Speak Your Piece
Plus Harriet the Pig, a bit of bourbon, and German.
^ Flowers on the kitchen island Friday.
^ Delicious dinner at Tara’s, as always.
^ one of two of the Germans.
^ a lemon Tunisian orange cake for dessert I took to dinner and a very good bottle of Pinot Noir. ❤️
Recipe here:
^ lots of lilies blooming in the garden.
^ I won at least one game of bowling. 💁♀️
I figured I might as well upload another rendition of Speak Your Piece. I've been kind of a little shit for a week as my friend Tara had out of town guests in from Germany, and I felt a need to participate in the tourism efforts. The language difference is kind of fascinating. Both are back safely in Dortmund - oer- erkenschwick after what sounds like quite a hellacious flight situation with cancelled flights and thunderstorms at the Atlanta airport. Ending in a direct flight to Istanbul then home. My advice, as always is to go to One Flew South. My favorite.
Detailed here:
Always sit at the bar.
When I went to Italy for a friend's wedding last year, I had a friend that told me to go to One Flew South in the Atlanta airport. It's a restaurant that's both delicious and unexpected. He said go and sit at the bar. There will always be someone there to strike up a conversation with and the bartenders are many of the same from years past. When I got t…
I learned a lot actually. I have been in Lexington for seven years and have never been on a bourbon tour in my entire life, which I know is shameful. I found myself fascinated by, of all things on the Jim Beam bourbon tour, where Jim Beam found the yeast strain that he used for his bourbon. They said he collected it in the backyard and my question very obnoxiously (most likely) to the tour guide was, "And where in the back yard did he find it?" They don't know or they won't tell. This was only made more fascinating by a dinner I went to at my friend Patrick's two days ago, where a friend of his from Spain who works at the University of Kentucky said that there was a different bourbon distillery that was thinking about getting UK to provide a very special yeast strain. I thought, "This is the place where I can get my answer." So I asked him, “Where could the yeast have come from?” He said the yeast comes from the air and flowers that are highly pollen rich provide sugar and will feed the yeast from the air on the flower. So there you go, but it could come from absolutely anywhere, but I found it all very interesting from the nerd point of my personality. 🤓.
^ the farm in Georgetown, Kentucky
^ more from Harriet.
^ storms on the farm.
^ Ona.
^ French 75’s at some point with the girlfriends on the in between. Recipe here.
Dinner with Patrick and Katelynn and friends.
Otherwise, there was a photoshoot at the house for a local clothes boutique downtown and their new clothes’ images.
^ Attic.
And I've been working on the dreaded attic project. The uneven wall texture being plaster on some of these walls is very difficult to get with a roller and height of the walls for a 5'3 person. It's a little more daunting than usual. I've definitely painted walls that have 10 foot ceilings before, but the angled nature of the attic is a different beast. But that being said, the color is looking really pretty and for that I am grateful. It's a beautiful blush, peach, sort of mixture and the warmth that it provides in contrast to the gray that was previously there is nice and cozy. I will get along with the point of the day, which is to share a little bit from Speak Your Piece, which is a column in the newspaper from my hometown in Whitesburg, Kentucky (if you don't already know.) So, let's get started. I love a bit of trash gossip and airing of grievances in my life, and I know that you do too.
I hope your week is off to a great start ❤️
Alex