All of the wines tasted at this time were selected by one of the owners of Creekside Cellars. While the wine store is no longer in business, the wines reviewed here are still available at a variety of places. The tasting occurred on March 30, 2013. Scharffenburger Brute Rose Sparkling Anderson Valley, Mendocino County ($25) This …
Book Review: The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky by David Litwack #DSATour
This book has a lot of charm. When you want to be whisked away, it’s a great book for that. Meet Kailani, a 9-year old girl who calls herself The Daughter of the Sea and Sky. She wants to make everything right again after a war where the world divided. She travels across the …
Gold Rush Deluge Excerpt, #GRDBlast, and $25 B&N/Amazon Giveaway
Too late she realizes Kersey has a dark and murderous past… Publication Date: August 23, 2014 Genre: Historical Romance When Lucinda Martin York and George Arnold leave Diggers Flat during a rainstorm, the Sacramento and American rivers crest, causing a deluge of epic proportions that engulfs the town of Sacramento. While Lucinda uses her …
New Clairvaux 2013 Primativo Release Tasting
Yesterday, we headed over to the tasting room at New Clairvaux Vineyards to check out their new wine releases. We hadn’t been for a while thanks to me being pregnant with baby girl, and we wwere excited to see what they had going on. We tasted six wines while there, including the new 2013 Primativo …
Out of the Park Baseball 15 Game Review and Rafflecopter Giveaway
Wining Husband, Tiger Boy, and I are all huge baseball fans. It’s kind of fun in our household because there are two different teams we root for. My husband is a huge Seattle Mariners fan, and Tiger boy and I cheer for the Oakland Athletics. It can get kind of loud in our house when …
Wining Around the Web on September 6, 2014
The kids are back in school, fall crafts are in full-bloom, and in some areas of the country, people are switching out their summer sundresses for fall tights. There’s a lot going on right now around the Internet. Baseball is in full swing (look for my review of a fun baseball computer game tomorrow), and …
Finding an Afterschool Routine
Leaving homework, dinner schedules, and bedtimes to chance has a tendency to create chaos and frustration during possibly the only family time of the day. Establishing a routine does not have to mean never allowing for flexibility, but it gives parents and children alike the feeling of comfort that comes from knowing what is expected. …
Fat Boy Lasagna
We have a cat, Stripes, whose nickname is “Fat Boy.” This lasagna is named for him, because, if like Garfield he ate lasagna, well, he’d be even fatter than he is. Stripes was Tiger Boy’s 11th birthday present along with Lady. Tiger Boy just turned 16 a couple weeks ago, and it was time to make …
Tasting Notes: A Collection of California Wine and Cheese
*These notes are from a tasting in March, 2013 at Creekside Cellars. While Creekside Cellars is no longer open, these wines can be found at a variety of places. I have a stack of tasting notes I will be sharing over the coming weeks from tastings held at this wonderful venue.* The theme of this …
Thoughts on the McCall’s Fall 2014 Pattern Releases
So, the fall patterns were released by McCall’s last week, and I feel the need to comment on them. As with Butterick’s fall 2014 line, there were some hits and misses. Some of the patterns I really, really wanted to like but just can’t. Like, for instance, M7025, which should be cute, but just looks …
