One nice thing about being on vacation is sleeping in. This morning I slept in until just past five. It felt glorious and it was one of those rare mornings in which nothing hurt. I haven’t had one of those is a very long time. While TBG slumbered on, I messed around in LJ and got caught up with things, sort of. The internet is dicey here and ( Read more... )

After the bunkhouse fell through, we made plans to head up to the Foothills for a couple of days. We are driving up to Sutter Creek this afternoon and then our friends will drive up tomorrow and join us. There will be a visit to Taste tomorrow night and then on Friday night we are going to a Winemaker's dinner at the Imperial Hotel in Amador City ( Read more... )

This was from the Imperial Hotel's dining room coq au vin and grilled polenta

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We got rain, lovely, lovely rain. Granted it was only a couple of hours worth, but it came down hard and it was great to have puddles to stamp in. The Boss man and I stood and watched it for the longest time, despite (or perhaps in spite) the fact that we both have stuff to do ( Read more... )

Here we have The Big Guy and Butter and then one of Butter and Greg


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Some of you may ( or maynot) know that my series of the Foothills feautres a restaurant called Taste.  Taste is a very real resaturant located in Plymouth.  It's got great food and have never failed to leave an impression upon us.

We just found out today that it has been voted one of the top five restaurants (of its size) in the country.  How ( Read more... )