My new AT&T service is getting hooked up today, so my site will be down for “a while.” I guess I could have timed that a little better, but I got caught up in the excitement of the moment and didn’t even think about it. Three years after nearly getting Google Fiber in KC, gigabit service has come to my neighborhood here finally. It’s been here for a while actually, but the price has been a bit exorbitant. They finally came down to the point where it’s nearly the same price as my 18 meg service, so I made the jump. I’m sure there’s a load of hidden fees they’ll dump on me or some mysterious thing. It’s been proven on numerous occasions that AT&T actually has a personal vendetta against me, yet I keep giving them more and more money every month. Shame on me I guess.
Not a bad weekend I suppose. The rain is really getting old. I think it’s moved past old and well into maddening. There’s just not a whole lot to when it’s pouring outside but spend money, or so it seems. So along those lines, we went out wine tasting once again. Honestly I just don’t get tired of doing the wineries. They’re fun, at least for me. And if you keep the purchases to a minimum, it’s a relatively cheap way to spend a rainy day too. Therein lies the problem I guess. We usually feel obligated to pick up a few bottles in return for the tastings. Next thing you know we have a closet full of wine that we rarely drink. (And I mean “full” in the most literal sense. It’s full.) So be it I guess. After a few wineries, the group went to Smith Flat House for dinner. That’s definitely one of my favorites out here, I don’t pass up many chances to go there. I had lamb shanks Saturday and they were delicious. Can’t say I’ve ever had anything bad there.
- A nice cheese tray we enjoyed while on the wine trail
- carrot cake for dessert on Valentine’s day.
- tasty Valentines Day dinner. Filet and lobster, yum.
- Kicking off the rainy day of wine tasting up in Fairplay. My friend Nacho is showing me how to properly puddle-stomp.
- Grandpa helping the little ‘un pet the winery dog.
- When trees start falling over, you cut them up and make parking stops I guess.
- Sneaky photo of the saxophone player at one of the wineries. He was pretty good, it made the tasting even more enjoyable.
- It’s so wet out here trees are just falling over. This one was at one of the wineries we went to.