The Coffee House

[terri58 1]

Last night we had an odd and meatless dinner of pizza, mac & cheese, baked beans, (Gary's call), and potato salad. After dinner guests and vino and we watched/discussed cable news. Started out with a Lorenzi Red and ended up with a Fess Parker dessert wine. The big argument was over Gary's wine pump. A battery operated device which aerates the wine while it pumps it from the bottle. A guest argued against the head the pump delivers with the wine. "I want my beers with a head not my wine" he stated. That head is what one attempts to get when swishing the wine in the glass or trilling ... only better. The debate was settle after comparing the wine from the pump with wine simply poured from the bottle. The pump wins.

Aeration is the point, so the pump is likely more effective than swirling alone in the glass.

This is better suited to young wines, however. With aged wines, nothing that vigorous is indicated, generally. I do agree with the sentiment that I wouldn't want a frothing head in my wine glass.

 

[Gary A.]

Happy weekend, hosers. Busy day: collect another gallon of paint, primer, and I am also on the hunt for new Italian parsley. The parsley has wintered well indoors in front of my large, sunny window, but it's definitely starting to wane. Everything will be moved out to the screened in porch in another 4 to 6 weeks.

Tonight, hubby is grilling lamb chops and making one of his world class reduction sauces to go with it. Gonna check out the cellar for a fat red, likely a well-aged CdP. Can't wait!

You know that Curly Parsley attracts Swallowtail Butterflies. Gary had parsley in pots when it went to seed. (Everything goes to seed.) Now he has an abundance of parsley (various types) growing wild on the retaining wall.

 

[terri58 1]

Here's hoping the power comes back sooner than expected, Leo! Last September we had that hurricane blow through, and we were down for 3 days. Not catastrophic, but long enough to start wearing on you.

I feel for the folks in Puerto Rico.

 

[Gary A.]

Last night we had an odd and meatless dinner of pizza, mac & cheese, baked beans, (Gary's call), and potato salad. After dinner guests and vino and we watched/discussed cable news. Started out with a Lorenzi Red and ended up with a Fess Parker dessert wine. The big argument was over Gary's wine pump. A battery operated device which aerates the wine while it pumps it from the bottle. A guest argued against the head the pump delivers with the wine. "I want my beers with a head not my wine" he stated. That head is what one attempts to get when swishing the wine in the glass or trilling ... only better. The debate was settle after comparing the wine from the pump with wine simply poured from the bottle. The pump wins.

Aeration is the point, so the pump is likely more effective than swirling alone in the glass.

This is better suited to young wines, however. With aged wines, nothing that vigorous is indicated, generally. I do agree with the sentiment that I wouldn't want a frothing head in my wine glass.

Gary wouldn't call it frothing ... it would not have been noticed had Gary not pointed it out. Maybe 1/8th or 1/16th of an inch uniformly across the top. Gary can only afford young wines.

 

[Gary A.]

Here's hoping the power comes back sooner than expected, Leo! Last September we had that hurricane blow through, and we were down for 3 days. Not catastrophic, but long enough to start wearing on you.

I feel for the folks in Puerto Rico.

Gary has a friend working for FEMA down there. He says it is a [insert expletive of your choice here] mess.

 

[terri58 1]

Happy weekend, hosers. Busy day: collect another gallon of paint, primer, and I am also on the hunt for new Italian parsley. The parsley has wintered well indoors in front of my large, sunny window, but it's definitely starting to wane. Everything will be moved out to the screened in porch in another 4 to 6 weeks.

Tonight, hubby is grilling lamb chops and making one of his world class reduction sauces to go with it. Gonna check out the cellar for a fat red, likely a well-aged CdP. Can't wait!

You know that Curly Parsley attracts Swallowtail Butterflies. Gary had parsley in pots when it went to seed. (Everything goes to seed.) Now he has an abundance of parsley (various types) growing wild on the retaining wall.

How cool! I just prefer Italian parsley to cook with.

We have a few butterfly bushes and both hummers and all sorts of butterflies adore them. I'd love to get some more stuff planted soon.

 

[Gary A.]

We also have lettuce and spinach all over the place. The is a head of red lettuce in the parkway next to the sidewalk which Mary Lou has been harvesting for salads recently. (Gary thinks she runs it through the dishwasher to clean it.) Much more flavor than store stuff.

We been researching and planting stuff which attracts hummers and butters. Consequently, we have them in the yard everyday all year long.

 

[terri58 1]

Last night we had an odd and meatless dinner of pizza, mac & cheese, baked beans, (Gary's call), and potato salad. After dinner guests and vino and we watched/discussed cable news. Started out with a Lorenzi Red and ended up with a Fess Parker dessert wine. The big argument was over Gary's wine pump. A battery operated device which aerates the wine while it pumps it from the bottle. A guest argued against the head the pump delivers with the wine. "I want my beers with a head not my wine" he stated. That head is what one attempts to get when swishing the wine in the glass or trilling ... only better. The debate was settle after comparing the wine from the pump with wine simply poured from the bottle. The pump wins.

Aeration is the point, so the pump is likely more effective than swirling alone in the glass.

This is better suited to young wines, however. With aged wines, nothing that vigorous is indicated, generally. I do agree with the sentiment that I wouldn't want a frothing head in my wine glass.

Gary wouldn't call it frothing ... it would not have been noticed had Gary not pointed it out. Maybe 1/8th or 1/16th of an inch uniformly across the top. Gary can only afford young wines.

Buy young and cellar them yourself. I don't know what comfort level I'd have buying aged wines, when you don't know the storage history. I'm happy to rely on hubby's experience in choosing special vintages and buying upon release, then putting in the cellar to forget about for some years. We've been collecting since 1994. Kind of a hobby, kind of a sickness.

We buy a lot of young, more ready to drink wine, too of course. Generally we're just a couple of wine sluts.

 

[terri58 1]

Here's hoping the power comes back sooner than expected, Leo! Last September we had that hurricane blow through, and we were down for 3 days. Not catastrophic, but long enough to start wearing on you.

I feel for the folks in Puerto Rico.

Gary has a friend working for FEMA down there. He says it is a [insert expletive of your choice here] mess.

I don't doubt that.

 

[Gary A.]

Here's hoping the power comes back sooner than expected, Leo! Last September we had that hurricane blow through, and we were down for 3 days. Not catastrophic, but long enough to start wearing on you.

I feel for the folks in Puerto Rico.

Gary has a friend working for FEMA down there. He says it is a [insert expletive of your choice here] mess.

I don't doubt that.

 

[Gary A.]

Last night we had an odd and meatless dinner of pizza, mac & cheese, baked beans, (Gary's call), and potato salad. After dinner guests and vino and we watched/discussed cable news. Started out with a Lorenzi Red and ended up with a Fess Parker dessert wine. The big argument was over Gary's wine pump. A battery operated device which aerates the wine while it pumps it from the bottle. A guest argued against the head the pump delivers with the wine. "I want my beers with a head not my wine" he stated. That head is what one attempts to get when swishing the wine in the glass or trilling ... only better. The debate was settle after comparing the wine from the pump with wine simply poured from the bottle. The pump wins.

Aeration is the point, so the pump is likely more effective than swirling alone in the glass.

This is better suited to young wines, however. With aged wines, nothing that vigorous is indicated, generally. I do agree with the sentiment that I wouldn't want a frothing head in my wine glass.

Gary wouldn't call it frothing ... it would not have been noticed had Gary not pointed it out. Maybe 1/8th or 1/16th of an inch uniformly across the top. Gary can only afford young wines.

Buy young and cellar them yourself. I don't know what comfort level I'd have buying aged wines, when you don't know the storage history. I'm happy to rely on hubby's experience in choosing special vintages and buying upon release, then putting in the cellar to forget about for some years. We've been collecting since 1994. Kind of a hobby, kind of a sickness.

We buy a lot of young, more ready to drink wine, too of course. Generally we're just a couple of wine sluts.

Wine sluts in wine country ... Gary imagines you'd be broke if you lived out here. Broke, but happy.

 

[snowbear141 72]

Last week, one of the sisters-in-law gave me a camera that her old boss wanted me to have.

 

[Gary A.]

Another from Chorus Line:

 

[smoke665]

Last week, one of the sisters-in-law gave me a camera that her old boss wanted me to have.

I remember those, my father had one.

 

[vintagesnaps]

How in the world many performances did you photograph Gary? And people think digital is easier! lol you could've had the film back by now (with prints) and been done. I dunno, those fotomat kiosks were pretty damn handy when we were kids! lol Or for me, stopping in the camera store was fun and they did all the processing... no muss no fuss, drop it off, pick 'em up.