Wining About Covid

April 19, 2020 We made a spice cake because it is my favorite cake.  For Jacqueline's birthday (week after mine) we were to make cheesecake but the only cream cheese we found was the spreadable kind and it wasn't going to work.  So- another week to make the cheesecake.  We had a bubbly for Jacqueline's birthday that tasted ok but smelled like wet cardboard.  There is still some in the fridge.  But we liked that "this little piggy stayed home" as we do in the times of covid. These mugs are from when Jacqueline and I drove from the Bay Area to New Mexico and stopped off in a fancy hotel (the Cromwell ) in Vegas.  We both loved it there and each got a pair of commemorative mugs.  The blog is about wine but the truth is we drink a lot more tea than wine and in the picture below we are drinking my favorite tea, a French Earl Grey. Jacqueline and I got to talking the other day about New Zealand vs United States approach to the corona virus and I think we both

April 13, 2020 On April 8th I woke up and three friends had sent me articles on New Zealand squashing the curve .  Every day I check the numbers.  United States, New Zealand, California, New Mexico and Colorado.  I think I'm transitioning from justifying my choice to run away to New Zealand to feeling bad that I think life will become much nicer for me much sooner than most of the people close to me.  Well, let's not focus on that too much. Instead: birthdays and wine!  I think I said that it is 5/8 people in my bubble's birthday during lockdown.  Jacqueline and Jeremey brought me cake in bed on my birthday as I was working, which was a lovely surprise.

April 5, 2020 Yesterday we decreed Formal Friday ( More Formal Friday here) .  Well- every Friday is Formal Friday in lockdown from here on out.  But I wrote it in our daily work standup notes and I was pleasantly surprised that people put on blazers and hats for our morning call.  The little things mean a lot right now. Can I even remember about the wine we've been drinking since the last blog?  Actually had a Syrah, from Elephant Hill.  Kimberly liked it quite a bit, Jacqueline said she had been enjoying all the fruity Pinot Noirs we'd been drinking.  She found the Syrah oaky.  But the next day she liked the Syrah more than the day before.  We've been finding that.  See the green in the plate on the right?  That's kale.  Kale reminds Kimberly of her old life and has now been eating it every day.  The first day out of self isolation, Jacqueline and Kimberly go to the grocery store.  Kimberly has been telling Jacqueline we should go to the grocery stor