It's colder than a witch's nipple out there.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:28 am

Damn is it cold!
Have uncorked the 2011 Jadot Clos des Ursules.
Now THIS is what I'm talking about as far as mouth-puckering unpleasantness!
Ironically, I consider this a good thing in this young Burg, it has some meat on it.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:31 am

Picked up some freshly baked whoopie pies today for my father.
Mmmmm, those of you who haven't booked your trip to DC '14, you don't know what you're missing....

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:32 am

I should have warned you, Jim. Once Ursules broke away from the pack Jadot vinted it for drinking later, I think. That was the right thing to do, IMO. Stick to the Coucherwhateveraroes in the near term.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:34 am

Mmmmmm can't wait to try it with a freshly baked whoopie pie....

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:37 am

Anyone who attends a BWE convention for the first time of course is subjected to the ancient secret BWE whoopie pie hazing ritual....

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:38 am

Here the temperatures will get into the mid 20s tonight, which is really low for this part of Texas. My concern is that I have 20 boxes from PC that should arrive tomorrow, but I fear that they are stuck overnight in even colder weather.

Tonight we drank a 2007 St. Innocent Winemaker's Cuvee Pinot Noir. This is the only high end PN Mark makes that is not single vineyard. The grapes come from Freedom Hill and Vitae Springs. This is probably the best '07 Oregon PN we have drunk. The nose is developed with flowers and briar and pepper, and the taste matches well, with the pepper lasting through the entire bottle. It is a solid 92 points on the Lucie/stefan scale.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:41 am

Mmmmm sounds like a Lucie kind of wine, I'll bet it would go well with a whoopie pie.

When you are benevolent dictator of BWE, you get holiday cards from Alfred and Melanie Tesseron....

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:55 am

Boy what a difference between the Ursules and those two other wines Stefan.
I liked the other two wines in the short-term (<15 years) for their "pleasantness."
I like this wine in the long-term (>15 years) for its "unpleasantness."

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:20 pm

I can't believe how cold it is!
Another week of sub zero temperatures ahead.
No mas. No mas.

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:18 pm

…in a brass bra.

Which circle of Dante's Inferno have we descended to here?

Continuing with the cold-as-hell metaphors, does anyone know (without Googling) the origin of the phrase "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey?"

RDD · Post by **RDD** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 12:19 am

I was planning to bring 1990 Ursules for Friday night.
Hopefully it'll be good.
Maybe some Clos St Jacques in name of a good friend.

hm$ · Post by **hm$** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 3:42 am

Need 1 extra whoopee pie to bring back for the kid Jim.....and three extra for me.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:51 am

I'll bring plenty Howard.

Rudi Finkler · Post by **Rudi Finkler** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:37 pm

You have my sympathy, guys! We have +12 degrees Celsius this afternoon, pretty spring-like in Saarland…
As a consolation, especially for fans of Baroque music among you:
Klaus Nomi - The Cold Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7WehY5vTl4

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 5:49 pm

It's supposed to be 40F this weekend, it's going to feellike bathing suit weather.

Nicklasss · Post by **Nicklasss** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 12:49 am

Very cold here too. It as been a nice winter to me: cold, good amount of snow, but also very sunny.

Drinking lot of tea...

Nic

AlohaArtakaHoundsong · Wed Mar 05, 2014 12:53 am

The days have been warm and I've been surfing quite a bit lately but it did get down to 61 degrees last night. It would be nice to have a fireplace on cold nights like that.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:12 am

I hate you, Hound. I hate you.

Jay Winton · Post by **Jay Winton** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:12 am

hard to leave Curacao-85 and sunny every day. Our second visit and I think we will return. We did miss a big storm in DC so timing was good.

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:49 am

We were scheduled to go to Hawaii in January but got cancelled due to the first polar vortex. I am soooo sick of this winter.

dstgolf · Post by **dstgolf** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:56 pm

OK Jim,Don't like lawyer/politician jokes. How about blonde jokes and the weather everyone is so pissed at.

Winter Blonde
As a trucker stops for a red light, a blonde catches up. She jumps out of her car runs up to his truck and knocks on the door. The trucker lowers the window and she says, “Hi, my name is Heather and you are losing some of your load.”
The trucker ignores her and proceeds down the street. When the trucker stops for another red light, the girl catches up again. She jumps out of her car runs up to his truck and knocks on the door. Again, the trucker lowers the window. As if they’ve never spoken, the blonde says brightly, “Hi, my name is Heather and you are losing some of your load!”
Shaking his head, the trucker ignores her again and continues down the street. At the third red light, the same thing happens again. All out of breath, the blonde gets out of her car, runs up knocks on the truck door. The trucker rolls down the window. Again she says “Hi, my name is Heather and you are losing some of your load!”
When the light turns green the trucker revs up and races to the next light. When he stops this time, he hurriedly gets out of the truck and runs back to the blonde. He knocks on her window and after she lowers it, he says….. “ Hi, my name is Mark, it’s winter in Kansas and I’m driving the SALT TRUCK!”

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:11 am

Hmm I'm not immediately getting it....

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:04 pm

Son of a bitch is it cold out there.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:25 pm

14 more inches coming tomorrow.

Aaaaaarrrrggghhhhhhhh!!!!!
I'm going craaaazzzzy!!!!

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 12:16 am

I think we're going to get rain with this one tomorrow, with temps in the low 70s… at last! Thursday will be cold again but not Maine cold, "only" down to 20.

Tom In DC · Post by **Tom In DC** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:20 am

Bring your foul weather gear to the convention, everyone - I don't think this is going to be a "let's take a walk around the tidal basin to see the cherry blossoms" kind of year.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 11:29 pm

I think you're right Tom.
Rain, cold, sleet, Snow, ice up here, we are expecting 12 inches of snow.. But not just snow, it's gonna be a sheet if ice as well. Had the furnace guy over this morning.
It's a nor'easter. In mid march.

stefan · Post by **stefan** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 12:16 am

Here in Vegas it is a very pleasant 66F. We have a beautiful view from our 22nd floor room of the old airport and the mountains.

Corkage is not a problem here. Last night at Aquanox it was $35 and it is the same tonight at the Mesa Grill. Emboldened by the success with a ''99 1er Cru Burgundy a week ago, we drank a '99 Gambal Clos Vougeot. That was a mistake as it is still closed up. The structure is great, though, and such be excellent when we revisit it in five years. Tonight we'll drink one of the Bordeaux we brought and take the Restaurant Week menu.

There is a wonderful exhibition of mostly Bostonian women painters at the museum at the Bellagio. There is also a nice gallery of Richard MacDonald sculptures, ranging in price from under $4000 to around $182,000. We looked but did not buy. The Bellagio also has an entire room dedicated to real poker, so I know where to go if I need some easy money.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:23 pm

It is 12 degrees out there and VERY windy. It feels like zero.
It is not even the foot of snow that is bothering me, it is this damned cold.
They are calling for single digits through next Wednesday, when another snow storm is predicted.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:30 pm

Been sub zero temps up here all week at night.
That's bad enough, but the worse news is that they are calling for freezing temps into next week.
Now they're saying it's going to be a record cold March.
Geez.

dstgolf · Post by **dstgolf** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 1:04 am

Hey Jim. Heard Al Gore was coming up to Maine to talk global warming!!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 1:19 am

Part of Al's theory Danny is that there will be weather extremes, hot and cold, wet and dry, etc.
We'll be Mars in no time.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 12:06 pm

Temps in the balmy upper teens here in Maine today.
Ten day forecast for DC calls for temps in 50s next Thursday/Friday.

dstgolf · Post by **dstgolf** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 1:06 pm

Thank God I'll be in Florida getting educated,enjoying a little golf as well as having our own special BWE offline Friday March 28th with Stuart and Kathy in Delray Beach. Should be fun and a little warmer.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 1:10 pm

Nice. I need to get down to Miami.

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 5:20 pm

DC is schedule for cold and snow on Tuesday, but warming by the weekend. Looks like 40s and possibly rainy.

Jim, your miserable weather is making me feel a little bit better than our miserable weather.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Wed Mar 19, 2014 8:38 pm

That I can't see my driveway from my house because of the snowbanks as we approach the end of March is sick. They are calling for 3 more inches tonight, more snow on Saturday, and more snow on Tuesday.

But you know, it's not even the snow that is killing me, it is this damned relentless cold!

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:38 pm

Driving to court in the foothills of Oxford County , Maine, we had a foot of snow last night now turning to freezing rain. Happy first day of spring!

DavidG · Post by **DavidG** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:50 am

I'm in San Francisco this weekend, and boy is it nice here. Nah, nah, nah nah nah.

Supposed to get more lows in the 20s and snow next week in Maryland. I might not go back.

JimHow · Post by **JimHow** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:54 am

Yeah big storm coming on the east coast on Wednesday.
Hopefully it doesn't affect Thursday travel.
Then again, the way things are going, I think we can count on it.