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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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July, and no lie, just one of the neighbors.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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So you are a dharma brat, phylp?
Taken as you meant it, with affection, as is mutual...
I'm kind of pantheistic/nontheistic/non-duality/duality/human/universalenergy etc. recognizing there is no me speaking ;-)
My husband has made three trips to Nepal and each trip he brings back a beautiful Buddha and leaves money in the country as an exchange. But after this last trip, I told him, honey please leave money, but no more Buddhas!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Ha ha!
I'm agnostic. Maybe Gnostic, but only during certain hours of the day.
I attend the church of Jimi Hendrix with ritualistic fervor!
I totally got a kick out of the road signs you posted up-thread, phylp.
Though not quite sure who those three "I" characters were who just wrote the prior sentences, he's giggling incessantly right now over much of the content being shared in this thread!
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kpinwalla2
Social climber
WA
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Nov 10, 2018 - 07:50am PT
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The view out my kitchen window is mostly blocked by the foliage of my massive Syrah vines, now in their fall colors. I planted them in 1999 and the biggest one is now about 130 ft. in length and 3" in diameter 50 ft. from the base of the trunk. This year they (only 6 vines) yielded enough wine to fill a typical wine barrel, so in a year or so I'll be bottling about 25 cases.
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Nov 10, 2018 - 09:22am PT
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We have deer looking in at us all the time.
It's creepy.
I think I just saw my first Lurky deer - I didn't think that was possible.
It's the ears...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Nov 10, 2018 - 02:28pm PT
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kpinwalla2,
Anyone growing their own Syrah vines, at home, and squashing that goodness into wine gets two thumbs up from me!
And doing it in Washington state, we are talking decent acidity levels!
How would you describe the soil?
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 10, 2018 - 04:17pm PT
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Kpinwalla2! Your City of Rocks Cuvee was much appreciated too!
I'll give the whole presentation 3 thumbs up!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 10, 2018 - 06:56pm PT
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Out on the porch in the dark at halftime in the Warriors/Nets game, from the front porch, through the window, off the couch, and into the ring, an impossible call since the screen's up and the window's shut.
Halftime H-O-R-S-E contest.
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Enty
Big Wall climber
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Nov 11, 2018 - 12:12am PT
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Jim Clipper
climber
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Nov 11, 2018 - 01:23am PT
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Brow furrowed to perhaps see a for a moment, the views of others. My view, at most just a small part, best that way. Through a lens, from the couch to the screen, which flickers away. Goodnight
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Loyd
Big Wall climber
Roseburg, OR
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Nov 11, 2018 - 10:18am PT
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In years past
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 11, 2018 - 10:19am PT
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The view from my couch last night. OK, it wasn’t my couch. But it was a couch!
It was the first time I’ve seen and/or heard a $125,000 sound system, too!
There were also some components in a rack to my left.
It sounded gud! OK, DAMN GUD! 🤡
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, Bozeman, the ocean, or ?
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Nov 11, 2018 - 10:42am PT
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Susan
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kpinwalla2
Social climber
WA
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Nov 11, 2018 - 07:04pm PT
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Tarbuster - my backyard soils are basalt cobblestone gravels mixed with stream-reworked loess. The vines get all the water they want from my lawn sprinklers so have grown to mammoth size - like kudzu in the the southeast US. This year I harvested 800 labs at 23.5 Brix, which is pretty amazing. My friends at Rotie Cellars are making the wine this year. It's currently finished malolactic fermentation and is ageing in a neutral French oak barrel at the winery. The big question is: What do I do with 25 cases of wine?
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Nov 11, 2018 - 07:40pm PT
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Well, KP, keep me in mind for helping out with your dilemma! I recall sampling some product at a house in Albion a few years back...pretty nice!
Wind Dance...I hear good things! Amazing...
Cheers!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Nov 11, 2018 - 11:11pm PT
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kpinwalla2!
Man, I love a meaty, loamy Syrah.
23.5 Brix: with my limited means, I'm translating that to mean good ripeness and a fairly decent extraction. Aging in that French oak probably isn't exactly slumming it, either, ha!
I might have tasting notes from a Domaine de Vallouit Côte-Rôtie.
All those northern Rhône Syrah really spin my platter; probably tasted more Crozes-Hermitage (being more affordable), one of the more memorable being an unfiltered Domaine du Pavillon Mercurol, as well as some Cornas (certainly the more muscular of the Syrah I've had the pleasure to nuzzle up to), a sprinkling of Saint-Joseph, and a couple Vacqueyras (one of the latter showed burnt rubber on the nose; maybe the Montirius).
One of the more memorable and well-structured domestic Syrah I recall was a Neyers, Napa Valley, Hudson Vineyards.
Also, speaking again of California, Novy & Siduri do great stuff with that varietal, if a little on the hedonistic tilt.
It blows my mind that you get a 25 case yield out of some monster backyard vine collection. Growing "like kudzu" ... Very funny.
What could you possibly do with all those cases of wine?
Sounds like a real dilemma. Though I know you aren't exactly kidding about that kind of volume laying around, still, my heart goes out to you!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Nov 11, 2018 - 11:28pm PT
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Nice job, Sewellymon, on representing for the California Transverse Ranges.
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fredbill222
Trad climber
GJ, CO
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Nov 12, 2018 - 03:35am PT
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My name is Frederick but I've been called Fritz since birth and sign checks that way. Real name, no gimmicks. Baller. It's dark out ritenow but the view from my house in GJ is of a voluptuous trailer park maven smoking a blunt and drinking Rolling Rock from a red plastic cup.
sendersgamepodcast.com
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mastadon
Trad climber
crack addict
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Nov 12, 2018 - 06:14am PT
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Loyd, your posting passed right over most of these people’s flat heads. House on the meadow for Curry management? Nice.
Valley employees thought Curry was so evil until Delaware North took over. Delaware North helped people realize how good they had it with Curry.
Now, with Aramark, it’s even worse. Aramark has set new nadiers in employer behavior.
I was at a party at Falkenstein’s in Foresta a couple evenings ago. Some of the long-term valley employees were telling Aramark horror stories. It sounded particularly bad for the mid level management types.
Oh, for the good old halcyon days with Boomer and the rest of the rat-pack that actually looked out for the employees (mostly).
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