- Moscato – Noun – Hipster word for Ripple.
- Remember, gentlemen, to be gentle when disagreeing with your wife about the fashions she puts your son into. Describing the flannel jacket she bought for him as looking like the couch one would find in the ladies room in a Red Lobster probably wasn’t the smartest thing I’ve ever done.
- Answering her protests that the colors in said jacket were earth tones with “I’ve been around the world and I’ve never seen dirt that color before” probably wasn’t too swift, either.
- Took said son out to buy him some new school shoes. Since we were there, I also bought him a pair of hiking boots. An admonition that the school shoes were for school and doing things with his mother only, and the hiking boots were for everything else seemed to fall on deaf ears. That is, of course, until I warned him that failure to heed this new edict would result in dire consequences involving ketchup and shoe strings.
- Christmas and New Years went well. My goal was to be low key and not psychotic. So far, so good.
- We went from the mid-40’s to 10 below in 48 hours, then from 10 below to the mid-60’s in 24 hours. The arthritis demon has been doing a conga line up and down my body for two weeks.
- Ellie, our miniature American Psycho Hound is lucky she’s cute. So far, she’s chewed up a dozen USB cables, several Christmas presents, and the frame to my bed.
- Her sister, Sophie the Faux Dachshund, on the other hand, has only tried to chew up my desk once. When confronted, she looked me in the eye and asked me ‘What desk?”
- Come spring, I will be driving to North Dakota and back, following it up the week after with a drive to Texas and back. I am hoarding Audible credits in preparation for these trips.
- The boy and I are well into the Monster Hunter International series, and I think I will follow up with Galaxy’s Edge or maybe a relisten to the Lord of the Rings.
- I’ve looked at how much it will cost to rent a car to do these drives, and ye Gods and little fishes, that’s a chunk of change. It almost makes sense to buy a new car instead. I’ve been considering something smaller than an F-150 for the commute when we go back to the office, and this might be what finally pushes me into that decision.
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Posted by daddybear71 on January 2, 2023
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/ January 2, 2023You’re buying the wrong Moscato.
It’s not a fancy wine to impress your wine snob friends, but it goes well with a lot of dishes that you don’t want a heavy red or an oaky chardonnay with, and it will certainly not break the bank. Plus, it makes a good, if non-traditional, base for homemade sangria.
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Old NFO
/ January 3, 2023LOL, yep, THIMK before answering wife… ALWAYS… Sigh…
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daddybear71
/ January 3, 2023You’d think that I would have learned that by now, wouldn’t you?
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Old NFO
/ January 3, 2023That’s why you got the ‘big’ couch, right??? 🙂
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