27th September 2009

Today I met up with Angelia as she drove up to see me and we attended the "St. Joseph Grape Stomp" which is one of the many wineries here in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. I was glad to see her again and sad her leg still hurts her.

We had fun at the event, ate a fruit plate for lunch and I gave away all my wine sample tokens since I am pregnant (and I do not drink anyway), so I made 4 people happy with an unexpected present. There were many Bavarian styled dressed people there. A couple people I know from Canada are from Bavaria and I actually like their leather trousers they make and wear, but the ambience of people dressing up for this event was nice.

Picture Above: Angelia just after having enjoyed a glass of white wine and sharing a plate of fruit, cheese and baguette with me. I had water out of my glass!!
Picture Below: Me standing at the grape stomping vat at Saint Joseph's Winery. I wanted to go in, but it was by 'lottery' and there was a lot of yellow jackets, so I did not want to push my luck. I already had one on me and I am very sensitive to their stings. Dad would not let us kids stomp the grapes by our feet at our winery. Reason unknown other than we would have had to have done it in the plastic primary fermentors.

Picture Above: Angelia (left) and me (right).
Picture Below: Angelia with a white Riesling for her mom, in front of a row of Merlot on our way out of the TIGHT parking lot.

Then since the Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival was still going on, we moseyed on over to the fairgrounds since Angelia did not get to attend yesterday. Yesterday there was a madhouse there, it was like the county fair itself was happening. Our first stop was to go look at the rabbits and then to go see the main pavilion and center areas which B and me skipped seeing yesterday.

Picture Above: An Angora goat getting professionally sheared at OFFF for $6
Picture Below: Angelia with her newly acquired basket (and she bought some pretty coloured wool to play with too!)

All too quickly she had to head home to go feed her horses. Hopefully I will get to see her again soon. Angelia brought up her copy of FrontPage so I can once again start blogging normally! THANK YOU!!!