This Sunday, Nov. 1st, at 8-9 pm, Fox News is supposedly offering up a documentary on O’bama’s pre-presidential history.
Sounds pretty interesting since a week or so ago, O’bama declared war on Fox News.
Note: Our local listings, list a rerun of Huckabee in that time slot. 
Well, the boats are both in storage, the dock is coming out later this week, the first batch of falling leaves has been hauled off, and the fifthwheel is winterized and stored. Winter preparations are coming along nicely. Slowing things down a bit, has been the incessant rain. Today it’s 56 degrees, with a light wind, and raining steadily.
Between rain storms, we’ve tried a bit of shore fishing in the river, with no luck. A few minnow sized Perch, and a few equally sized Gobi’s. So far we haven’t seen a Salmon.
Good news comig down the pipeline, is that the AuGres River is scheduled to be dredged again. Either this fall, or next spring. We’re hoping strongly for this fall, spring sounds like a Walleye repellent. I’m wondering, after the dredging settles, will there be more fish in the river?
“Samhain” , (pronounced: ’sa win ) also known as All Hallow’s Eve, or Halloween.
It seems we’re well into the flu season, if you believe the hyped up media. With all the schools closing, I’m guessing there’s at least some truth to the media reports. We’re trying to be careful, staying away from public area’s as much as possible, and washing our hands a lot. In my age group, it doesn’t sound like I could get a flu shot, even if I wanted one, and with the government today stating that “They don’t know where the vaccines are going”, availability is likely to be less than good. Are you getting a flu shot?
Well, the vacation is completed. We had a great time. Chasing partridge with the dog, and sharing family time at our host’s cabin in Wolverine. Then off to “Traverse north”, (that would be parts north of Traverse City). We stayed (for the first and last time) at the Traverse City State park, (which is very close to the main road, going in and out of Traverse City). The traffic was very heavy, all day, and all night long.
We actually went into downtown Traverse City for a short period the first morning, but this quickly put us both into severe culture shock. It’s unbelievable how so many people, have so many things to do, and so little time to do it. Nice town, but, we couldn’t get out of town fast enough!
We made our leadoff “wine run” up Old Mission Penninsula. It was a good day, and we discovered an old, new favorite for the penninsula. Bower Harbor Vineyard. The folks at Bower Harbor are great (give Cooper a pat if you stop there), and their wines this year are above average in quality.
We visited everyone on the smaller penninsula, and probably spent to much on wine. The next day, we headed over to Leelanau Penninsula. (again spending to much!) This time discovering a new, new favorite. (not to over shadow the old, old favorite though). Warren Raftshol recommended Silver Leaf Vineyard, and I was very impressed. Though fairly new to wine making and working with young vines, Mark has produced most excellent wines. Later in the day we visited with BoskeyDel’s, and Bernie seemed in good health (my all time favorite vineyard). We spent a bit of time tasting and meeting some of Bernie’s old friends. It was a good visit.
On Leelanau we shied away from the vineyards who’ve implemented the new business model of paid tastings. I don’t know, maybe, just maybe, they had to go that way, because they weren’t making a profit. But personally, with the great increase in the cost per bottle at many vineyards, I feel that paid tastings are a bit extreme, not something that this old wine buyer can get to comfortable with. The result being (coupled with many tasting rooms offering much smaller tastes), if you’re wine touring and you want to get a good taste, in many establishments, its going to be difficult without spending extra cash.
So here are Greybeard’s recommendations:
Old Mission Penninsula: Don’t miss, Penninsula Cellars, Bower Harbor, Chateau Grand Traverse, and Chateau Chantel
Leelanau Penninsula: Bosky Del, Silver Leaf, Chateau Fontaine, Bel Lago, and on your way to Silver Leaf, you’ll pass Raftshol’s, if you like red’s you’ll want to stop there also.
Another recommendation would be the small town of Cedar, south of Bel Lago Vineyard. Cedar host’s Longview Vineyard, (already sold out of many of their products), and also, an excellent meat market and party store. The town is small and you’ll see the store and meat market side by side on the main street. The store had an excellent selection of ”needful things”, and the meat store had a similar selection of excellent jerky’s, sausages, brauts, cheese’s etc. If you don’t want to wine tour, you could actually pick up just about any wine from the area off of the store’s wine rack.
Everyone is open full hours through October, and the leaf color is near it’s peak. If you’re planning a trip, have fun!
North’er would be, farther north that I currently live. We’re headed out for a fall color tour/ family get together/ wine tour. The north’er part would be Wolverine, Mi. and the wine tour will be our old haunts, Leelanau Pennisula and Old Mission Pennisula.
There’ll likely be no posting over the next week or so.
“This is absolutely unbelievable! I was going through my morning routine, and I saw an e-mail telling me that Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. The first thing I did was check my calendar. No, it’s not April 1!” Quoted from “The Loft”.
“According to the Nobel committee’s own web site, all nominations must be submitted by February 1 of the year awarded. This means Obama’s international accomplishments are based on him being president for twelve days! Twelve days!”
Our world is very SICK!
How Obie did it in just 12 days!