4/2/2023 0 Comments My neighbor feeling hot part1![]() I couldn’t wait, but the wine was making me sleepy. ![]() “Tomorrow, we’ll go walk to see my neighbor, she’s the one with all the fruits and nuts.” exclaimed our gracious hostess. This city girl was fascinated by country life. In the kitchen were pomegranates, persimmons, huge lemons, and table grapes all from the surrounding area. And here the walnuts were falling off of the trees. I just paid a whopping $10 for a small bag of walnuts from the grocery store. I was fascinated that the nuts came from someone’s yard. In a world where everything is packaged and ready-to-eat food products are the norm, it was kind of cool to actually crack the nuts myself. ![]() ![]() We used a mortar and pestle to crack the nuts and as I was standing there in the kitchen cracking nuts, a feeling of excitement came over me. We stayed up, drinking a bottle (or two) of Clos Du Val Chardonnay–from grapes that grow in the region and had freshly picked fruits and walnuts from the neighbor’s fields. We decided to stay and get a taste of country life, California style. The house is surrounded by 360 degrees of Cabernet grapes. ![]() Danna’s family lives in the famed Stag’s Leap area in the back roads of Napa. ![]()
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