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~ Gary’s Birthday Recap

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IMG00079Gary’s Birthday celebrating began last saturday at Ted’s Montana grill.  I wasn’t able to make the dinner, but I was able to make it to dessert at twisted fork!

About half of us then went to sammy’s, and then later to pr’s where we stayed out til 2am, and then went home and crashed, since I had been up since 3:45am and on the road.

Sunday, we celebrated with my parents, with a carvel cake with my mom’s drawing of fudgie the whale since a fudgie the whale cake is too big for 4.

Monday, we went to a mexican place for dinner and then to pick up Gary’s surprise birthday present!  Ask Gary the next time you see him if you want to know what it is . . . he should have it with him 😉

Tonight, we just got in from celebrating with Gary’s parents with a yummy snickers bar cake 😀

~ Charley’s Aunt

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Gary was in California all last week seeing 4 different baseball games in 3 stadiums and returned sunday evening.  His mom and I had dinner at Panera Bread on Saturday and then went to see Theatre In The Park‘s Charley’s Aunt.  A funny play and a great cast which made for a fun evening.  Gary gets back in from Atlanta today . . . we woke up at 4:30am on Monday to get him to his destination for his trip, but he was able to see a make-up game that night, and had a successful meeting today.  I can’t wait for him to get in this evening . . . and that should be the end of the travelling for him for a bit 🙂

~ Duplin Winery

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duplinwineryYesterday, Gary and I went to the Duplin Winery in Rose Hill NC, about an hour and a half drive from Raleigh.  It was a very interesting tour of the winery, about an hour or two and we learned alot about their wine making process.

warehouse < here is what their crates of wine look like at the warehouse

skinsthis is one of the stages of getting the skins, seeds, debris, etc off the grapes . . .

vats

< there were several rooms full of these vats, for fermenting the wine at regulated temperatures depending on the type of wine

labeling

< this is where they blow CO2 in the bottles to remove any oxygen before filling them bottling2

here is where the bottles get labels on the front and back of the bottles . . .

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~ Anniversary Celebrating in Wilmington

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June 3rd was our 3rd wedding anniversary, but it fell on a wednesday this year.  So we did a day trip to Wilmington NC instead.  Gary’s parents took us to dinner on the 3rd, we had dinner at my parents house another night.

We had lunch at the Oceanic.  Their seafood gumbo was delicious.  Saw the Battleship North Carolina which took about 2/3 hours, then went downtown for a bit of shopping and walking around, and then had dinner at Elija’s on the cape fear river.  The weather was great, and it was a really fun day trip.

~ Gary’s New Mower

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toro mowerYesterday, Gary and I picked up his new lawn mower from Home Depot.  They were out of stock of this years ‘personal pace’ mower so we upgraded to the one that has an electric key start feature as well as all of the other features we/he wanted and was this years model.

It is now sitting in our living room (temporarily) while the battery charges.

And no, it will not be living in our living room, or ever see our living room again after its first use 😛

If you’d like to read up on the specs and all you can on the Toro website here or the Home Depot website here

~ Milk Tea or Coffee?

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Just in case you wondered what I do during the week, sometimes I take pictures of random things I see -haha
This was either in my milk tea or my coffee, I don’t remember 😛

bubbles

bubbles, bubbles,bubbles!     my bubbles