Thru the Veil of "Two Buck Chuck"
At pleasant Tuesday afternoon at my friend Judi's back yard patio, we sat enjoying a beautiful Sierra mountain afternoon. The sun was shining, the breeze was lovely and cooling and the wine was delightful. The conversation was effervescent and the day was a delight.
We had started the day off with a great breakfast of bacon, eggs, fruit and orange juice on the deck and quickly decided that this was going to be a day of "relaxing and enjoying the great outdoors." After breakfast, that turned into a morning of short naps.
I took the first turn of laying on the floor with a pillow on going off for about 30 minutes of "power napping" and then getting on with some person business on the Internet.
Judi decided to get some things done around the
house and just "play it cool and take it easy" for once in her very busy schedule. Since she rarely has a whole day off, this was a unique opportunity for her to take a "short snooze". So while she snoozed on the couch with Grey Eagle (20-year old cat) resting on her chest and Foxy (2-year old dog) laying at her feet, I moved out to the deck to read and enjoy the beautiful Sierra weather.
By 2:30 / 3:00 PM everyone had snoozed and Judi and I sat on the deck chatting. We decided that it was at least 5:00 PM in Arkansas where I am currently living, so it was a perfect time to open a bottle of wine with the cheese and crackers we were munching on.
A bit of history on the wine... "two buck chuck" is in reality Charles Shaw wine which can be purchased at Trader's Joe for $2 per bottle. We prefer the Merlot which makes for a great sipping wine or wine with dinner. Surprisingly it has a great taste and is frequently used in mine and Judi's households and our family's households.
Be that as it may, we were managing to polish off a bottle an half, when I decide I had to go inside to go to the bathroom. As I entered the living room, I looked on the floor and said, "Is that a snake on the carpet." Now that was a perfectly normal question to ask of this thing that was laying on the carpet just inside the patio door beside Foxy who was just looking at the thing. Grey Eagle had already walked around it and just moved to the other side of the room.
Once Judi looked into the room, the world went ballistic!!!! "What is that doing in my house. I never leave doors open so that something like that can get in. What are we going to do about it." Now you have to realize that we are both a few sheets to the wind and have been giggling and reminiscing about things from our younger days and from the days of our kids being kids. I'm standing on the deck, bare-footed, giggling and asking Judi if she has a blanket or something that we can put over this thing. Being the city girl that I am I can't tell what kind of a snake it is, but at least I know it's a snake.
Judi runs in one door while yelling "what are we going to do about this." While I'm standing there giggling and asking her how we are going to get it out of the house, Judi finds the rake and starts to push the snake out on the deck so we can get it in the back yard. I'm yelling at Judi to give me my camera so we can take a picture of the snake in the house, while she is going crazy trying to get it out on the deck to get it in the yard. All the while we are both laughing and saying we need to get rid of the snake.
Slowly but surely Judi rakes the snake from the living room carpet on to the deck and then on to the back yard where the snake slithers under the deck where it probably originally came from... who knows.
Anyhow, we get settled down and continue with our glasses of wine and how great we were about getting the snake out of the house. Judi is proud that she identified the snake as non-poisonous and I'm just happy that the damn thing is out of sight and I can get back to enjoying the wine and the afternoon.
Of course we have to call some one to let them about the treacherous adventure we have just endured. So Judi calls daughter, Farida, but she's not home. So Judi leaves a message, "You have to call me back right cause we've just had a snake, at least 10 feet long, in the living room." Sure enough, Farida calls back within 20 minutes and asks what's going on. As Judi tells her the story, the snake is now "at least 20 feet long." Farida is kind of laughing and I'm shouting into the phone that is was really something to see your mother get the snake out of the house. Farida decides that it's not a good idea for us to drive the 20 minutes up the mountain to show her the pictures and we giggle that we have to finish the bottle of wine and will show her the pictures tomorrow.
As we get back to finishing off the rest of the bottle of wine, we talk about how horrible it was with this now, "at least 50 foot long" snake being in the living room and how we managed to get it out of the house and on to the deck so we could push it on to the yard.
It's now getting toward sun down and time to get some of the scrumptious smelling spaghetti sauce that has been cooking all day in the crock pot onto a plate to feed our faces.
We finally finish off the last of the second bottle of Two Buck Chuck and get the dinner dishes into the dishwasher. We are now ready to sit and enjoy the cool comfort of a Sierra early evening and relive the trails of the day when we were able to get a snake, at least 75 feet long, out of the living room, onto the deck and on to the back yard where it will live it's life, hopefully, without ever coming back into the house.
If you are interested in Judi's version of this day, check her blog at www.beautybreadsierra.com
We had started the day off with a great breakfast of bacon, eggs, fruit and orange juice on the deck and quickly decided that this was going to be a day of "relaxing and enjoying the great outdoors." After breakfast, that turned into a morning of short naps.
I took the first turn of laying on the floor with a pillow on going off for about 30 minutes of "power napping" and then getting on with some person business on the Internet. Judi decided to get some things done around the
house and just "play it cool and take it easy" for once in her very busy schedule. Since she rarely has a whole day off, this was a unique opportunity for her to take a "short snooze". So while she snoozed on the couch with Grey Eagle (20-year old cat) resting on her chest and Foxy (2-year old dog) laying at her feet, I moved out to the deck to read and enjoy the beautiful Sierra weather.
By 2:30 / 3:00 PM everyone had snoozed and Judi and I sat on the deck chatting. We decided that it was at least 5:00 PM in Arkansas where I am currently living, so it was a perfect time to open a bottle of wine with the cheese and crackers we were munching on.
A bit of history on the wine... "two buck chuck" is in reality Charles Shaw wine which can be purchased at Trader's Joe for $2 per bottle. We prefer the Merlot which makes for a great sipping wine or wine with dinner. Surprisingly it has a great taste and is frequently used in mine and Judi's households and our family's households.
Be that as it may, we were managing to polish off a bottle an half, when I decide I had to go inside to go to the bathroom. As I entered the living room, I looked on the floor and said, "Is that a snake on the carpet." Now that was a perfectly normal question to ask of this thing that was laying on the carpet just inside the patio door beside Foxy who was just looking at the thing. Grey Eagle had already walked around it and just moved to the other side of the room.
Once Judi looked into the room, the world went ballistic!!!! "What is that doing in my house. I never leave doors open so that something like that can get in. What are we going to do about it." Now you have to realize that we are both a few sheets to the wind and have been giggling and reminiscing about things from our younger days and from the days of our kids being kids. I'm standing on the deck, bare-footed, giggling and asking Judi if she has a blanket or something that we can put over this thing. Being the city girl that I am I can't tell what kind of a snake it is, but at least I know it's a snake.Judi runs in one door while yelling "what are we going to do about this." While I'm standing there giggling and asking her how we are going to get it out of the house, Judi finds the rake and starts to push the snake out on the deck so we can get it in the back yard. I'm yelling at Judi to give me my camera so we can take a picture of the snake in the house, while she is going crazy trying to get it out on the deck to get it in the yard. All the while we are both laughing and saying we need to get rid of the snake.
Slowly but surely Judi rakes the snake from the living room carpet on to the deck and then on to the back yard where the snake slithers under the deck where it probably originally came from... who knows.
Anyhow, we get settled down and continue with our glasses of wine and how great we were about getting the snake out of the house. Judi is proud that she identified the snake as non-poisonous and I'm just happy that the damn thing is out of sight and I can get back to enjoying the wine and the afternoon.
Of course we have to call some one to let them about the treacherous adventure we have just endured. So Judi calls daughter, Farida, but she's not home. So Judi leaves a message, "You have to call me back right cause we've just had a snake, at least 10 feet long, in the living room." Sure enough, Farida calls back within 20 minutes and asks what's going on. As Judi tells her the story, the snake is now "at least 20 feet long." Farida is kind of laughing and I'm shouting into the phone that is was really something to see your mother get the snake out of the house. Farida decides that it's not a good idea for us to drive the 20 minutes up the mountain to show her the pictures and we giggle that we have to finish the bottle of wine and will show her the pictures tomorrow.
As we get back to finishing off the rest of the bottle of wine, we talk about how horrible it was with this now, "at least 50 foot long" snake being in the living room and how we managed to get it out of the house and on to the deck so we could push it on to the yard.It's now getting toward sun down and time to get some of the scrumptious smelling spaghetti sauce that has been cooking all day in the crock pot onto a plate to feed our faces.
We finally finish off the last of the second bottle of Two Buck Chuck and get the dinner dishes into the dishwasher. We are now ready to sit and enjoy the cool comfort of a Sierra early evening and relive the trails of the day when we were able to get a snake, at least 75 feet long, out of the living room, onto the deck and on to the back yard where it will live it's life, hopefully, without ever coming back into the house.
If you are interested in Judi's version of this day, check her blog at www.beautybreadsierra.com
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