Pg 10 November 4
ART & WINE TASTING SINGLES PARTY
Celebration: Meet new friends who appreciate fine art and fine wine! $20/advance (by Nov 3) or $30/door includes all the wines you can taste, from boutique wineries; ac- companied by appetizers to cleanse the palate, including the award winning Salmon Mousse. Adults of all ages welcome. Dress to impress. Room Fine Art Gallery, 1320 Fourth St, Petaluma. Fee: $30 Time: 8-10pm. 415-507-9962
November 4 HARVEST
WINEMAKER DINNER AT HARTFORD
FAMILY WINERY
Winemaker Dinner: Join us for our annual Harvest time Wine- maker Dinner with proprietors Don & Jenny Hartford, along with our new winemaker Jeff Stewart. A four-course dinner including some of our latest vintages of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Old-Vine Zinfandel will be featured. 8075 Marti- nelli Road, Forestville, CA. Fee: $130, $100 for wine club members. Time: 6 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. (800) 588-0234
November 5
NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
SUPPER AT RELISH
Food Education: Chef and author Kathy Gunst will lead participants
in creating a
complete holiday dinner with recipes from Kathy's book. Of course the menu features sea- sonal Sonoma County ingredi- ents sprinkled with New Eng- land favorites like maple syrup and wild blueberries. We'll feast on our supper paired with premium local wines. 14 Matheson St., Healdsburg. Fee: $96. Time: 6:00 - 9:00pm (707)431-9999
10 • November 2011 • UPBEAT TIMES
A magician was working on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. The audience would be different each week, so the magician allowed himself to do the same tricks over and over again. There was only one problem: The captain's parrot saw the shows every week and began to understand what the magician did in every trick. Once he understood that, he started shouting in the middle of the show. "Look, it's not the same hat!" "Look, he's hiding the flowers under the table!" "Hey, why are all the cards the Ace of Spades?" The magician was furious but couldn't do anything, it was the captain's parrot after all. One day the ship had an acci- dent and sank. The
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magician found himself on a piece of wood, in the middle of the ocean, and of course the parrot was by his side. They stared at each other with hate, but did not utter a word. This went on for several days.
After a week the parrot finally said, "Okay, I give up. What'd you do with the boat?"
Weird Facts & Trivia - 4
The largest Albacore caught by rod & reel is 88 pounds, caught November 19, 1977 off the Canary Islands.
Albacore tunas range from 24-36 inches in length and weigh 20-40 pounds. They can probably live to 10 years, maturing around five. Albacore are dark blue on top, with a lighter underbelly. They are found in temper- ate waters and live longer and grow more slowly than tropical tunas.
Alaska has a land area of about 366 million acres, with 86,238 acreas of cropland and 737,746 acres of pastureland. There are 442 acres of certified organic cropland.
During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded them for gold.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ~ Ambrose Bierce
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