The Coffee House

[Gary A.]

Thanks smoke665.

Mary Lou and Gary are finally relaxing today. We've been busy this 95F day. Yesterday was a bust as we had to attend a fundraiser. Today we sorta doubled up for losing yesterday and worked on prepping the food for tomorrow. Finally, we're relaxing with some vino and kicking back in the patio watch the Koi breach and the damn Mockingbirds eat my Pinot Noir grapes. They hang around everyday squeezing the grapes for ripeness. The Pinots are turning and the Mocking birds are picking out the purple clusters. Gary is thinking of sprinkling some chili powder on the grapes. The vino is very good, a Santa Yenez Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. The vintner is an old Hollywood guy, Vincent. His best buddy was Peter O'Tool and scattered amongst the tasting rooms are photos and memorabilia of him and O'Tool including ... robes O'Tool wore in the movie Lawrence of Arabia, which was possibly and arguably one of, if not, The, greatest movie ever made.

 

[jcdeboever]

Come on girls, why the girly drink? vodka is best straight out of bottle. Next thing you know, y'all be experts on wine coolers

 

[smoke665]

Come on girls, why the girly drink? vodka is best straight out of bottle. Next thing you know, y'all be experts on wine coolers

Uh, just so you know the "kick your butt" ingredient in the Apple Pie is 190 proof clear. The Orange Creamsicle has both 190 and Vanilla Vodka. These are not the watered down versions you see in the stores.

 

[jcdeboever]

Come on girls, why the girly drink? vodka is best straight out of bottle. Next thing you know, y'all be experts on wine coolers

Uh, just so you know the "kick your butt" ingredient in the Apple Pie is 190 proof clear. The Orange Creamsicle has both 190 and Vanilla Vodka. These are not the watered down versions you see in the stores.

Ok whew, you guys had me worried there for a sec

 

[Gary A.]

O M G Peoples ... Gary has been cooking a pork loin roast for half the day in a crock pot. He just tasted it and it is amazing. Gary made a simmering stock of herbs, spices, wine, BBQ sauce and chicken stock and it is turning out wonderfully.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary is ready to invite Anthony Bourdain over for dinner.

 

[snowbear115 46]

Good morning. Time to go to work; goodbye.

 

[table1349]

Have fun at work snowbear.

Lovely morning in the flatlands. 73 degrees just a wisp of a breeze. Just got home from a long work out a little bit ago at the gym. M.W,&F are my long gym days as I spend 30 minutes on the recumbent walker then hit the weight machines. 3 sets of 10 reps at each of the machines. T&Th I just do the recumbent walker.

Enjoying a late breakfast,on the veranda, will probably will skip lunch. The dogs are on the landing for the stairs soaking up sun. Monday is vacuum and dusting day so I will have to get busy here in a couple of minutes. There is some left over grilled chicken thighs for dinner along with potato salad (always better the next day) and baked beans since the wife has a meeting tonight. I would definitely let the summer weather stay like this.

 

[table1349]

Monday Morning Coffee Needs.

 

[vintagesnaps]

There was some thingy on PBS about Kansas, just a short uh, time filler I guess at the end of Mystery. It was just music, and time lapse... it was a whole lot of open space. I thought, do any people live there?? and then went yeah, somebody in the coffee house does...

We accidently made hard cider in college once. I think it just sat around too long, we weren't trying to actually do anything with it...

Now they sell 'moonshine' in the drive thru beverage barn, what have things come to?? lol I doubt it's really any sort of shine if it's there along with whatever now replaced wine coolers and mad dog that's the crap you drink when you're young and broke.

 

[SquarePeg36 7]

Moonshine is very trendy right now. I had a really good drink in Nashville that the menu referred to as a Mule Kicker but the bartender called a Moonshine Lemonade. It was delicious and had a definite kick.

 

[vintagesnaps]

I think it's a little more, uh, I don't know, sophisticated? without extra ingredients that supposedly people put in homemade versions. I remember grain alcohol and hard apple cider; nobody around here was making moonshine but it was still a thing in rural areas. But then supposedly it all went downhill, people started putting crap like gasoline and whatnot in it so that pretty much ended it.

There have been a couple of shows about somebody going into production of 'today's' moonshine, guess it's potent but cleaned up and actually safe enough to drink! Wonder what started it up again anyway?? The one show I doubt they ever got it off the ground, so much bickering. But what they can sell in a drive thru is usually just low % of alcohol and watered down crap. I just buy pop there.

 

[table1349]

There was some thingy on PBS about Kansas, just a short uh, time filler I guess at the end of Mystery. It was just music, and time lapse... it was a whole lot of open space. I thought, do any people live there?? and then went yeah, somebody in the coffee house does...

We accidently made hard cider in college once. I think it just sat around too long, we weren't trying to actually do anything with it...

Now they sell 'moonshine' in the drive thru beverage barn, what have things come to?? lol I doubt it's really any sort of shine if it's there along with whatever now replaced wine coolers and mad dog that's the crap you drink when you're young and broke.

If it was on Kansas I am surprised it was long enough for you to have seen it or remember it. We are long on crops and short on excitement.

What they sell as moonshine isn't moonshine. It is just watered down alcohol that has not been aged. True home brew (moonshine) is neither aged nor cut. It generally comes in at around 98% alcohol. The best stuff is triple distilled and if properly done can result in 100% alcohol. I was not kidding a while back when I said that I would pour the leftover corn liquor into the tank of my car and it ran. Were talking high octane leaded gas with 98% pure alcohol added.

For the record I do live in Kansas, I actually in many ways like living in Kansas and I do make fun of my home state of Kansas as I do of myself. If one can't find humor in their own self and their situation they are a poorer person for it. Besides, as Mark Twain said, "If you can't go by an easy road........Don't Go."

 

[vintagesnaps]

It was maybe 15? minutes or so. Some hills, I forget what they were called. Kept me watching that long anyway. There was a fire, or maybe a burn, then winter, then spring and things were growing... wasn't sure if it was a particular occurrence since there was only music and they did kind of circle around the same hills and trees a bit. It was kind of cool and I couldn't tell if I was looking at dirt or sand or what in low sunlight. But not quite as much adventure as in the episode of Mystery on Masterpiece I'd watched.

I agree about finding humor in your own life. I live in the state that's round on the ends and hi in the middle... nothing to laugh at here! <--- sarcasm

 

[snowbear115 46]

Moonshine is very trendy right now. I had a really good drink in Nashville that the menu referred to as a Mule Kicker but the bartender called a Moonshine Lemonade. It was delicious and had a definite kick.

Uncle George's stuff goes well with spring water. Well, it goes with pert' near everything, 'ceptin' the preacher's wife.