Wedding Wine Advice

The Seattle Times had a good article about how to choose wedding wines, you can read the whole thing here.

I'm in the process of wondering what wine we should have at our wedding and am looking for additional advice. I guess I'm looking for ideas (besides wine in a box).

Do you have any?

News of the Cute

Wolf Pups!

These wolf pups are of the critically endangered Mexican gray wolf variety and were born at Wolf Haven International nearby in Tenino.

I can't wait to go visit cute, but endangered, pups.

The new place

Sassy on the back porch
Originally uploaded by emjanero.

I know i've promised folks to post/send pictures of the our house in Olympia. So here is a start to that. When we were house shopping, our astute real estate agent noted, as soon as you two walk into a house, you immediately walk through it and out the back door. And she was right. We were like yes, yes, nice layout - but what does the land look like. So I'm sure that observation caused her to drive out 101 and find what we were looking for, a little house on a big lot in an amazing setting.

So that's where we stand. This post had a couple pictures. When I look at the ones I've taken so far, most of them are of the land out back. Go figure..oh, and of course - the Sass.

It might just be a tempo thing

I'm adjusting to my narrowband lifestyle here in Olympia. I've noticed that the speed of my Internet connection might also be on parallel to the pace of my new life: that is, a little slower. Now some things in Olympia are slow and some are not.

Slow: Most kinds of service, but particularly coffee. so, i must say that the coffee is great. we have local shops and roasters: cafe vita, batdorf and bronson, and mud bay coffee. And you would be hard pressed to find a more delicious, lovely crafted cup of coffee. But it took me a while to get used to the time it takes. But it's not just the devotion to the craft, it's that everyone knows each other, has a story to tell and everyone takes the time to catch up.

Fast: Parking tickets downtown, boy are they speedy. there's a nice guy in shorts wandering around ticketing cars. it's free for the first 90 minutes, but it seems like at exactly 91 minutes he appears, like a nymph and there it is, another ticket.

In terms of Internet, not being "always on" is actually a great thing for me. It's making me be more intentional, more deliberate with me online time. I'm trying to find that balance between having my face stuck in a computer and the new possibilities of my neighborhood to explore.

Wireless in Olympia

Now, this would have been helpful this week Wireless in Olympia- a list of free wifi in Olympia.

The things you miss the most

Over the past couple of weeks, I spent quite a bit of time considering what I would miss the most about Seattle. You see, not so long ago J and I decided that Olympia would be our next home. So we spent lots of months researching neighborhoods and sniffing houses. Sniffing because we were looking at older homes downtown and Oly being the soggy town it is and Jeremy's allergies being what they are, we were sniffing for mold. And boy did we find it. So after casting our net further afield we found an amazing little house, nestled the woods, on a street by the sound.

So, the last two weeks were sort of the internal monologue of what will I miss about Seattle. Of all the things I listed, my dear friends, the hustle of the town, favorite restaurants, coffee shops, bars, etc. I had no idea I'd miss the Internet.

Our new house is in some sort of broadband dead zone. All the big companies claim that they don't provide service way out there on the bay, although our new neighbors claim this is a lie. But until we get to the bottom of this, or pay for the infrastructure ourselves, we are living like its the late 90s, that's right a modem! How old school.