April 17, 2014
That’s right… our dreams of real wine glasses are shattered and lay in pieces in the kitchen sink after a big, big gust from today’s passing storm. We weren’t even at sea – just tied up in our slip when the gust pushed us over a few degrees. That was enough to send a drying wine glass tumbling to its demise.
These glasses were a recent experiment. We bought new plastic ones but when attempting to give away the old ones, the proprietors of Phil’s Place restaurant shook their heads at us and said “tacky, tacky, tisk, tisk, tisk.” We were shamed into buying real ones. (We also found we really liked drinking wine from glass during our rather extensive wine tasting trips. It just tastes better than from plastic.) The first two glasses lasted a few weeks.
We actually have two more glass ones left but if I were in the life insurance business, I don’t think I’d underwrite them. Soon, it’ll be back to plastic. -Rich
Update:
I guess things could be worse…
This storm that is passing through right now is actually the remains of cyclone Ita. It started out as a bad tropical storm that killed people and flooded the parts of the Solomon Islands. Then it turned into a cyclone and hit northeastern Australia. Now it’s come to our neighborhood. It’s no longer a cyclone, but we just saw 60 knots. We’re really healing over now – much worse that the wine-glass-killer gust.
