Sunday Morning News from the dining room table

[Topshelf14-cl]

Hey Vince,
Sorry to hear about your accident. Take it easy and get healed up. Got to have you ready for the Crawl!

[Vince]

Originally Posted by Topshelf14

Hey Vince,
Sorry to hear about your accident. Take it easy and get healed up. Got to have you ready for the Crawl!

I am ready the still is HOT & working hahahaha

[Vince]

Originally Posted by Topshelf14

Hey Vince,
Sorry to hear about your accident. Take it easy and get healed up. Got to have you ready for the Crawl!

I am ready the still is HOT & working hahahaha

[Vince]

I should have 5 bottles ready for next Saturday , I hope you guys are READY !!!!!!! HIC, dammmmmmmmmm this stuff is KICKING my former fat @$$, last time through the still it should hit 140 Proof or better hahahahahahahaha

[Ceedee]

Originally Posted by Vince

I should have 5 bottles ready for next Saturday , I hope you guys are READY !!!!!!! HIC, dammmmmmmmmm this stuff is KICKING my former fat @$$, last time through the still it should hit 140 Proof or better hahahahahahahaha

Hot Damn Vince! Actually, maybe your new nickname should be "Hawkeye" or sumpthin? Can't wait to hear more on this!

CD

[mrgatorman]

Originally Posted by Ceedee

Hot Damn Vince! Actually, maybe your new nickname should be "Hawkeye" or sumpthin? Can't wait to hear more on this!

CD

Now thats damn good comedy...I dont care who you are.

[Vince]

Good morning to all you Mothers out there it is Mothersday & my Birthday today , ( I was born on a Friday the 13th just in time for Mothers day ) hahahahaha way back in the 18th. century , well the body feels like it anyway !
it has been a very busy week here in da burgh between soccor , dancing & piano for the grandsons there is this thing called work dammmmm I dont have time for everything hahahaha , beside work & brewing coffee distilling wine & smoking cigars I dont have time to collect my birthday "Present" from my wife, we are both getting to tired to stay up all night , & 30 years ago thats all we did , hahahahaha , but now when I look at her , I still get that same old feeling , BUT it never lasts as long anymore Dammmmm , Oh well at lest it still works, maybe not as well as it did when we were young , but I still havent had a Viagra or anything in that family of medication, But I think I might want to try it some time in the future , but with my luck we will get company about 20 minutes after I take it , or the grandsons will call & want to come over ,or a few of my cigar buddies will stop by the Qtr.Deck for a smoke & a scotch, , them well I can tell them get the H3ll out I just took a viagra , but its hard to explain that to a 9 year old hahahaha !
Barb got 2 dozen roses from me for mothers day & I got 2 boxes of cigars , a bottle of Craigenmore & a bottle of Tallamore Due Irish whisky & a Weather Report DVD /CD set ( they play jazz)
so I have a great day planned , I will be grilling a nice set of thick cut rib steaks ( that have been in a marinade all night ) some corn on the cob, a tossed salad & I might just open a Bottle of wine with dinner , maybe a nice Italian red , I dont know for sure as yet , mabe a a beer to go with the beef, I havent had much beer since the by pass so maybe a beer will hit thet taste budsa better than a bottle of wine , hey maybe BOTH hahahaha with a scotch night cap I should be doing just fine !
I stopped to see an old friend I havent seen in years , he hadent seen me since I lost all the weight & at first didnt know who the H3ll I was but the hair on the face & the voice were the dead giveaway , he was my eye doc many years ago but he moved his office to a bigger location & & my old eye doc moved to a closer one to me so I switched back to the orginal one , just a mass of confusion trying to juggle doctor apointments kids & daily life so I just go to the one who is closest & has the longest hours to fit us all in . speaking of all in , I did just that in a holdem tournment on the first had Blind , bet my @$$ off with out looking , had a pair of 3's in the hole & didnt look , got a 3 on the river & beat a pair of kings , went all in with out looking on the next hand & didnt get Jack high , oh well it was a fund raiser so I got to play 2 hands, one more than the guy with the pair of Kings got to play ! hahaha , it was fun anyhow
the bike is back in my daughters garage , I need to get the windshield fixed, the duct tape is holding but it is realllllly tacky looking , so it will be going to the shop this week I hope & have the old windshield removed & the frame mounted faring
re- installed , I have no idea why they guy took it off in the first place , oh well that life !
I just found out that an old buddy from Cigar afficanado forum , King Kong had a stroke & his doc told him NO MORE CIGARS , personally I would find an other doc but Jeff is sening me his humidor & cigars for safe keeping hahahahah , Poor guy , the doc screws him by cutting off his cigars & now he is trusting ME with his cigars , dammmmmmm I feel sorry for the poor guy , some one remind me to get a check out for him for the small fire that will envelope a few of the cigars when they get here !!! after all I do need to check them & make sure they were not damaged in transit !!
well the first pot of Kona is now history & it is the last cup of coffee in my Cusesta Rey travel mug, I am retiring it it after to many years of being dropped, chipped & the lid being burnt by wayward cigars , so it is time to put it on the shelf & let it serve as a reminder of Great cigars & great coffee , I found a NEW "old " Cuesta Ray mug in my closet , still in the plastic bag it came in , dammmmm how lucky can you get , the logo is old & faded on the old cup from repeated trips through the dish washers hands
( Barb's ) so Now I have the same cup, no dents chips or burn marks & a nice shinny logo , dammmmm to be young agian hahahaha
Hark I hear the timer going off , the second Freedom Press pot of Kona is ready & that Maduro masterpiece is calling my name , time for me to get off the computer, & head out to the Qtr.Deck for a sip of Craigenmore & some smoked salmon with cream cheese on a toasted bagle with some vadalia onion & tomatoes , & thats all foir today folks , time to CELEBRATE !
hahahaha Enjoy, Vince

[mrgatorman]

HEPPY BIRTHDAY...Brutha...

[Ceedee]

Vince, always a part of my Sunday is reading your quips and quotes from the "Sunday Morning news...". Have a wonderful Birthday and enjoy those steaks! Wish your wife Barb a wonderful Mother's Day too... Will have a fine cigar in your honor later today. Here's to another fine year!

Cheers!

CD

[Vince]

Thanks guys for the good wishes , I just stopped by the computer to check a web site I heard on the radio, must have coppyed the addy wrong , cause I ended up at a **** site AGAIN hahahaha , time to get back to the Maduro Masterpiece , & scotch !

[koapoorpeople]

Hey Vince, great post, always a good read. I hope that your HOOCH is ready, because I'm bustin my Cigar Crawl cherry this weekend!!

[Topshelf14-cl]

Happy birthday Vince! Lookin forward to seeing you next weekend!

[Vince]

the still has cooled & everything is in the bottles , 5 new bottles & ONE old one from last year, how it got over looked I will never know , this batch is just under 100 proof with out adding any water, S M O O O O T H , HIC hahahaha

[Vince]

GOOOOOOD morning all you herfers & lurkers it is Sunday 20 May 2007, the day AFTER Cigar crawl #9 , dammmmm I must be showing my age now as most of the shops are handicapped accessable & I used the ramps not the stairs hahahahaha , well we all had a great time but a few did get a weeee bit to much to drink, ( NOT ME hahaha ) , we went up to the hotel of departure Friday to get some what of a good nights sleep& be at it early, but not so early that we had an hour drive to the hotel had I slept at home , well the coffee shop was supposed to open at 7 am & at 10 after 7 the waitress shows up & walks in to a DISASTER , no one had cleaned up or restocked frommthe night before , the place was a $ H I T H O L E , but with no place in walking distance & the bus leaving in 45 minutes I jumped in with both guns blazing, hey I was in the food business over 40 years & I know what it is like to run a place , so I bussed a few tables made coffee & had all the crawlwers filled with coffee by 7:30 I went into the kitchen myself & cooked a few eggs & went back out to the dining room to slid them down my gullet, bam , Time to OPEN the "Brandy " before we get on the bus , ahhh yeaaaaaa, Thursay was a good vintage hahahaha
the driver was a moocher , didnt smoke cigars but wanted a bit of tribute from each shop , hey buddy its you job, you get paid , at the end of the night we tip , but he was hitting up all the shops for a weee bit of kick back, hey man I brought you all the business you should toss the driver a bone , what a sleeze !
well the morning went off with out a hitch other than breakfast being a bit of a botched one car parade , OH yea after I did all the clean up coffee serving & cooking I got a Bill for my breakfast ! S.O.B.
well back to the day, the shopa were all ready for us & we had a great time , many tall tales were told & a few even thouth they had a grain of truth to them hahaha , I didnt fair well in the prise dept. this year as i had in the past, I di win a 50 count box of Cheep Bastard Churchills , I havent yet opened them & have no idea waht they are like but I plan on getting into them come Monday at work, hahahah work, I dont think of it as work , I think of it as a retirement lifestyle with fringe bennifits !!!
I was able to eat a nice lunch & the salad & veggies at supper , Brought the big slab of beef home with me & Barb & I will split it today !
wellit is almost noon so I am stopping here & getting off the computer for a few hours , havent had my don carlos yet & its about time to get some smoke in my face, OHHHH $ H I T I almost for got yeasterday cigar count, first up was a verrrrry old Masterpiece maduro , in place of the #3 for the start of the day , it was a fine smoke lasted from 8 to 11 AM , then a Bahia gold maduro rubusto , them lunch a Camacho select robusto , shotgunned right into a Mambacho churchill , I had a nice little cigar buzz going by then ( well the brandy helped a weeee bit !) hahaha time for a little coffee & Jamisons with a shot of Kaula , dammmm gooooood stuff !
after the mambacho I took a small break but cam back with a Vengence for the remainder of the eveing ( not counting the time I was eating ) I had a cigar fired up, when the door prises were being awarded I went for a lighter smoke ( Lord know why ) A Candella Camacho left over from St.Pattys day ! , the reat of the day is still a bit of a blur to me as I did continue to drink well int tot night , but I did manage to get home & get a good niths sleep , I am a bit worse for ware today but I will be hitting the shower verry soon & then its off to the Qtr.Deck & pick up right were I left off last night ! Enjoy, Vince

[Vince]

Well Kids its that time again , it is Sunday 27 May 07 , & a wonderful day here in da Burgh, I have recovered from the cigar crawl to some extent, but it really kicked in last Sunday afternoon when I fell asleep in the Qtr.Deck, it was a Nice 2 hour nap ! well back to the cigars & forget about the nap , thats just old age creeping up on me, dont laugh it will happen to you some day sooner than you want !!
I have been enjoying all the fruits of the cigar search & destroy this past week, smoking some old vintage cigars that I bought on past crawls & replaced them this year to let them age a bit I broke open a box of Monte #2 torps that I have had since 1988, Swwwwweeeeeet honey of the Gods , a Tanzanian Peaberry coffee & a snifter of 17 Y.O. Bowmore I was in hog heaven , I had Spyro Gyro on the CD player with some Miles & Coletrain at the ready, some one must have mis filed the Cd's as I removed a disc from the package it was Beethoven not Miles so I went to the Beethoven case & there was Miles , I bet he had a great conversation with the old guard & who's to say next time around Beethoven will swing ! hahahahaha
I haven't been doing much in the kitchen this past week, but yesterday I did a mess of Veggies on the grill, , from,asparagas & Corn on the cob to Zucchini , , dammm good stuff , BUT man the natural gas that it forms hahahahaha , just dont get down wind of me today hahahaha

today will just be a few burgers on the grill, , no Buns , I had all the bread I am going to eat today at breakfast, one lone slice of Oatmeal bread , dammm I got on the scale & put on 3 more pounds , thats Gotta STOP RIGHT NOW , it has been 3 years since my By Pass I dont want to slide back into old habbits like PIGGING OUT ON ANYTHING & EVERYTHING , back to the tofu & lots of water, tofu for breakfast is a must from here on out, I did have one slice of backon , one egg & one slice of toast for breakfast this morning but thats the end, , the egg is ok with the tofu , but I need to get rid of the fats & the carbs, to some degree, a little of both can go a long way

I got a box in the UPS shipment thisd past week adressed to Dick Head @ King Beaver Cigars , well being the brave soul I am I opened it , it was the stuff I lerft on the bus when I was on the crawl, a box of Anjehos & a box of Troya maduro , only a few missing from one box & the other one was still shrink wrapped so it was a little less likely to be purged of a few sticks hahahahaha
Thanks Rob I would have forgotten my ass had it not been attached ! , I know where my head was , it had a cigar stuck in its mouth & a drink at the ready !!
My wife & I went "shopping" yesterday afternoon ( she shopped & I Paid ) & we got some hanging baskets of flowers, well last night her & the daugher went "shopping " again so I was able to sit on the back deck watch the birds at the feeder the Hummingbirds dart from the plants & watch the deer at the salt lick while smoking a nice OLD Opus X torp , sipping a fine old snifter of Laugavulin & a cup of Espresso , the taste buds were dancing last night to be sure !, since the wife & daughter were shopping last night I didnt get to go for my Saturday night Cigar ride, & dammmm gladd of it, gas is now $3.09 at the discount stations & $3.15 at the station where they Pump it for you , dammm what ever happened to the kids who had jobs at the local gas station pumping gas , checking oil & washing windows , FULL SERVICE was what it was called, I bet a lot of you young guys never saw anything like that, the Atlantic station near the place I grew up & the Texaco station across the street from it , were FULL SERVICE stations , the Gus pump jokeys wore BOW ties & hats, & when you Paid 29 cents for a gallon of gas, you got your moneys worth of service, empty the ashtrys wash the windows , check the tires antifreeze & oil, all while the pump was filling , on Saturdays you got the front & rear floor vaccumed when you got a fill up & Sundays the place was CLOSED !, dammmm I guess I am showing my age ! hahahaha
the weather has been almost like August here at the tail end of May , warm evenings sitting on the back deck coffee, cigars ,scotch, & great music, what a way to end a day ! , Time to fire up the second pot of Kona pull out a Don Carlos #3 & get the day off to a good start !
Enjoy, Vince