Old Brain Syndrome

I know you’ve all been waiting patiently for my next literary gem. Well, sorry to disappoint you, but this isn’t it. Besides a very busy summer schedule, Red Hat Picnic, Dinner for 137 at the Church to celebrate our Patron, Saint Dominic, a Rock Cat baseball game outing, work on a 57^th Class Reunion party, and a bunch of other projects, my brain has taken a little vacation.

That now vacant growth on top of my neck has not given me much to work with. Every time I think it’s time to bore you people with a new blog entry I end up sitting in front of the screen with fingers that are unable to move poised over the keyboard. I guess the fancy explanation is writer’s block. I can’t even use that excuse, since I certainly don’t consider myself a writer. Let’s just call it for lack of anything better “Old Brain Syndrome”. May just as well since they now have a syndrome for anything that ails us. I cannot believe that I have survived for so many years because I hear about a new disease every time I turn on the TV. I firmly believe that the drug companies develop a drug and then create a disease for it. With all the things we can now die from how the hell do we survive? And if we do decide to take their advice and actually take the pill they’re touting, can you believe the side effects……..scares the shit out of me, rather have the disease.

Just to let you know, the golf game continues to maintain a high degree of mediocrity with only rare moments of athletic brilliance. I’m thinking that with many people now living to be 100 there is an outside chance I’ll be able to shoot my age, although with increasing aches and pains, that might be a real long shot.

We’ve started our annual Connecticut Wine Tour. You will recall that the state wineries have a passport program where you get it stamped at each winery you visit. If you are able to visit 15 of them you can turn in the book and have it entered in a drawing for some very nice trips and prizes. This is the third year we are doing it…..maybe this time. We set a record a couple of weeks ago when we stopped at six wineries on a Friday afternoon. Fortunately we had a nice little picnic lunch before starting, helped to absorb some of that alcohol. This trip took place in our northwest corner (Litchfield County) and included stops in East Canaan, a few in Goshen and a two in New Hartford. These trips have proven really enjoyable. Vineyard owners all have been very nice and in most case quite informative. At these stops we’ve had a chance to meet people from all over the country tasting our Connecticut wines. Some of which, by the way, are quite nice. Here’s a vineyard owner we met a few weeks ago on out southeastern trip.

Hope you all enjoy the rest of this summer. Hopefully the brain will begin working again and I’ll have something interesting for you.