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Continue reading →: Willamette Day 2
Welcome back to Willamette, dammit (a little reinforcement of a previously introduced idea – I read somewhere it helps people remember things). When we last left off, Mrs. Chump and I had just returned to our hotel in Willamette, The Dundee Hotel. I’m not going to spend a lot of…
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Continue reading →: It’s Willamette, dammit
“While we are out do you want to . . . . “. Mrs. Chump loves to spring that question on me whenever we are out running errands because she absolutely knows, “No, I do not want to.”. Well, very seldomly at least. If you tell me that we need…
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Continue reading →: Photos
As I continue to advance to higher and higher “experience levels” in this game called life, I am sometimes reminded of past adventures that I had almost completely forgotten about. Some random visual, phrase or even aroma will bring up a distant memory that, until that moment, I had completely…
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Continue reading →: Dare to be Different (Stupid)
At some point in 1983, a young Don Conners walked confidently into a record store and bought his first 45 single. What rock and roll classic or 80’s one-hit-wonder did young Don buy you ask? Bruce? MJ? Rush? Nope – amateurs, all of them! Instead our hero young Don bought…
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Continue reading →: Get-Away Day
Home is where the heart is. That is what “they” say. And for the most part, “they” are right. But it is also where daily monotony sometimes comes to visit from time to time. We all have those times when we get into a bit of a routine rut –…
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Continue reading →: Back to School!
When I first started getting more interested in wine, one of the most frustrating things for me was going into a restaurant and looking at the wine list and, outside of the most famous grapes/regions, not knowing what any of the wines were. To be honest, it was both intimidating…
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Continue reading →: Pre-Gaming the Storm
One of the things I like about living where we do is the multitude of wineries/vineyards within close proximity of us that make it easy to pop in for a tasting or a glass (or two). And while I don’t intend for this blog to be a review of every…
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Continue reading →: Tradition vs Variety
Early on in our dating, Mrs. Chump and I began going to a quaint New England church every Sunday. Afterwards, we would then go out for a bite to eat. And that’s where the “trouble” started. One of us, we will call him a “traditionalist”, was in favor of frequenting…
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