Thanksgiving – Kids Home

This years we had much to give thanks for.  Our family was together as the kids came back from their colleges for a couple days–like the old days.   Mia celebrated her 22nd Birthday,  Mark came home and surfed a day before preparing for his first set of College Finals,  we had our traditional Thanksgiving meal…

So ends the perfect season……

For all great upsets, there is an equal and opposite despair. So ends the perfect season. Ducks football will survive and get stronger with three more years of eligibility for key players. There is nobody to blame. So many close plays. I just can’t bear to think of it right now but time will heal.…

Oregon Ducks are number one…..

What a great Stadium. Our first game in the new stadium did not disapoint. Mias apartement 50 yards from the enterence guaranteed us close parking and I felt like a VIP. The Ducks killed the Bears 59 to 17. It was cold but there was almost more Oregon Green in the stadium than Cal fans.…

Pressing Day

The must hit the magic sugar level of 4 brix today and I headed over to Fermentation Solutions and rented a 10 gallon press.   Instead of buying a bunch of glass carboys for our 15 gallons of wine,   I decided to by a 25 gallon Stainless Steel Carboy so that next year when…