Brain Fog

As most of you know I have been dealing with migraines for awhile now, which leads me to this post. This will not be a rant... at least I don't think so, we shall see. Here we go.

I have decided to stop taking my migraine medication... I am just tired of the side effects. I'm not really sure that it is helping all that much anyway. I have been taking Topamax for about 6 months, and as far as I can tell the only effect it has had is to make me scatterbrained. I feel like the scarecrow from the wizard of oz. I used to be a great multitasker, a real duck in a row type person. Now most days I'm not sure where my ducks are or even if I have ducks. Just ask the Diva that is VERY unlike me. Also it makes me not really give a flip about anything if it isn't happening in my personal bubble..... also unlike me. Not to mention the fact that I can't taste anything, or spell..... or remember peoples names. So.... I have halved my dose and have been doing that for about a week, so far so good. Next week I shall do the same until the dosage is small enough that I can stop all together. Keep me in your prayers and hopefully the fog will lift :)

The Royal Family

I was working at the La La yesterday when to my surprise the Royal Family came through the door. It was a nice surprise, the day had been rather dull as not many customers had been in. They were on their way home from a checkup on the Queen an the new Prince and decided to pop in and say hi. Piper was fired up with ideas for vineyard names.... he has some pretty good ones that he told me about. I'm sure he will share them with you in due time. What I really wanted to say is how much I miss the Princesses... they have grown so much! There was a time when they parked their Rv in our yard for awhile until they decided on a castle. During that time I got to know the girls quite well. This was all before the Prince came along. HRHTDP was just starting to show the drama princess in her... her favorite lines were " I'm a bootiful pwincess " and " No Cole you're a stinky boy!" P#2 on the other hand was a tiny thing. She learned to crawl then walk in my living room, and she would do anything for a cheez-it. Times do change, and peoples lives take different direction, but at least we can still get together on occasion to catch up :)

Need a Name

I forgot to mention yesterday that we are trying to decide on a name for the vineyard. If ya'll have any great ideas please let me know! It's on the side of a hill..... but we don't really want to go with something bland such as " Hill side" Or " Brewer" The Mr. suggested "wildhorse" but I said no to that as well. Dazzle me with your creativity, piper I'm sure you will come up with something interesting.

Vineyard

It appears as though the Mr. is really going to go through with this vineyard thing. I keep thinking maybe it's all talk and that it will all blow over, but we have got part of it planted..... so here we go. Bonnie, a good friend of ours, told me that grapes like alot of sun and that they like to struggle. We should have the BEST grapes!!! Our soil is so bad , it is a mixture of grey clay and rock. Winemaker says they will grow , so that is all the encouragement Mr. Brewer needed. We have enough space to do about seven 120 ft. rows. This year I think we will start with 2. We have Cabernet and Chardonnay I'm not sure if we will stick with those two types or if we will do others... perhaps Merlot. I haven't taken pic's yet.... when I do I will post them, as for my senior pic. I haven't seen any of those in forever..... maybe diva has some.

This is a sunset at the winery.... it is my desktop picture. There I posted a picture . MISSION ACOMPLISHED!! I tag no one :)..... Unless they just want to.

Save The Vines!

Last night was a long one indeed, at least for some. Mr. Brewer and I along with Danger Boy spent the night with Winemaker at the winery trying to keep the vines from getting frost damage and / or dying. The vines have started blooming and with the low temps last night not only were we in danger of losing the grape crop for the year, but, there was a great danger of losing the vines as well. Winemaker was really worried, but he has good redneck friends. We had nearly 30 barrels that we filled with anything that would burn and scattered them throughout the front vineyard. That kept that one safe, as for the rest, Winemaker spent the night on the tractor with the sprayer. There is a special chemical you can spray but it only gives you a couple of degreese protection. Anyway we think that most of the vines made it. Winemaker and Mr. Brewer are very sleepy this morning as they were awake all night. It must not have been too bad though because Mr. Brewer brought home vine starts....I guess we are going to start our own vineyard.

Boyscout Recap

I have a correction to make! The fourth place that they won was only in the knot tying competition. There were 18 different competitions, everything from war paint to knife throwing to sign language. I don't remember everything. What it all boils down to is out of 18 events, our troop placed in 16 and out of the 16... 7 of them were 1st place. One of those awards goes to Dalton for 3rd place den cheif. We also won the big award for camp spirit, and the boys all earned their polar bear patch for the temp getting down to 32 Friday night. I was cold down by the water!!! We have crossover next meeting as all of the boys advance to the next rank......so if anyone has boys who would like to join now is a great time. Til next time.... :)

Cole-isms...

Cole dosen't usually use words incorectly but yesterday on the way to boyscout camp, I guess because he was so excited he had a couple of lines that I just have to share with you guys. First of all Sunday is his birthday so he has some cash on him that has been sent in the mail. He wanted to take it to camp with him, and I told him that he didn't need it and he said " but Mom they are going to have a confession stand!" I just laughed and said Ok then you can take 5 bucks. However I did ask him what he was going to confess and he got embarassed. Then later in the day he asked me why I wasn't spending the night with him and Dad at camp, and I told him because girls aren't allowed to sleep at boyscout camp. He said..."I'll get you some fake whispers, and you can make a beard." I said " you mean whiskers?" he said " whatever...you know what I'm talkin bout."

I went and hung out with the guys for a while today. They are all very tired, dirty, hungry and a few of them are sun burned, but they are all having a great time. Our troop placed 4th out of 13 troops so that is pretty good concidering most of our boys are really young. We are pretty proud. Dalton Matthews was our den cheif, that means he is like a big brother that came to visit and help out, because parents and the scout master are not allowed to help during any compitition or event. Many thanks to Dalton! Well I'm tired and I have a birthday to get ready for tomorrow so off to bed I go! Goodnight :)

Knights of the Vine

We held our first Knightly meeting last night at the winery. It was very enjoyable. Winemaker took it a step further than I even thought he was going to. I knew the meetings were going to be very informative and that he was going to explain alot about the wines that we were tasting but he is taking things a step further, which I really appreciate. He is taking us all the way from the vine to the bottle. This week he discussed bottle shapes and colors, what shapes and colors go with what wines and how it all got started and so on. Each meeting we will have a different topic before we begin our tasting. This will help with our appreciation of wine even if we don't like a perticular kind at least we will be able to enjoy it's qualities. I for one like to know what I'm doing and why in order to feel like I'm doing something well, but that's just me. Healso said at some point we will get to taste Opus One. That stuff runs any where from 150 to 300 per bottle. That my friend is worth my membership fee right there.
The menu last night were all red zinfandels. I learned that I am not a big fan of red zin, however, I did find two that were drinkable. Here is our list...
#1 A. Mano
#2 Sutter Home
#3 Francis Ford Copola
#4 Gnarly Head
#5 Dancing Bull
#6 Legends

Of course Legends won! No really... He didn't even want us to tast his because it wasn't finished he pulled it straight out of the barrel....unfiltered....and it smelled soooooooo good the aroma was to die for, chocolate and cinnamon like I can't even find words to describe. It is also so much smoother than the others almost like velvet, which makes it not like a red zin at all, so he says it is an unfair comparison. Therefore if you take that on out of the mix, I'm not a big red zin fan, but, Francis Ford Copola was in my opinion definately drinkable. I think everyone else agreed as well, it seemed to be the most popular of the evening......other than Winemakers.