Goose Ridge Winery. Honestly their flight of reds all tasted the same to me. They had some interesting ciders though. I then used one of my favorite quotes that always falls flat. "I'll take a glass of your cheapest red, because I cannot tell the difference." Whatever. I crack me up.
Same here. Friends are members at the Clif Family winery in Napa and they let us use their free tasting and it starting getting awkward after every tasting the sommelier would ask how it was and we'd reply "it's good" because it just tasted like good red wine to me
Got seriously fucked up from that storm that came through Houston last week. A flying tree punched a hole in my roof that almost came through the sheet rock on the ceiling. Still have no power. It was like 92 degrees today. I wasn’t home but my wife was and said the wind sounded like a freight train. She said she thought she was going to die. Another tree in my front yard snapped in half like a toothpick. I’m lucky it somehow landed in between mine and the neighbor’s house and only dented my gutters. I’ve never seen such sudden, unexpected destruction like this. A million people lost power. We are down to 300,000 now. They call this storm a “derecho” because the straight line winds hit 110-120 mph. https://imgur.com/a/jT83reu Those are some of the pics.
There were also tornados in the area but it’s hard to say how close they got to us. edit: thanks for all the kind wishes everyone
Accents are kind of funny. Do you have one? Mine is pretty hidden except for odd words here or there, but when I go into "being extra nice/professional" or "slightly anxious host of visitors in my home" mode it all comes back out hard. Luckily everyone out here thinks it is so charming and cute, and I get a lot of compliments on it. I even had a woman tell me she was jealous of my accent! Knock me over with a feather.
Sort of. A combination of South Shore and whatever brand of guido-English they speak in Rhode Island.
People elsewhere in the country can tell I'm "from the East Coast", but they almost never pinpoint the region. I think that has more to do with my surly disposition than my accent though.
Your daughter getting hit on in a bar in the future: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/0ad9a570-955d-4639-833d-727b678bee87
My wife is half British and has this broken accent where she speaks with a western accent but over-pronounces words the way British people do. So when she talks sounds like somebody trying to teach a class how to speak English. Everyone has an accent once they aren’t home. My daughter didn’t realize this until we we stopped in Georgia to eat last month and the waitress thought we sounded “fascinating”.
My FIL was born in England, no sign of an accent, when he did drink(luckily it has been a while since he has) his english accent would come out.
My FIL was born in Italy and came here when he was 15 or 16. No accent on him either. All of his siblings have it, though.
I don't think of my wife and I as having accents, but when we were in London people were openly laughing when we walked around. Apparently the "Texas accent" is quite easy to spot. It was extremely common for people to ask us about Texas, as a way of introducing themselves.
Ha. was supposed to have a bbq tonight. Fuck me. It’s all blowing NE right through us, complete with thunder and lightning.