Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
(or “Cecilia ran off to San Francisco and all you get is this lousy blog post”) Yes, Cecilia is off at a convention in San Francisco this weekend, so the blogging for this week’s JavaMonkey tasting gets left to me. As is usual on the third Thursday on each November, this tasting was all about …
There is a statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of the Old Dekalb County Courthouse in Decatur. It depicts him sitting, quill pen in hand, looking into space, doubtlessly pondering his next passage as he writes the Declaration of Independence. For years, I’ve always felt that something was missing from the statue. After all, Thomas …
Okay, it’s not a long drive, but… I don’t usually talk about what I do on social media outlets, but sometimes I feel it’s warranted, and this is one of those times. As you’ve probably heard, an old law is going to cause the Medicare reimbursement rates to healthcare providers to be cut by around …
Yeah, Hubby and I have been hitting the sauce again. Shocking, right? We went up to my parents’ cabin in Blairsville in September and October and decided to check out a new (to us) winery and one that we’d visited before. With the Winter Wine Highway 2010 weekend coming up in a few weeks (Dec …
Autumn is my favorite time of year. The changing leaves, cool weather, and thoughts of the holidays put me in a good mood, and, of course, there are fun festivals. No, I’m not talking about harvest festivals. My favorite by far has to be the Decatur Wine Festival.This year’s Wine Fest was particularly good, likely …
This year’s Decatur Wine Festival has a focus on organic and sustainably produced wines. In the same spirit, this is a sustainable blog post in that I’ve recycled some of last year’s etiquette and survival post. Now that we’ve all survived the elections, who wants a glass of wine? Or several? Seriously, whoever planned the …