T Stands for Friends and Wineries

   Happy T for Tuesday, 

       We gather with friends over at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's and share a drink  related photo in our blog post. You are most welcome to link up-find link in my sidebar.

    The sewer project here is still craziness, including a major project for us getting the basement bathroom totally changed so it can get hooked in to the sewer system. We knew when we purchased this home that the previous owners did so many things incorrectly that would have to be redone-electric is still a biggie, and the bathroom in the basement as well. That project continues today.

  On the fun side our very dear and long time friends that live in Wisconsin drove down for a long weekend. They are semi retired now and working towards full retirement but they are now able to work part time-working Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday to give them long weekends. So for me especially this was super fun to have them visit. They come every year but do to covid it's been two years now since we have seen them.

  Marie loves to visit small business wineries all over the country. She has a circle of girl friends that will take off for a few days visiting wineries and doing girl stuff-shopping and dining haha. Her husband Rob enjoys it as well. So she came with a list of wineries to visit in a nearby town Stover, Missouri. I have driven through Stover, but never stopped there. It is a very old town surrounded with farms and I had no idea they had wineries. 

   We visited three-my favorite was the first stop Timber Ridge Winery. After the few people that were there left we had the tasting area all to ourselves. Learned allot about the couple, took me down memory lane of places I visited in Wisconsin as a kid. I tasted a few and bought one bottle- their dry elderberry wine. If you are on Facebook they have a better presence there where I found this photo. They cleared the land where this building sits and built the rustic barn. This was a hobby and once retired decided to go into the business they have just recently opened

and this is the only photo I remembered to take-you can see the wine glasses Marie collects.

The next stop Dale Hollow Winery was packed with people as they had live entertainment outdoors, and one could go into their shop to taste the wine and purchase to drink at the event or take home. I thought they were smart as they had allot of bottles chilled. We have been in the 90's f all weekend with high humidity.

    My friends bought a few bottles here and I bought one bottle that was a really different dry white wine.  I tried their lake house white wine and did not like it at all so then tried their Haw Creek dry white because it was so different.  We only stayed long enough to taste and buy wines and her collector wine glass since they were packed with people.

  from their site

  The third winery was Wildlife Ridge Winery  By this time especially since we had only eaten a very small breakfast-cheesecake-haha  I only tasted one wine, I didn't really care for it and I also was not wanting to purchase any more wine than the two I had.  My friends picked up a couple wines here and one of the etched wine glasses. She has one from all of her winery visits.

  I can see why wineries can be an adventure, especially small family run wineries. You are supporting small business's and a fun day out.

  My husband is not up to this sort of thing plus he wanted to work on the sewer project in the basement so he would be further along when our help came back on Monday 

  Of course by this time we needed food.  I had set up food for Larry in the fridge for his lunch and we also brought back food.  

We stopped in Versailles, Mo at Bee's Knees Brewery   My friends ordered a hand tossed, wood fired pizza, and I ordered their Greek Gyro salad-which was huge.

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We also each bought one of these glasses. Rob had their stout beer which he said Larry would have loved. They bought a glass for a friend of theirs that collects beer glasses, and I fell in love with it as the Bees reminded me of Outlander and it was a heavy glass.

   When the owner is there he will give tours but we didn't get to do that this time. Here is a link to their menu

   

  So that was a very busy Saturday for me.  Sunday I helped Larry with the sewer job for a bit in the early morning, and then Marie and I made up a big breakfast-hash browns, eggs, thick bacon, coffee-cheesecake-of course haha.   Sunday some fished off the dock, as the lake was still very busy. Marie and I cooked up a nice dinner, and I also made us fresh mango margaritas-so delicious!! Afterwards, Marie and I chatted for hours and drank wine-a good catch up. a perfect weekend!!

This past week we did spot the eagle visiting.

and wild clouds that looked like a dog sitting

and Larry spotted a rainbow but when I was deleting photos I deleted that one by mistake.

and to close with one more drink-I got this recipe in my inbox from my favorite online spice shop The Spice House-- Cardamon Plum Iced Tea

   Happy new week everyone and Happy T wishes