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bluegargantua ([personal profile] bluegargantua) wrote2010-11-04 11:01 am

I got a package! Day 2

Hey,

I got a package from my mom with smaller packages inside here are the rules.

So it's day 2 and I open up the package and find:

The Item:


Mom's package -- Day 2


It's a bottle of Elderberry Juice from a local vineyard.

So I'll open today's envelope...

The Message:

"Taste and see that the Lord is GOOD!!"

Huh, I didn't realize the Lord was made of Elderberries.

But yeah, there's a winery in my hometown. It's a fairly recent business as small rural towns look for boutique products to draw in tourism/business. Apparently they've branched out into specialty berry juice as well. It's actually got a pretty nice selection of stuff (along with products from other Nebraska wineries).

The winery is called Cedar Hills because that's the local evergreen species -- cedar pines. Our pasture is fairly thick with them (my Dad always regrets not making me go out during the summer to thin them out when I was younger). Oh, and while it's a type of pine tree, it makes a pretty terrible Christmas tree as we all discovered to our chagrin one year. It seemed like a good idea at the time: free tree, right from our property, but the structure of the needles just aren't the same and it left a huge mess everywhere. So we went back to buying them from the dealer in town the next year.

Anyway, elderberry juice...along with a pamphlet showing how rich in anti-oxidants it is. That's Nebraska, always about 5 years behind in the latest health fads.

later
Tom

[identity profile] bonisagus.livejournal.com 2010-11-04 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!
drwex: (Python)

What i was going to say

[personal profile] drwex 2010-11-04 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
was that this means Mary was a hamster
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[personal profile] muffyjo 2010-11-04 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I understand that the Lords of the local Manors are good to their plebians and share their bounties freely. I'm sure that's what your mother meant.

I am absolutely enjoying this day-by-day present thing!

[identity profile] chienne-folle.livejournal.com 2010-11-04 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nebraska winery" sounds like it should be a contradiction in terms, but I guess not. :-)