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RE: The Old Fashioned

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In Reply to: RE: The Old Fashioned posted by dean_martin on March 02, 2025 at 13:40:58

I'm a neat whisky drinker, note the spelling, not whiskey. But I love whiskey cocktails by far my favorite of any sort. Especially rye, which when I started you couldn't find hardly anything other than Wild Turkey, now zoom, it's taken off. Gin and tonic's during the summer months, but I can't drink the real tonics (0 sugar for me) and the sugar free ones don't taste the same. Oh, I'll drink them, just not as satisfying. I used to mix up a Bijou (Chartreuse, gin and vermouth) every once in awhile for my wife, the lightweight, and they were good, but Chartreuse is impossible to find anymore, monks decided on getting back to their "higher calling" phhhtt!

Sounds like a wonderful life at your house. I'm hoping for a return to that post surgeries. Wonder if my tastes will change. Nah, too embedded in the Islay life.

Another interesting autocorrect, Islay AC'd to Islam...I don't think those two are at all compatible!

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RE: The Old Fashioned - dean_martin 14:27:46 03/02/25 (3)
Dude, I like a good Islay on a fall/winter night. Smoke and peat can't be beat! I was surprised the wife likes Ardbeg 10.

Oh, I had to switch to tea after surgery. I was a big coffee guy but now I can't finish a cup. Don't know why. Anyhow, I switched to an Irish breakfast tea for mornings and enjoy a Vietnamese Red tea and a Japanese smoked tea in the afternoon/evening.

And, yeah, it's nice at home on the weekends cuz the work week is sink or swim.
- RE: The Old Fashioned - Sibelius 21:37:09 03/02/25 (2)
  My wife is the tea drinker. We have a dozen or more loose leaf black teas on the counter at any one time. Coffee for me, but less and less all the time. There was a time if I didn't have my two cuppa's id be bonkers, now it's meh, take it or leave it. Of course, now that my figure skating daughter drives herself to the rink at 5:00 a.m. (after ten years of my chauffeuring) it's less urgent. So, a cup a day or less is ok by me.
  
  Meantime, while waiting for those old fashioned's and puff pastries and ham, a handful of Dot's will do nicely. Slainte!
  - Figure skating where? - Luminator 22:31:49 03/02/25 (1)
    Where does you daughter practice? Initially, my kids learned to skate at Fremont Ice.
    
    But then, in early 2015, my daughter (#18, in yellow) switched to Oakland Ice, because the hockey lessons were at a better time.
    
    When the pucks are put away, they can work on skating and defense. Above, the coach was instructing them to make themselves bigger, by sweeping the stick (while not committing a tripping penalty).
    
    And on this afternoon, my daughter got out of the hockey gear (well, most of it), and donned the figure skates.
    - RE: Figure skating where? - Sibelius 23:22:10 03/02/25 (0)
      Shark's Ice, San Jose. 6 days a week. Well, until she was injured. Currently sidelined with severe torn ankle ligaments. Driving us all up the wall.
      
      Oakland could be such a wonderful facility, except for "the elements". Absolutely world class coaches there who can't get to SJ enough.

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