2022 Life Logs, Day 342: Holiday Luncheon and Holiday Wine Tasting
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2022
Weather: Partly Sunny but Cold: High 44, Low 35 degrees F
Location: At Home in the Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Today was a golf club and yacht club kind of day. It began with the Newcomers Holiday Luncheon at the Pocasset Golf Club. I had never been there and found it to be nice enough, but not my favorite venue for the Newcomers Holiday Luncheon. The food and companionship was good, however, so I shouldn’t complain. I sat beside the friend who actually got me to join Newcomers in 2017. Friends had tried, but I kept saying I didn’t join clubs. Then I met Lynda at the gym. I was interested in buying a bicycle. In our conversations, I found that she led a biking club. I wanted to join that, but then found out it was a Newcomers biking club. I finally gave in and joined Newcomers and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. If social connections, companionship, and keeping active are important to the aging population, Newcomers offers all of that and more. A brand new Newcomer was sitting beside Lynda. She is a young, still working for Novartis in Boston. She keeps a small condo there but wanted a house with a yard where she can pursue her interest in gardening. She chose Falmouth for that.
I came home after the luncheon, played with Shadow, and then headed back out for an evening of wine tasting at the Green Pond Yacht Club with my wine group.
We did a blind tasting using Tasting Wine for Dummies as a guide.
It was great fun, but it required hard work–not just deciding which wine you liked best. You had to try and identify the specific type of grape and the country of origin. Most of us at least knew if the wine was red or white!!!
Following the wine tasting with delicious appetizers, we had a wine Yankee Swap. A wine cooler disguised as a woman’s bright red faux leather purse was the hit of the evening. I am not a wine lover, but I love my wine group. Drinking wine once a month is worth it just to be with that crazy, fun-loving group.
When I got home, I looked up to be greeted by the Cold Moon. It was full yesterday, but mostly hidden. Tonight, it was beautiful.
