Running From Addiction

I had a great weekend.   I spent friday night at a friend’s birthday party (she turned 4).  It was awesome seeing everyone and playing with the kids.  After the party, I headed up to Corvallis.  I got in pretty late so my Saturday morning run was a bit detailed.  We headed up to the vineyard around 7am to get started on the bottling.  By about noon I was starving and a bit buzzed from the wine QC process.  After an awesome lunch of home-made spaghetti and bread, my head felt much better and we headed back to work.   I’m not much of a drinker so I opted out of the QC process for the second half of the day.  In the end we bottled about 62 cases of wine spanning about 11 varieties.  I had a great time.  It was really nice seeing everyone from the vineyard and it was really great working with my Dad.  I am going to make sure I  get back up there in a couple of weeks for the first harvest of the new vines.

I ended up leaving Saturday night so I could meet up with a friend Sunday.  My friend ended up ditching me so I spent the day with my Grandma.  I love visiting Grandma.  She doesn’t get online much but she is one of my biggest supporters and it was great seeing her.

I am doing pretty good with the “Eat Local Challenge“.  The vineyard in Corvallis is located on a farm and before I left, my little sister and I had the opportunity to visit the farm’s pear trees.  In the end, I wound up with a ridiculous box of fresh picked, organic, pears.  While I was at my Grandma’s, I picked up some locally grown veggies from the community garden and  about a half gallon of fresh blackberries from the vines behind her place.  I have been keeping a log of the local vs non-local items from each meal so I can source or replace some of the non local items with locally grown/made.  So far, eating local has been much healthier and much, much, cheaper (All of my local food so far has cost me about $4).  Now, if I can only find some local meat of some sort (I guess it’s time to go fishing).