Tidbits

Sleepover at Ikea - Maybe this is the only way to get to the $1 early enough…
A ramen bath - Japanese spa with special baths resembling instant noodles. I wanna play!
Old age homes for dogs - 1) Old dogs don’t like to be abandoned at strange places. 2) Playing with young puppies will probably cause the older dogs to die faster due to exhaustion.
A remote-controlled pigeon - Oh the poor thing…
An article on a brilliant method of teaching grade schoolers about bats and rabies. I smell a lawsuit.
Will trade beer for Crumpler bags. Tempted by the beanbag and messenger bags…

Happy Thanksgiving

October 10, 2005, 2:23 am

Should I be thankful for something? Who should I be thanking? Indeed, giving thanks for life and its joys is too much of a religious act then. If I can’t thank God, who can I thank? Had turkey today. Gobble gobble.

Did a wine tour of the Niagara Wine Route on Saturday. A little bit more sun would have been nice. Visited about eight wineries in general, a bit over the recommanded 4-5 a day. Apparently there’s a law preventing wineries from letting you taste more than 4 oz at any one winery. I think I might have broken that law. Ice wines are expensive.

Quick breakdown:

Kittling Ridge: skip please
Thirty Bench Wines: very nice place, huge assortment of wines to try, good descriptions too.
Angels Gate Winery: nice building
Legends Estates Winery: what “estate”? Ugly building, cheap metal walls, guard dogs all over the place. Junk yard. Charges $0.50 per taste. Has fruit wines.
Crown Bench Estates: really unique ice wines, free to taste
Vineland Estates: too commercialized, charges tasting fees that they never asked for though..
Flat Rock Cellars: really cool building, relatively new winery. Charges $3 to try four types.
Peller Estates: *very* commercialized. Have set list of samples with fees.