kerewin's whine cellar

All The Hungry Ladies

Richness of Embarrasment

Today was very messed up.

I woke up early and got some work done before doing stairs with a friend. I got home and showered and was trying to get out of the house. I had some things to get from the warehouse and then many customers to visit. So I was surprised when a supplier called me, hair dripping, no makeup, just dressed. "Hey, I am at ________, are you on your way?"

Last week I was with this supplier at a major account and ran into the buyer. We made an appointment for this morning, which I forgot to write down. So, hair wet, I tossed everything in my bag and got out the door. When I started the car I realized I was out of gas. I stopped to put in $5 and raced to the account. Just 25 minutes late. Wet hair and only the makeup I could put on in the car.

So, I was back on the way to the warehouse, running behind. I had some issues to talk about with my boss so I called him. We covered work issues and then some funny personal back and forth, as we were getting off the phone he said, "See you in a bit."

I replied, "You mean tomorrow, right?"

"No, we have our team lunch in 15 minutes."

"No, it is tomorrow," I said.

Nope. So I turned around and headed back to Seattle. I got to lunch about 5 minutes late, only to have most of the team roll in later and later. When just two people were missing I decided to get my work computer out and put in some orders.

Oops. I left the computer at home. When lunch was finally over (hello, one person was over an hour late!) I raced home and grabbed it. I barely got my orders in on time today, including two no-miss appointments. Today, I showed my clients a bottle of wine from Greece. It reminded me of our recent vacation.

When I finally got home tonight, I decided I deserved a glass of wine and lo and behold, there was a partial bottle of wine that reminded me of my vacation. So I grabbed the bottle and walked to the house. As I was walking up the stairs to my back door the bottle slipped and broke in about eight million pieces. In the middle of winter. Describing how I took the anti-freeze thing off the hose and still didn't get the steps cleaned off would require too much work. Suffice it to say, this is not my day and by the end it just got funny.

All I hope is that tomorrow is a lot more organized than today.

Full Moon

I took the digital camera with me to work yesterday because one of my accounts bought a lot of wine and I wanted to get a picture of the display to send on to my boss. Hours later, near sunset, I was at a restaurant, upon leaving I looked towards the Seattle skyline and I could see the full moon just coming up, hanging over the horizon. The setting sun lit everything up. I thought to myself, "Damn, I wish I had a camera!"

Pause, pause. Oh! So I pulled over and took this picture. Then the battery died. At least I got one photo.

Terrine Finale

The final result of all that work:

This is it right after I coaxed it out of its mold. I LOVE how the bay leaves and thyme turned out.


My friend Moni took these pictures (she was the only one with enough sense to bring a camera to Thanksgiving). Moni has macro down pat. I am seriously in love with this picture.


Up close and personal with all that great duck, pork, and chicken. The pistachios look especially good here.


Some very serious food here - three kinds of cheese (pierre robert, an aged gouda, and some sort of ash rubbed goat cheese if I remember right), marcona almonds, orange peel-marinated olives, tarragon mustard, blueberry ketchup, pickled cherries, drunken fig jam, rice crackers, crackers, bread and cornichons. How did we have room later for actual dinner? I will say it again, Thanksgiving was AWESOME.

Duck Terrine, Part 1
Duck Terrine, Part 2
Duck Terrine, Part 3