A Day On the Farm!

It has always been my dream to live on a Farm.  I am still working toward that ... but in the meantime I try to live the "Farm Life" ... My own little version anyway.

The past few weekends have been so glorious here ... 50 - 60 degrees in January!  The typical Saturday morning starts with a visit to Sally's Farm ... for Fresh Eggs.  

Every day fresh eggs are put into the little refrigerator in this side of the Barn.  Honor System, drop your $3.00 in the box and take your eggs.  Have you ever eaten fresh eggs ... you will never want to buy eggs at the grocery again!

 This past weekend there was a note from the Chickens!  They were a little behind in production since the holiday baking season kind of took a toll on them.  They are rapidly gearing back up!

Driving off of this Farm you feel the peace of this quiet life.  Boston is only 40 minutes away so we can get the city fix if we want.  But mostly we love this!

Then there is Lou, our milkman!  Lou comes every week with our fresh, organic milk!  The glass bottles that it comes in makes it taste colder and fresher ... and I never have to run to the grocery because we are out of milk!

 I knew Lou would become part of the family when he made friends with the beasts in our yard!!

Because of the mild temperatures we have been able to keep up with the brush burning ... Christopher is the man in charge of the Fire Pit!

This was the beautiful "Wolf" moon from our back yard this past weekend ... what a great way to end a Day on our "little" Farm!!

Have a wonderful weekend ... going to be a little colder for us here!

xo,

kim

How dry I am.

It is 5:30PM and nearly 70 degrees as I sit out on my balcony at the beautiful Hotel Del Coronado just outside of San Diego. Feel sorry for me yet… didn’t think so. Enjoying the beautiful evening sunset, a thought popped into my head. After the initial shock of actually having one, I figured I would write it down quick before it died of loneliness. Here it is.” Tannins”, what do you think so far?

The wine world constantly muses about Tannins, smooth and velvety, graceful, well balanced, polished, front of the mouth, back of the mouth, mid palate….good lord it sounds like a verbose orthodontist selling braces by describing the way adorable little Ernie’s teeth are going to look in three years when your bank account is completely drained. In fact Tannins are hugely complex and involve multiple chemical reactions. If you would like to read about them there is a pretty good entry level article at this link www.wineanorak.com/tannins.htm. Too me, tannins are more about feeling than taste. If a wine, Red in particular is really tannic, it almost feels like it the moisture has been sucked completely out of your mouth after you drink it. Tannins can be felt in the back of your mouth, the middle or the front of your mouth. If the tannins are “well Balanced and smooth” you can feel it all over your mouth imparting a silky or smooth, some say velvety texture. If for instance you latch on to a young, really powerful Bordeaux that is opened 26 seconds after bottling and you take a giant swig…it might make your mouth feel like you won the Eastern Massachusetts stamp lick off shattering the old record of three hundred stamps licked and posted in 2 minutes, 16 seconds…that’s tannic. Tannins can also add flavor…usually bitter and brought on by the oak barrel aging process, but more generally they are simply about the feel. Smooth, silky or velvety; dry as a bone or my top lip is stuck to my front teeth, your talkin Tannins baby. Watch out, next week …Terroir. Until then,

Enjoy the wine

DM