Uncle Dennis, if you can get them in Charlotte I just tasted two nice wines here in the $15 range.

2007 Hames Valley Merlot from Joyce Vineyards, and 2009 Pinot Monterey from Joyce Vineyards. 2,000 cases per year on both, but they have just gone retail. Until recently they sold only to Monterey and Carmel restaurants.

Very nice for the price. I have food pairings galore in mind.

http://www.joycevineyards.com/Philosophy.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuMp9AjK ... 3D2E27AFCC


Here's the Ferdinand Derby.


And a much higher video quality of the Mine That Bird win.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tvqObArj_U


I watched that race from a bar along Highway 88 not too many miles from where I rolled my truck about 8 months later.


I can watch horse racing forever.

Happy Mothers Day to any mothers who read this (I think we only have two!)
Here is mine:
1915-1993

A classic, JR.

A very pretty and artistic face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4f6wiQJh4

I can't end another Kentucky Derby Day without a nod to the greatest race horse of my life.



Secretariat


"he's all alone.....he's out there almost a sixteenth of a mile from the rest of the horses!"

Happy Mothers day!

All you Mothers.

Tribe Fan in SC/Cali wrote:Uncle Dennis, if you can get them in Charlotte I just tasted two nice wines here in the $15 range.

2007 Hames Valley Merlot from Joyce Vineyards, and 2009 Pinot Monterey from Joyce Vineyards. 2,000 cases per year on both, but they have just gone retail. Until recently they sold only to Monterey and Carmel restaurants.

Very nice for the price. I have food pairings galore in mind.

http://www.joycevineyards.com/Philosophy.html

My current favorite is a Seghesio Zinfandel from Sonoma County. I have some 2009, though if you can find 2007 buy all you can. I can get it at Costco for about $18.99. Good stuff!

Thank!

Beautiful picture, JR!

Happy Mother's Day!

Uncle Dennis, I may go searching for that one. We have a pack of sun dried tomato and basil sausage that I believe would do well with a nice zin.

As I've mentioned many times before my wife and I are regulars at our local fair. Of course I go for the horse races, but I equally enjoy the concert lineups. The concerts normally feature bands and artists long past their prime selling days. Concert admission is free with daily fair admission.

I just checked and see this year we get Foghat and Blue Oyster Cult.


I'm happy to see Roy Clark will be appearing. Well, especially happy because for some reason I thought he was dead. Really.

I think Charlie Daniels plays 365 days a year. I've seen him at fairs here, and also doing a midnight show at Pleasure Island in Disney World.


I couldn't figure out who the heck Abbacadabra was. Duh, it's an Abba tribute band.

Nice Sunday day ending as the sun has settled and the stars have risen....

The KCSM PBS station out here has a nice treat from the early 70's, "Ladies & Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones."

Excerpts from four Texas concerts in 1972.

"A glass of wine in her hand...."


"You can't always get what you want."

Here's where Fatty Arbuckle tripped in the mud, and President Ford ducked a shot from Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme.