Wedding, Wine, and Woman

The wedding plans are progressing - I guess. My opinion hasn’t been sought. I hear a little about it but for the most part, I haven’t been let into the inner circle. I'm okay with that. The wedding is about six weeks away, I’m sure DOR (Daughter of Ralph) and Char will make it all come together.

Last night when I walked in, I saw six bottles of wine on the table. Actually, our kitchen table is not that large and you would have to work hard not to see six bottles of wine. Wine at our house is not an uncommon site. We just don’t buy it by the case. Unless of course we give a wine tour in Palisade.

It’s time to select the wines for the wedding. So, after dinner DOR, our neighbor, Char, and SILOR (Son in Law of Ralph), opened a few bottle to select the right one. Last night was red wine night. While I like the taste of red wine, I don’t do well with it so I sipped my ice tea. I think a decision was made but cannot tell you what it was, see the sentence above which reads, “My opinion hasn’t been sought.”

Tomorrow is DOR’s birthday but we celebrated early. DOR and SILOR will be gone looking for a place to live after the wedding and handling some work items. To celebrate we took DOR and SILOR out to dinner, prior to the wine tasting. It was a fun evening but for a brief time, at least for me, it was one of those reflective moments. While I was snapping this picture, I got thinking about the young woman in the camera lens. I flashed back twenty-three years to when she was born. I was also thinking this is the last birthday she will just be our daughter. On her next birthday, she will still be our daughter but she will also be SILOR’s wife.

SILOR is a great guy and I am sure he will be a good husband. My first clue was his sense of humor – I mean he laughs at all my jokes. Secondly, he has taken up golf. We haven’t played since they arrived but that will change as tasks for the wedding draw to a close. However, he recently asked me for a bit of advice. I’ll post about that later.