My friend Katey over at John Tyler Wines wrote a post last week where she started asking men how they would describe their ideal woman as wine. Head on over, have a look. In this world of wine and wine-lover vocabulary and all the discourse on the internet about wine and loving wine, you’d think there would also be some conversation on wine and romantic LOVE. And being able to describe your ideal person with a vocabulary from such passion.
My friend in Yellowknife emails me after one of our video Skypes where I’d been talking about it. She said she’d returned to her couch and sat sipping a glass of (I’ll have to ask what she was sipping. Something from the Niagra peninsula I think). She writes (about herself):
I was inspired by the question – me; as a wine…
A lively, fullbodied wine. Earthy with intriguing flavors of smoke and pepper. Well structured with a good backbone and soft, supple tannins.
A fun exercise for sure!
So, all of you wine bloggers out there who confer on the virtues of vintages and textures of varietals: What have you got to say about the real love of your life?
My sister sent this bear warning to me today. She’s somewhere in South America right now. I’m sure she found it somewhere on the internet.
You can’t make these things up!
Last week, I published my list of 25 random things about me. And did all the appropriate tagging in Facebook. I couldn’t tag my friend in Yellowknife though, she’s not in Facebook. I tagged her through my blog and yesterday, she sent me her list. When this post feeds into Facebook, I’m going to tag all of our Grad ‘89 class, see what they have to say. HA!
25 Random Things About Me (The Friend)
I am short.
I am incessantly organized. For example: the cans in my cupboard line up in sections….OCD?
I like electronic gadgets but hate learning how to use them, therefore, I don’t buy them.
I am most relaxed when I am surrounded by nature.
I can never remember the names of songs or bands or singers.
I crashed my Dad’s ATV when I was a teenager. Man – is that a story!
I have funky green curtains that I made in my camp room, just so it doesn’t look or feel like a correctional facility.
I learnt to snowboard at 37.
I have lost count of the number of bear encounters I have had.
I drive a standard transmission vehicle.
My friend and I used to sing 50s and 60s music at the top of our lugs while working.
When I knew Redd – she had a different name and taught me to shoot a bow & arrow.
I’ve walked on the Arctic Ocean.
I’ve hiked the Chilkoot Trail; twice – both times with Jennifer.
I am clumsy. Not a revelation to most – just a fact of life.
I think everyone should read Mitch Albom’s - the five people you meet in heaven
This is my year of new adventures.
I wonder…why is it that someone will spend $100 on an outfit but won’t spend $15 for a pack of 5 “every day” undies until the ones they are wearing fall off?!
I love French fries.
I once made a turkey casserole that was so bad we went for Chinese food after four bites. I put the word “gross” thru the recipe.
I wish you a story with a happy ending and the wisdom to find it.
I am a sentimental fool who cries at sad movies and love stories.
I just heard the funniest story… Just for kicks as young men when one of their buddies passed out one evening the group decided it would be great fun to duct tape deer antler to the buddy’s head… and then they woke him up! Imagine the hilarity of watching someone try to sit up when his antlers are stuck in the couch…
I want to have a short, hot, passionate love affair.
It has taken me far longer to write this list than I thought it would or should!
No really. As much of a havoc the weather is wreaking in the rest of the country (and Canada), not having rain here is a catastrophe. A disaster. Some people aren’t complaining, but they’re not growing our food–and–errr-wine.
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