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A Busy Life

Such a busy week. We had customers from the UK and Japan in on Thursday and Friday and it entailed a lot of talking and listening. The meetings went well and my partner and I are both glad it’s over. Although we did enjoy the three gentleman, it’s a lot of work when we entertain customers in our facility. I was ready for a good glass of wine when getting home on Friday This was a bottle we received in our Geerlings & Wade shipment. It was a spicy blackberry California Syrah. “The aromas tinged with earth and toasty French [...]

By Joanne|2009-12-05T13:21:58-05:00December 5, 2009|Food|3 Comments

Meeting Places

Last night we were to meet with friends and watch Syracuse play Oklahoma. Following a lovely dinner, described further down in this post, we arrived at the sports bar, "Zebs", to find our friends Rock, Jackie, and Bob quite upset with the "home team". It was half time and Syracuse were losing. Now I'm not a basketball fan, but as I understand it, the half is considered very early in the game and there still might have been time for a come back. I couldn't understand the long faces. As the game resumed, Syracuse looked awful. Now it was understood why everyone was so [...]

By Joanne|2009-03-28T12:34:00-04:00March 28, 2009|Breakfast ideas, Food thoughts, Life|5 Comments

The 1st Phone Book

According to my office supplier's calendar, the 1st phone book was issued in New Haven, CT on this day in 1878. And WHY is that important to know?!!!! I couldn't swing the PM post yesterday, there was WAY too much to do. Ted and I didn't get out of the house for our Friday night dinner until 7:30pm. In preparation for tonight's event, there were two items that would be better if made the day before, the 2 cheese and leek tart and the molasses whipped sweet potatoes. They are now in "holding" until later tonight when they will be [...]

By Joanne|2009-02-21T10:02:40-05:00February 21, 2009|Breakfast ideas, Exercises, Life|Comments Off

Wining and Dining

Still no dishwasher. Tuesday is the earliest we can get a repair guy to come fix the problem. He will regret waiting so long because there are quite a few dirty dishes in there and on a couple of occasions we had fish. I don't even like to think about it. Last night, Ted and I had time for a little happy hour fine wine before heading to dinner. We opened the bottle Bob and Nancy gave us at Thanksgiving and it was wonderful. Ted said it reminded him of the wines he had made. We then went [...]

By Joanne|2008-12-13T09:58:40-05:00December 13, 2008|Breakfast ideas, Food thoughts|Comments Off