Monthly Archives: November 2021

Most dangerous white wine yet

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This is the most dangerous wine the Goddess of Wine has recommended.  It’s so subtle – lovely and dry.   You just keep taking sips, and soon, the bottle is gone.


Intensely floral, fruity flavours. Great structure and a long mineral finish. 


Grecanico and Pinot Grigio…. and from Sicily and Organic.  What more could you ask for?  


I’m wondering if it gets better if you speak Sicilian to it.


Definitely worth a trip to the north eastern regions of the Island.


Serve it nicely chilled.  


You have been warned .. 

TAVERNELLO GRECANICO PINOT GRIGIO – TERRE SICILIANE ORGANIC

$11.99 regularly $12.99

12% alcohol

UPC: 08008530055585

Parental Talk

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The bad news is my toddler dumped my husband’s large water bottle all over the couch and himself. The good news is now he’s had his bath


I told my toddler he was so cute I could just eat him up and now he’s bringing me snacks from the kitchen so I’m not hungry.


My kids’ friends’ mom always has some exciting craft for them to do when they go to her house. When my kids’ friends are over, I just sit on the couch and occasionally call out “does anyone want chips?”


*Googles Thanksgiving recipes* *Googles easy Thanksgiving recipes* *Googles really easy Thanksgiving recipes* *Googles is McDonald’s open on Thanksgiving*


My toddler just slapped me with one glove. She may not know what it means but I’m a woman of honour. We duel at dawn.


Nobody prepared me for how loudly babies sleep


10 said she doesn’t like my coffee breath, but she’d rather deal with that than my “decaf personality,” I think she’s figured out marriage.


“Daddy, are you going to pick me up from Art Club or do I have to ride the bus that smells like bare feet and underwear?” and other ways 11 y/o’s communicate with their parents.


i feel a little slimmer after a week of eating mostly goldfish crackers, clementines, fig newtons and string cheese…i’m calling this the toddler diet


Me: You can pick between Superman or Spiderman. 3yo: I pick Batman!


My kids ran out of corks for art projects so I ordered a case of wine,

I feel this is my moment to shine
told my kids to build a fort to get them off their iPads, so now they’re in the fort, watching their iPads

Watson is full of ideas

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1118 pages of ambitious and stimulating facts and ideas, but not as absorbing as the tomes by fJames Burke (The Day the Universe Changed and Connections).

According to one reviewer, this is an overview of human intellectual development.  At times, I’m wondering how intelligent some of the development is.  But, I do agree that it is as much a response to changes in the natural environment- such as shifts in climate and the appearance of new diseases – as from internal dynamism.


This is the third time I’m worked my way through it.  I’ve found it more enlightening each time.


Be prepared to make extended sitting reading this one.  You’ll get caught up on something and keep reading.


Ideas A history from Fire to Freud – Peter Watson – ISBN 0-7538-2089-7

A little of this, a little of that

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*The Waltz of Lost Dreams* Manos Hadjidakis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IYiP6jAfgA


O Silêncio da Guitarra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg0LjK4ld28


Di Krenitse – The Well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC1T-ozmq6g


VARGAS BLUES BAND – Del sur (video directo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNEfctDDusc


MELINA MERCOURI- Ο ΜΕΤΟΙΚΟΣ -LE METEQUE- GEORGE MOUSTAKI’74 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecpMw4DHWCs

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For the region the wine and the vintner.  Emilia-Romagna – the home of parmigiano and prosciutto and Chiara Condello.  She crafts organic Sangiovese.


7 hectares of land, 4.8 of which are planted to Sangiovese; the rest are split between woods and olive trees.  

She works in her own way, with her own vineyards and own cellar.  Her first vintage was 2015, and in a short time she’s combined her bright-eyed enthusiasm with a clear vision of what her Sangiovese should be.


Annual production is just 12,000 bottles.  Hand harvested and 100% organically cultivated.


It has a  complex bouquet, lively acidity and a lovely long finish.


ROMAGNA SANGIOVESE PREDAPPIO – CHIARA CONDELLO 2018

14% Alcohol

$24.99 regularly $27.99

UPC: 08056737212898

More than one thought for the day

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“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”


I don’t have kids so I wanna take my dog to the zoo. Why shouldn’t he get to see an elephant?


Walked in on 10 sneaking Halloween candy and when I asked her what she’s doing, she looked me dead in the eye and said, “Practicing.”


After my son asked my daughter to play “dragon ninjas” i walked over and got the box of band-aids without a second thought


Oh I get it, you think you’re better than me cuz your kid has both shoes on.


I caught my husband eating the last Reese’s candy. First of all, that’s our son’s candy. Second of all, I was going to eat that.