Both Jeanne and I had rough days at work yesterday, so we met to knit at a wine bar instead of our usual coffee shop. Really, who were we kidding? We were there to talk and drink some wine and laugh at old knitting books and the current issue of Knitter’s. Everyone knows that it’s too dark to knit in a wine bar – although I did pick up 13 stitches, then knit across those 13 plus 8 more stitches. At that point, I decided to rest on my laurels and not try to pick up the other 13 stitches for the heel.
Anyway, we each tried a tasting flight: Jeanne tried the shiraz/syrah flight and I tried the pinot noir flight. It was quite fun to sip our little glasses of wine, make notes on our flight sheets, and toss off pseudo-oenophilic jargon, describing one wine as “delightfully undistinguished” and another as having “deep fruity overtones.” (Well, we thought we were funny at the time…)
Yum.
Chaos? Hey, Chaos, can you come out of your “hiding” place and wish Peeve a happy birthday? And maybe send get well wishes to Mrs Pao’s husband, Pao, who had surgery today?
“How did you know where I was?!”
I’ve never been to a wine bar. Sounds exciting!
I think it is so funny when cats hide like that! I can’t see you so you can’t see me, even if I am hiding under a box/behind a shoe that is half my size.
“I’m not hiding in here. Go look for Chaos somewhere else.” Oh man, I could have used a trip to the wine bar too yesterday. I had to resort to other means to soothe away the days woes. Hope you guys are better today. It’s OK Chaos, come out of the box now.
Mmm…wine. I could use a trip to a wine bar now. Wine improves almost everything.
Now that sounds like my kind of knit night!
Tasting flights sound good to me!
Chaos has kind of a short tail for as big as he is….of course I’m sure this isn’t his good side.
Yummy wine! I wouldn’t even try to knit in a wine bar, my sight is as bad enough as it is:)
LOLOLOL! That was a great caption for that picture! Never a dull moment with Chaos around I am sure!
A knit night with tasting fights- you’re my kind of girl! 😉 I’ve only been to a wine bar once, but I enjoyed making the waiter/”winetender” cringe with my “oenophilic” proclamations. I thought I was pretty funny, too, but after 5 or 6 glasses, there’s not too much that isn’t funny, LOL! Take care, Chris! 🙂
Hope you had one for me! Rough days at work suck. Actually, most days at work suck.
Oh, I could have used a trip to a wine bar this week too. Course we don’t have a wine bar. Hope today is a better day for both of you.
Just what I wanted for my birthday – a shiny black cat butt!
🙂
The coffee house where my knitting group meets on Sunday afternoons serves wine and coffee. Fab combo for knitting.
Ha! Reminds me of a little kid, “I can’t see you, so you can’t see me!”
A wine bar sounds fabulous. I’ve never been to one.
Mmmmmm… wine….
Oh yeah. A flight of wine is WAY better than coffee and knitting.
Change your sock club button! 🙂
Wine flights…fun! What a great knitting idea! OK, maybe a plain good idea. Not so much for the knitting. 🙂
Ahaha LOVE the caption for Chaos’ picture! That wine looks yummy. I’ve been thinking about a drink all day.
Oooo wine… I love the scene from Sideways when Paul Giamatti’s character uses all the wine jargon.
pao says thank you for the positive thoughts. The op seems to have gone well – not too much pain at the moment.
I can’t knit and drink wine – hic…
Oh my god with the day I am having, I CANNOT tell you how good that wine looks right now….
*insert obnoxious wolf whistle here* Whatcha gonna do with all that junk? All that junk down in your trunk?
Looks like fun. I wouldn’t know though – wine makes my head itch. Violently.
Where did you go, ‘zackly? The Pirate would probably enjoy it…
sounds like fun, although perhaps not *exactly* conducive to productive knitting! 😀
~Eileen
I’ve never heard of a wine bar but it sounds like it would be right up my alley!
Ohh…I could use me a wine tasting on most days! A shame there’s not a wine bar near work. That could be dangerous.
Does my Pete look like Chaos or what?
http://www.theminx.com/minxknits/pete06.jpg
any wonderful earthy undertones? LOL. a pic where chaos isn’t hamming it up for the camera?
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Do you know the name of the book with the knitting realtor? It sounds interesting!
oooh! J was thinking of buying a bottle of wine — do you have any reccommendations? The stuff he bought last time was barely tolerable.
I’ve been home sick all day, glued to the floor in front of the bed wrapped in blankets. Chaos, you should see my two girls, they are both passed out next to me.
oh my God Chaos is SO funny!
Carmen “hides” under the bed like this- with her big butt and tail hanging out!
I need to take one of those flights right about now!
Looks like fun!!!
oh, I love the idea of a wine flight!