you break your racking cane on a sunday, and the "local" wineshop is a
one houre drive away

arrrg, someones gotta have a funnier one than that

(note: I was bored, did a search for humor here on winemaking, and
found none, are we really that serious?)

Tater wrote:
> you break your racking cane on a sunday, and the "local" wineshop is a
> one houre drive away
>
> arrrg, someones gotta have a funnier one than that
>
> (note: I was bored, did a search for humor here on winemaking, and
> found none, are we really that serious?)

I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, "Dude, you have to wait."

Tater wrote:
> you break your racking cane on a sunday, and the "local" wineshop is a
> one houre drive away
>
> arrrg, someones gotta have a funnier one than that
>
> (note: I was bored, did a search for humor here on winemaking, and
> found none, are we really that serious?)

when... your humor is fermented to dryness

Your neighbors leave their empty wine bottles on your doorstep ....

Tater wrote:
> you break your racking cane on a sunday, and the "local" wineshop is a
> one houre drive away
>
> arrrg, someones gotta have a funnier one than that
>
> (note: I was bored, did a search for humor here on winemaking, and
> found none, are we really that serious?)

You shower at the gym. Not because you worked out, but because all of
your bathtubs are full of fermenting carboys.

While eating grapes with friends, you're mentally calculating the Brix
level in your head.

you have your friends over to help harvest your
wine grapes and you weigh them before and after
the harvest to see how much they ate and reduced
your harvest weight.

You know you are a true winemaker when you tell your wife off for
using the bathtub - to wash, the sink to wash up, the scraper for
wallpaper, the guestroom for guests and for turning the light on in
the attic!!! And she wonders why you spend more time racking wine
than with her... Sheesh!!!

Ultimately you know you're a true winemaker when you make lots of wine
and try to find jokes about it because you've thought about it in
every other way.

....when *every* trip through the kitchen department of a store, SWMBO
asks: "do you need that for cooking, or for wine?"

....if you've ever left a farmer's market with a truckload of purchases
and none of it is for eating.

....if you've ever been to Home Depot in the trash can section for more
than 10 minutes and have flipped over every one to see if it's marked
"NSF" on the bottom.

....if you've lamented that nothing from The Pampered Chef is big
enough.

Trid
-I might think of more...fun thread

You sometimes forget your appointments and others birthday dates, but
never forget when the next racking is.

Every trip to the grocery store, you look for fruit that is on sale for
possible use.

You are glad when one of your kids move out - so you can store more
cases in their closets.

Panic is when you realize you are days away from bottling and somehow
all your corks have already been used (I just bought 200 not too long
ago...you ponder)



....

DAve

Ryan Case wrote:
> Tater wrote:
>> you break your racking cane on a sunday, and the "local" wineshop is a
>> one houre drive away
>>
>> arrrg, someones gotta have a funnier one than that
>>
>> (note: I was bored, did a search for humor here on winemaking, and
>> found none, are we really that serious?)
>
> You shower at the gym. Not because you worked out, but because all of
> your bathtubs are full of fermenting carboys.

On 11/30/2007 4:03 PM, Dave Allison wrote:
>
> Every trip to the grocery store, you look for fruit that is on sale for
> possible use.

My spouse shudders when we're at the grocery store and I tell her that a
particular fruit is "priced for mead making!" :-D


Cheers,
Ken