Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
food & drink

new zealand marlborough pinot noir

The short guy and I mixed up another batch of wine this evening. I always like having two batches going at once. Bottling one batch of wine is a bit of work, but bottling two batches is surprisingly not twice the work, so that is my reason. Plus it’s always cool to add fifty-plus bottles of wine to the wine rack in one day.

I’m still waiting for my other three kits to arrive. One was supposed to come in January, but hasn’t been shipped to my supplier (Thomas Feed Mill) yet. The second is scheduled for March, and the third for April. And, I really, really think I’m going to mix up a batch of Strawberry-Zinfandel this summer. It isn’t definite, but if I manage to catch some strawberries on sale somewhere, I’m going to do it.

health & wellness

today’s health news

Is this the freakiest thing you’ve ever seen in your life or what?

And, I don’t know why I even read stuff like this. I should get a hypochondriac filter for my web browser. It would save me a lot of stress. Just remind me to get a flu shot next year. At least I’ve prepared myself for this by reading Stephen King’s The Stand about a half dozen times. The real question is–if you survive the pandemic, will you go to Boulder, CO or Las Vegas, NV?

celebrations

another birthday dinner

My mom’s all about celebrating birthdays, so she had us over today and made a delicious dinner in order to properly celebrate Brian’s birthday. It was an enjoyable way to spend an afternoon. And, Brian didn’t have practice this evening so we didn’t have to rush home like we always do. So, I guess this concludes Brian’s Week-Long Birthday Celebration.

Jake was plum-tuckered out on the ride home and slept for most of it. Pappy always tires him out. It took him a bit to recover from his nap, but he seems rather chipper right now. I hope he goes to sleep tonight because I want check out the Saturday Night Live special that’s on at 9:00 (and not be interrupted every 5 minutes while I’m doing so).

out and about

out for drinks

Since Jake is staying at my parent’s, we decided to go out for a few drinks this evening. We went to the Johnstown Brewing Company. This turned out to be a good decision because we knew the barmaid and she gave us our first round of drinks for free (thanks Tiffany!). Anyway, it’s 11:00 and we’re already home. I guess you could call us pathetic. Or drunk. Those were some good drinks.

music

makin’ music

The past few days have been productive on the music front. Brian finally got around to writing the lyrics for (a)pathetic. And, he recorded them as well. I still need to write/record the guitar solo then it will be done. It will be the first solo for me, so it should be interesting. Worst case, Brian will have to write something on piano and I’ll just play it. That will wrap up our first rottenstone EP. We’re thinking of doing a cover song as a bonus track, but that shouldn’t take long, seeing that the song has already been written.

I managed to write and record the bass for the newest (and perhaps best) East of Eve song. This one went really quick for me. I’m getting better at figuring out Shawn’s guitar parts (general rule: always start with B). And I started tabbing out my stuff as I write it so that I don’t need to figure everything out every time I practice. I can’t believe it took me this long to come up with the idea. At any rate, either I’m improving on the bass or I’m becoming a Kip Winger clone. Either way, my work is done for now.