How Green Was My House

We’ve all fallen prey to those “easy assembly kits” that promise you can construct something “in under an hour”. We’ve personally ordered several of them — from storage sheds to a tent cabin. Even with my secret weapon which is an extremely handy husband who can take apart a car engine and put it back together, rewire a house and tile a...

And Who’s Got the Sweetest Ride?

This weekend was Infineon Raceway’s Annual Historic Motorsports Festival. And you know at least half of this family can never pass up anything involving vintage, muscle or any other kind of cool car. So down to the Plaza we went to see a group of vintage race cars do a victory lap around the square and proceed on to the former Sebastiani Vineyards, where we’d be able to...

And I’d Like to Thank the Academy&...

Big doings up in Sonoma. It’s the Sonoma International Film Festival tonight through this weekend. Everyone who’s anyone is here. Distributors, film makers, Hollywood moguls, Lauren Hutton, Robin Williams. There’s only one celebrity who is not there. That would be me. It’s not as if I wasn’t invited. In fact, I didn’t even have to be invited. I...

¡Mas Hijinks en Español!

Hey Cisco! Qué hiciste el sábado pasado? Remember I said La Profesora had ordered up two essays in Spanish written in the simple past tense (El Preterito)? If you know any Spanish, you laughed your way through the first one yesterday. Why let the fun stop now. Here’s the second one, which is supposed to be about what I did on one of the days this past weekend. As my rusty...

Days of Wine and Rosé

It’s about time for another winemaking post. After all that was the raison d’être of my blog. I know it seems I get sidetracked, what with writing about worms, Johnny Cash and guns, but that doesn’t mean winemaking has stopped here at Two Terrier Vineyards. Even though we got everything in oak barrels months ago and the vines are just starting to emerge from winter...

We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Pro...

I’m back in San Francisco for a whirlwind round of Big City stuff: haircut, dentist appointment, DMV, etc. It also seemed like a good time to leave Sonoma to the birds and bees, coyotes and other mating critters. The Barn Swallows, which I’ve now discovered are actually Western Bluebirds, are trying to build nests in the eaves of the barn. And they’ve been very...