Thursday, September 30, 2010
Hot on the trail of ingredients to make a seven-grain salad, a road block appears. Just how much will it cost to make this wonderul salad? I mean, sure, some of the ingredients will last until next time, but I’m having to collect them in installments. I mean, sometimes a 250 ml bottle costs as [...]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
There could be some fun had at our house around Halloween. In the past we have hosted parties for the kids, which apparently are much missed. The trouble is finding time to really get it right. Still, with Eve being only 7 1/2 her friends are young enough to enjoy some of the juvenile pranks [...]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Perhaps kids don’t say ‘spill’ anymore when they want their friends to give them information. Who knows what they say? I just know that when I was a kid, if there was any gossip we wanted to hear, we just said ’spill’. Wouldn’t you like to know what the stars are drinking right now? I’m not [...]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
From October 1-1oth, locations throughout the Okangan are hosting events linked-in with the Okanagan Fall Wine Festival. This is apparently the only festival held during harvest time in North America, and visitors will get a chance to witness some of what goes on in the business of viticulture. Participating wineries include Nk’Mip, Oliver Twist and [...]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
My latest brain wave is to make virgin cocktails for my kids at Thanksgiving. I just remember drinking my first Shirley Temple, probably aged 5, and it was the most exotic and delicious drink ever. My parents were all excited for some reason, maybe because they liked Shirely Temple movies, or perhaps the drinks were [...]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
A UK women is suing supermarket Asda for allegedly buying a bottle of white wine for her wine rack from them containing a frog. Isolde Beesley says she bought the wine on December 23rd of last year and just recently opened at at a family gathering for Boxing Day. When she began to pour [...]
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Now, I can’t imagine why anyone would possibly want to divorce a beloved item such as their wine rack but it seemed like a great title to tie into the topic of marital divorce. With my parents recently deciding to take that step after being married for what seems like forever, I may in fact [...]
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
I have never been much of a gardener. I always love the look of a pretty garden or some pretty houseplants but I must admit that I hate the maintenance. And, more than that, most times I completely forget to water them until they are too dead for saving. Even when I moved into our [...]
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
How does it happen? I’m writing about wine, yet still have not made it out on a wine tour. Time is severely running out. To top things off, our neighbors went this weekend. They stopped in at a few wineries in and around Kelowna where they continued to develop their extensive knowledge of the drink and [...]
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Around this time of year I get to thinking about where would be warmer than Salmon Arm in winter. We just had a cold spell too, which only hastened my thinking towards escape and hot spots. One of these, a favorite with Brits, is the Canary Islands. Along with beaches and sun, there are eleven [...]
