News from Tuscany

This year in October Ray and I headed out to the Westin in Maui. The plane tickets were over a thousand dollars and we are getting pretty tired of the Hawaiian Islands. We kicked ourselves for not jumping on a plane to Italy to hlep with the 2008 harvest at Barbara and Ugo's home in Tuscany, since the flight would have been similar in cost. However, we just got news from Ugo that the 2008 harvest was eaten by deer while he was away helping his aunt who broke her leg. We don't know if it happened before or after our trip to Hawaii but all we can think is that if we were there we might have helped prevent it happening or if we arrived too late been there to help drown the pain with our friends. We won't make that mistake again. This year we'll have to take a trip back over to visit (and we need to see how the 2007 wine is doing). Cheers to a new year to all and to making all the right decisions this year.