RANDOM SCENES

Snowing like crazy at the moment. One of our resident hawks (little guy) went slamming into the window next to me. Made me drop a participle. He got up, shook himself off (well kind of) then rapidly looked around the surrounding area as fast as his fuzzy head would allow. Though some might say he was scanning for prey, I contend he knocked himself halfway silly and was checking to see if any of his "peeps" saw him boink the door. Hard to look formidable and bloodthirsty hunter of prey when you are playing tag with a solid glass door!

Took our usual whirlwind trip to Rogers City for Thanksgiving - up and back in two days. Good trip, good company and way too much food crammed into two small a space and time. Hmmm sounds like a Star Trek adventure. Caught a break on the weather, though a little dicey on the way back. Several ballerina shows from incautious drivers who apparently believe they glide above the snow when traveling at high speeds. Their only brush with reality comes when they attempt to stick a landing from their highway double axle headfirst in the ditch. Oh well-the show was good.

The week before the Grand Rapids contingency converged for a wine tasting. Yes, once a month we must celebrate wine no matter what. Each of us derived a rating system, in some cases it was an X-rated system- Robels??? This party included Godiva chocolate samples. We we all took turns making forays to the sample "girls" feigning surprise that they were there handing out samples which we then parlayed into whole platefuls of heaven. With ten people available, that translated into a lot of "heaven". Oh yeah the wine was good too.

Colleen, our resident beer loving woman, even found a couple that she liked or at least didn't dump into the sangria pitcher (that's what I call the spit cup). Couldn't get anyone to drink it though. Wine is a acquired taste, like scotch, caviar, asparagus and squirrel. Yeah Man.