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[Rocky]

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That's what it's all about!

 

[winemaker81]

@geek, not laughing at you in your recent posts -- just the prices.

 

[sour_grapes]

@geek, not laughing at you in your recent posts -- just the prices.

But it's Costco, so you have to buy a dozen!

 

[bstnh1]

Darwin Award contender!

That picture just gives me the willies!!! I hate heights over 10 or 15 feet especially if I have nothing to hang on to. I only rode a Ferris wheel once and NEVER got on a roller coaster.

 

[vinny]

@geek, not laughing at you in your recent posts -- just the prices.

Do you mean to say that you do not sit and sip a $3500 congac every weekend like the rest of us?

 

[winemaker81]

Do you mean to say that you do not sit and sip a $3500 congac every weekend like the rest of us?

I don't do the cheap stuff - life is far too short!

 

[winemaker81]

That picture just gives me the willies!!! I hate heights over 10 or 15 feet especially if I have nothing to hang on to. I only rode a Ferris wheel once and NEVER got on a roller coaster.

I'm a mixture. If I feel 101% secure, I can do heights, such as roller coasters and Ferris wheels. I'm the guy in the front of a roller coaster when it briefly stops, with me looking down nearly 300'.

If I'm not feeling secure? Nope, nope, nope!

Ladders I can do up to about 20', but I have a stabilizer bar, make sure the legs are well seated, and prefer to have someone hold the ladder. I do this kind of stuff 'cuz I have to. I purchased as 12' extension for my power washer, which eliminated 80% of the ladder work to power wash the house. The torque is tough on the shoulders, but that's better than being up on a ladder more than necessary.

The guy that recently cleaned our gutters? He walked around the edge of the roof with a leaf blower. He was being cautious, but was sure footed. In back it's about 30' down. Again, nope, nope, nope!

 

[jswordy]

Pix from our 28-mile trip from Fayetteville, TN, to Tullahoma, TN, to pick up a case of Brickmason, with a stop off in Lynchburg on the way back home for a taste. This may take 2 posts or so...





Never saw this before...



Mrs. Jswordy's nickname!



Then on to The SunDrop Shoppe, a restaurant started by the SunDrop distributor in Tullahoma. SunDrop was invented in Missouri and remains popular in many parts of the south like Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and some of the Midwest including Wisconsin and western Minnesota.





Tullahoma is home to Arnold Air Force Base, so...

 

[jswordy]

Eating at The Sundrop Shoppe...



Then on to the tasting...





I am not much on their wines but they are sweet so they are the kind Sue likes and so we bought a couple bottles. This is my tasting of Chambourcin, dry and the only one they offer with locally grown grapes. They make muscadine and white muscadine, too, but they are not dense enough or flavorful enough for me. Oh yes, I am a muscadine and scuppernong wine connoisseur. There is such a thing, and like with anything else wine, I have my favorite wineries.

 

[jswordy]

Oh yeah, decent cigars at the liquor store, too.

 

[winemaker81]

Jim, Glad you had a great trip!

This is my tasting of Chambourcin, dry and the only one they offer with locally grown grapes.

Chambourcin is a underrated grape. Some years back a friend and I did a winery tour in the Charlottesville VA area. Every winery offered Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and Chambourcin. At every winery the Chambourcin was not only the best value, it was the best wine. In that area Chambourcin grows well, while Vinifera struggle.

 

[cmason1957]

Chambourcin is probably my favorite French-hybrid wine. Most wineries here in Missouri make at least one style of it. I think my favorite is a blend from Robeller Winery near Hermann, Mo. They blend it with a variety I never can remember the name of, but it is related to Pinot Noir. The name of the wine is La Trompier Noir.

I looked on their website Chambourcin, St. Vincent, and Villard Noir.

 

[jswordy]

Jim, Glad you had a great trip!


Chambourcin is a underrated grape. Some years back a friend and I did a winery tour in the Charlottesville VA area. Every winery offered Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and Chambourcin. At every winery the Chambourcin was not only the best value, it was the best wine. In that area Chambourcin grows well, while Vinifera struggle.

Yep, I just don't like how this winery does their wines. They are not intense enough for me, sort of like "wine light." That's a cardinal sin in my book. But it was on the way home. Norton is another underrated grape, if done well.

 

[geek]

Yankee stadium

 

[jswordy]

I saw this and just chuckled, because I work at a university, and every university in the country has for decades been scrambling to snag a licensing deal like the University of Florida got for its Gatorade recipe. Created by UF kidney disease specialist Robert Cade after assistant football coach Dwayne Douglas asked him why Gator football players lost so much weight during practices and games but urinated so little, in 1967 Gatorade was mentioned to a vice president for Indianapolis-based Stokely-Van Camp Co. by one of Cade's assistants, who had taken a job at an Indiana university. Since 1973, Gatorade has brought more than $80 million to the university, which has been used to fund everything from UF’s Whitney Marine Laboratory in St. Augustine to the on-campus Genetics Institute. And that's why the scramble is on everywhere else, lol...

 

[jswordy]

The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope represented 25 years of optics research, development and testing by scientists from the Center for Applied Optics at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, where I work. The first released photo by NASA shows they did good work!

https://www.uah.edu/news/news/when-...hes-25-years-of-uah-r-d-involvement-will-soar