry, mood. It's a blustery day here! And school got out early, so I have a houseful of smelly boys - they're just dry and smelly as opposed to wet and smelly.
Recently exchanged silly comments with Bill Murray at the Union League Club Hotel In Chicago near the stock exchange. He was there for opening day, then a performance at a local club. Sweet as Vermont maple on a " a simple plan" blue-cold winter day. Less effusive but as genuine as when I met Tom Hanks and he held and palyed with my daughter when the premier of Sleepless in Seattle was released in Hollywood (15 years ago).
On a more sobering note, saw Richard Simmons in O'hare yesterday.
I was moved to tears, and while boarding and taking my middle seat in coach, I was sweatin' with the oldies...
"The smarter mysteries are hidden in the light" - Jean Giono (1895-1970)
Robert Vesco: Fugitive from US justice for 35 years
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
In a decade of antiheroes like the 1970s, Vesco achieved something approaching cult status. He might have been part of the damnation of Richard Nixon. But he was also widely seen as a Scarlet Pimpernel, the prototypical "fugitive financier" who was always one step ahead of his pursuers at the SEC, the FBI and the CIA. He looked the part too – tall, sleek and handsome, seemingly cocking a permanent snook at the US authorities as he dispensed interviews to network television and peered out from the photos on newspaper front pages, with his sideburns and glossy dark hair, his pencil moustache and trademark sunglasses. Rounding out the myth was his personal plane, the Silver Phyllis, a custom-fitted Boeing 707, equipped with its own discothèque and whirlpool bath.
School's out! Woo Hoo! Until August 1st anyway. My students finished exams today and had an early exit from school. Three more days of administrative duties and I'm gone daddy gone.
God, I'm right behind you. Jess is already done and home from college, Jordan and Rob have one more day of regular classes and then four days of finals next week, and Justin graduates from 8th grade on May 27. Then you can stick a fork in me 'cause I will be done for a while.
This fall I will be back to having THREE kids in high school again. All boys. Driving themselves. Someone buy me a drink.