Flying Grapes

UPDATE: (9/22/06)
Bottle is nestled safely in casa de PinF. Gracias CNN.

My dear friend CNN, bless her little heart--has sent the PinF a bottle of vino. Or has she? Such is the crisis in PinF's blog fueled life this week. CNN, in act of blissful friendship and affection for her favorite southern based BLOG decided to lose control and wire PinF a botttle of vino. Apparently CNN has discovered her new "favorite" wine of the week and was so moved she decided to share her discovery with the PinF--one of the reasons PinF digs the CNN--her spontaneity. Well of course this wine has now taken on a "nectar of the Gods" status as I've awaited it's triumphant arrival here in the "Sunshine State". But wait! Where is it? Oh yeah that's right, it's in Pennsylvania. What?, Pennsylvania you say? I thought they couldn't ship alcohol to that archaic, Puritan state with a legal monopoly on alcohol? Apparently you can. It would seem that maybe my dear friend maybe had too much of her beloved new RED when she ordered online and sent it to herself, a sort of Fruedian/Alcohol "slip" I guess.

Well you can imagine the "life" this bottle has assumed in our many conversations, emails, and snarky comments to each other all week. The bottle has been re-routed(due to CNN getting mad at PinF), then it was "cancelled", resent, and finally, it was confirmed as on its way after being re-shipped from the great Puritanical lands of the Keystone state. So where are we now? Well PinF arrived home from work yesterday, parked his moto and saw what he thought was a check on the ground by my flower beds, I picked it up discovering a "UPS was here" sticky note sticking to nothing but the mulch in my yard (as opposed to the door). It said they had made an attempt, but that they needed a signature and proof that I was over 21. They also said they'd return between 2-5PM. Great--but there's another problem-- since PinF is over 21 he has this thing called a J-O-B, you know that place you're usually found at between the hours of 2 and 5PM.....

This wine better be good. Considering it went a whole season on the vines of California, then flew to Philadelphia, then back to the airport, and then down to Florida, this wine has traveled and matured, along the way it has garnered a cult-like status. It would be easy to get caught up in the quagmire of laws, shipping, and screwed up orders---PinF won't. Instead he'll focus on the "donut" since CNN's friendly gesture far and away overshadows the weird journey this bottle has taken. In honor of this fact PinF will carry it around a bit, maybe take it to the beach, then back home and will wait for just the right time to enjoy this wine.....I'm sure neither she nor I have heard the last of this bottles' story.