bgbigdog said:
Ursa Major said:
I quit chewing tobacco. f***! I'm a quitter too!
& I quit waiting on peach vodka. Bastard.
Update: I quit ordering salmon Cesar’s & Chardonnay in Cali for fear of having the table turned over. Not something I’m proud of & fortunately Mexican food is readily available.
Apparently some people don't understand or appreciate the sacrifice or length of time it takes a family run small-scale fruit flavored distillery to get up and running.
Last fall my brother in law and head vitner, Vladmir, ran into some legal trouble when the police found him asleep at 3:30 AM in the parking lot of the Bardinay Restaurant and Destilery. They trumped up some bogus criminal mischief charges on him because he was driving a container truck. Oh, and in the front cab they found a crowbar, a ski mask and 650 ft. of garden hose. He was eventually released following a lengthy deportation hearing when the Russians refused to take him back.
Then last November I get a
cease and desist operations letter from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Apparently, you have to be "licensed" :roll: to distill and sell liquor. Who knew the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had anything to do with the production of alcohol?
Then, one of my Russian mail-order bride's younger twin sisters, Onya or Inya, was partially blinded this past winter after sampling one of the early batches of vodka. I don't actually know if it was Inya or Onya, l rarely look at their eyes. The good news is I was able to market the rest of the batch to the local Russian community as antifreeze and a dipilatory solution.
The peach pits I planted in the yard last fall still show no life, although it has been a late spring here in Boise. However, I'm confident we'll have bushels of vine ripened peaches by August! :thumb: