Well, you can always tempt me with an ice cold gin martini, up, with a twist and three large jalapeño and garlic-stuffed olives. Tonight’s pour helped me over the discovery that our son never even took the tags off the three lovely pair of iconic preppy shorts we bought him eight years ago during his freshman year at Choate. How did we make this tragic discovery? We found them wadded up in a box marked “High School Crap” while we were helping him pack for his move to his first Army duty station next month. His explanation? “Really, mom? Whales? Lobsters? Sailboats? Those were just too ridiculous to wear” — he said while carefully folding his SpongeBob beach towel and placing it in the box with his brigade of plastic Army men for shipping off to Ft. Gordon.
Another olive, please? (And, say, I think this stool has my name on it.)
Ft. Gordon!! My dad was stationed there for a number of years and is now retired there! The preppy shorts will work down there…especially during Master’s Week.
This probably counts as “You had to be there,” but I found it quite entertaining to watch DH move an outhouse this weekend. We had logging done on our mountain property, and to our dismay our outhouse suddenly took center stage in an otherwise magnificent panoramic view. He agreed to move it before he realized what a monumental job it was! I enjoyed sitting on our front porch, sipping on rum and coke, and watching him work like a maniac.
@Lindgaf what a story! You’ve inspired me to start a “worst vacation ever” thread… if I can find the Parents Forum lol.
I’ve been drinking Aperol Spritz’s and Rose these past few hot weeks. Yum.
@taverngirl , I forgot to add the bit about the hookah!
We all believe it was the cook who gave us the 48-hour stomach bug, and hubby didn’t get it because he arrived a day late. Tour-guide girl seemed to be sick as a parrot for the whole trip, but that didn’t stop her and her lover (the cook) from pulling out their hookah and smoking it in between their bouts of bickering. I’m pretty sure they weren’t just smoking tobacco in that hookah, because it sure did smell like one of those famous Egyptian skunks (or maybe it was a marmot?) At any rate, it smelled very unpleasant, but perhaps accounted for the quality of “campsites” we experienced on the trip.
Should also mention that on Christmas Eve, there was no campsite at all. We were simply expected to stay awake until it was time to begin hiking up Mt. Sinai at about 3 am or whatever it was. If you wanted to sleep, you just slept on the coach. On the unheated coach, in the mountains of Egypt, in December. So yeah, freezing our buns off, and no sleep at all, but like I said, I guess the view was worth it.
I’ve got what DH left of a bottle of wine from Austria. Light and crisp pretty dry. It’s called Falko, but I feel like maybe I should put on some Falco while drinking it.
This year I’ve discovered a new (to me) style of sour beer, gose. Low alcohol and very refreshing when it is hot. Current favorite is Founder’s Green Zebra. Less than 5% so I don’t have to feel guilty on a weeknight.
I just got an Amazon Echo. Have been enjoying telling Alexa what to do, especially play music. For the first time in a long time, I think I will have someone to talk to at home!
Here is to us, old farts!! Raises her virtual wine glass ?!
(We drank like royalty on vacation… time to undo the calories… I guess I will stick to Virvin - virtual vino. )
Since we are discussing wine…My son is a senior member of Civil Air Patrol and last week his cadets successfully completed a pilot training course in Mississippi, (he is from CT). A local trainer suggested they all celebrate at the “best steak house ever”. He had paperwork to complete so he sent the group on and joined them as they all were completing giving their order to the server. The server asked what he would like to drink and he asked, “what type of cabernet sauvignon do you have”? At that point the server doubled over with laughter and said, “try again suga”. He ended up with sweet tea.
Just did a 2 mile gorge hike so feeling like it’s ok to have this rose right here.
I wish I had an amusing story about a bear or something. Last time I was in this area (Poconos), I had a bear wander onto the deck and sniff the floaty raft I’d just been floating in. I had the presence of mind to get video (I was inside the house, after all) and post it on social media. On a hike I was walking with my head on a swivel (for bears of course, this was the next day). I wasn’t paying too much attention to my feet. When a tree root across the trail moved I realized it was a very large black snake and I did a cartoon jump (think Fred Flintstone in his his car or the roadrunner starting up) . Then I turned around and took a photo, of course.
The server asked what he would like to drink and he asked, “what type of cabernet sauvignon do you have”? At that point the server doubled over with laughter and said, “try again suga”. He ended up with sweet tea."
We still joke in our family about a dinner we had in a Texas restaurant. When the waitress asked us what we wanted to drink mom asked the waitress for the wine choices. The answer was, “Red and White”.
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