When it looks like this outside, and you normally dine out seven days a week with the exception of Christmas:
You open the “saved for a blizzard” bottle of Opus, and the lovely Maria, home economist, makes spaghetti with tuna, a specialty:
This is called “gifts from the storm.”
© Alan Weiss 2013
Mom’s drinking wine? Uh oh. But why doesn’t she get Waterford too?
Mom spills.
Love your posts and attitude dealing with nemo. Of course I am in my backyard by the fire pit in 60 degree weather drinking a French Chablis wondering what all the fuss is about…exactly why do you folks choose to live up there?
Because there are four seasons here, a city called New York, and I’m capable of going wherever I like in the winter: St. Thomas in January, Naples next week. Why would you live there??