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Unfortunately for me, I took her to Valentines Dinner in Yellowstone in 2013, so I can't ever beat that one. After dinner that night we sat out on the boardwalk by Old Faithful for a few hours. Two feet of snow, halfa foot an hour falling. It was beyond awesome.

 

So we had our 39th Valentines dinner tonight at Fornaletto, a favorite there at the Borgata in AC. And we toasted our good luck, good fortune, and sometimes good planning.

 

Happy Valentines Day!

 

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Gave her a g-string and wax job. [scared]

 

Yup I love my Les Paul, lol.

 

Well, at least I laughed. Unfortunately my wife came down with shingles and is in pain. It's a mild case and she refuses to go to the doctor so brought home a "Feast for Two from Famous Daves" and gave her, her favorite chocolates and a card.

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Made her three cards, and a video of our trips over the years set to two of her favorite songs, Bought her some candy (chocolates of course) bought roses and made her dinner of her favorites,fillet mignon baked tater brussel sprouts and salad. We do not do a lot for birthdays and Christmas for eachother. When you have a lot of grandkids Christmas is about them. We also take a couple vacations a year. Vacations and Valentine's Day is our thing for each other.

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Simple Pleasures.

We just stayed in and the wife had an evening dedicated to her.

 

A bottle of her favourite Champagne as an aperitif, the best fillet steak known to mankind served simply with buttered extra-fine green beans for main washed down with an excellent old Margaux and some Drambuie-laced Haagen-Dazs ice-cream to finish followed by chocolates on the sofa.

She got to choose which film we would watch and the winner was 'Roman Holiday'. Our 12-y-o daughter is going to be heading off to Rome and Sorrento on a school trip soon and she also happens to be a big fan of Ms. Hepburn so it all fitted in perfectly.

 

Oh, I also made the wife a card. She has a pollen allergy so I get off the hook as far as flowers are concerned...

 

Pip.

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Simple Pleasures.

We just stayed in and the wife had an evening dedicated to her.

 

A bottle of her favourite Champagne as an aperitif, the best fillet steak known to mankind served simply with buttered extra-fine green beans for main washed down with an excellent old Margaux

 

Oh my, it's been thirty years since we enjoyed a split of Margaux with a couple steaks on the grill in our Knapton Hill backyard overlooking the south shore of Bermuda. I admire the cut of your jib. Clicquot for opener, I presume? Perrier maybe? Straight razor bubbly Moet? I'm guessing not a California. I'm living vicariously through your proximity to The Sparkling Wine Promised Land.

 

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Oh my, it's been thirty years since we enjoyed a split of Margaux with a couple steaks on the grill in our Knapton Hill backyard overlooking the south shore of Bermuda. I admire the cut of your jib. Clicquot for opener, I presume? Perrier maybe? Straight razor bubbly Moet? I'm guessing not a California. I'm living vicariously through your proximity to The Sparkling Wine Promised Land.

 

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I, myself, prefer the Veuve and I almost had to settle for a bottle of their NV Yellow Label but the wife's favourite Champagne-house is Lanson - which is a bit of a bugger because not every shop hereabouts carries the marque. I found one in the end, though, on the third attempt so all was well with the world. Perrier-Jouet would be her 'runner-up'.

Four or five times a year we take the car through the Channel Tunnel and manage to stock up with vittles - confit de canard; foie gras and so on. We always seem to bring back around 80 bottles of fermented grape juice. Our next visit is now overdue; we've still got some Claret - a few each of St. Estephe, St. Julien, Pomerol and Pauillac - but that's about it. The white ran out in mid-Jan and our last red Burgundy went earlier than that......msp_scared.gif......

 

I'm guessing you already know the famous quote from Lily Bollinger (doyen of the Maison Bollinger from 1941 - 71)?

 

"I drink Champagne when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it -- unless I'm thirsty."

 

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Absolutely nothing. And it was my wedding anniversary too. You're all a bunch of saps. [flapper]

 

Thankfully my wife is astute enough to know that valentine's day is a blatent con operated by card makers and florists. Never a consideration in my house. We decided not to spend on the anniversary front because we'd like to try to have a proper holiday this year.

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I, myself, prefer the Veuve and I almost had to settle for a bottle of their NV Yellow Label but the wife's favourite Champagne-house is Lanson - which is a bit of a bugger because not every shop hereabouts carries the marque. I found one in the end, though, on the third attempt so all was well with the world. Perrier-Jouet would be her 'runner-up'.

Four or five times a year we take the car through the Channel Tunnel and manage to stock up with vittles - confit de canard; foie gras and so on. We always seem to bring back around 80 bottles of fermented grape juice. Our next visit is now overdue; we've still got some Claret - a few each of St. Estephe, St. Julien, Pomerol and Pauillac - but that's about it. The white ran out in mid-Jan and our last red Burgundy went earlier than that......msp_scared.gif......

 

I'm guessing you already know the famous quote from Lily Bollinger (doyen of the Maison Bollinger from 1941 - 71)?

 

"I drink Champagne when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it -- unless I'm thirsty."

 

These are tears of jealous rage I shed, I fear that if I lived as close as you I would be that crazy expat living in the gutter in his tux and a bottle of ordinary Moet in a paper bag. I live that quote as much as possible while retaining all of the qualities of a decent life. I'm the guitar player nursing a Prosecco for two sets while the others put down 7 light beers. Those reds you mention were an ordinary part of our life in Bermuda, less these days because we both just can't drink like that anymore.

 

We have a milestone approaching, Lanson will be the tipple of choice, thank you for the hint! Probably the Rose, so don't hate us too hard.

 

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These are tears of jealous rage I shed, I fear that if I lived as close as you I would be that crazy expat living in the gutter in his tux and a bottle of ordinary Moet in a paper bag. I live that quote as much as possible while retaining all of the qualities of a decent life....Those reds you mention were an ordinary part of our life in Bermuda, less these days because we both just can't drink like that anymore.

 

We have a milestone approaching, Lanson will be the tipple of choice, thank you for the hint! Probably the Rose, so don't hate us too hard...

Sorry to go off-topic for a minute but...

 

Recently found documents show Rose Champagne being made as far back as 1764 (by Ruinart) so it has a reasonable track record!

 

Lanson's Rose Champagne is, coincidentally, the most popular Rose in the UK. Be advised that it's quite a 'fine' Champagne, though (in the same way as a Margaux is a 'fine' Claret). If a Margaux rather than a St. Julien is more to your taste then I'm sure you'd both love it but if you and the missus prefer 'bigger' flavours then it might not be the Champagne for you....and I know you do have a soft spot for "La Grande Dame"......as, indeed, do I...................

 

And as far as drinking half-way decent plonk goes;

Buying cheaper-end wine in France would be a complete waste of energy and time. Cheap French wine can be had in Britain for around the same as it costs to buy in France. Going for slightly better quality wines, though, are MUCH more expensive to buy - roughly 50% more - in the UK than in France and some are double the French price. The 'savings' we make on the quantity we buy more than easily pays for the crossing.

 

And, as they say, "Life's too short for Bad Wine".

 

Pip.

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I used to get her flowers and have them delivered at the gig (we played 6 HVD gigs this year), but we watched a documentary about the flower industry about 10 years ago, and decided we did not want to be a part of that. Too bad, because I got good 'points' from her and it wowed the audience as well.

 

Leilani is also a yoga instructor (Iyengar method) and like all good teachers, she takes lessons from a teachers' teacher. She really enjoys them and doesn't go as often as she wants to because of the expense, so I got her a 20 lesson gift certificate. It's much more expensive than flowers, but it will last a lot longer too, and the knowledge she gets won't wither as long as she lives.

 

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Absolutely nothing. And it was my wedding anniversary too. You're all a bunch of saps. [flapper]

 

Thankfully my wife is astute enough to know that valentine's day is a blatent con operated by card makers and florists. Never a consideration in my house. We decided not to spend on the anniversary front because we'd like to try to have a proper holiday this year.

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Jewelry.... nearly always it's jewelry. My wife loves jewelry. We could fill a small shed with her jewelry. Fortunately she does not love expensive jewelry, so this was something I picked up at one of the Smithsonian museums when I was in DC. Pretty but not particularly expensive.

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Bah! Humbug!!! (as someone answered earlier...msp_laugh.gif...)

 

Thankfully my wife is astute enough to know that valentine's day is a blatant con operated by card makers and florists...

My father always asserted it was a financial rip-off operated on a grand scale by the Royal Mail and the Post Office so he would have been with you guys.

Granted the commercialisation aspect has spiralled exponentially in our lifetimes but the tradition of swapping love-tokens goes back considerably longer than you might imagine;

"The day first became associated with romantic love within the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines")..."

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Bah! Humbug!!! (as someone answered earlier...msp_laugh.gif...)

 

 

My father always asserted it was a financial rip-off operated on a grand scale by the Royal Mail and the Post Office so he would have been with you guys.

Granted the commercialisation aspect has spiralled exponentially in our lifetimes but the tradition of swapping love-tokens goes back considerably longer than you might imagine;

"The day first became associated with romantic love within the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines")..."

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Pip.

And didn't the Roman Catholic church invent it to replace a Roman Pagan holiday that the people just didn't want to give up? (Lupercalia, a fertility celebration commemorated annually on February 15)

 

There are 3 days a husband cannot forget.

  1. Wife's birthday
  2. Your anniversary
  3. Valentine's day

 

Memorize them and don't forget them. :D

 

Leilani would be fine with nothing, and we are usually gigging on Valentine's day (often 6 or 7 parties - we give the retirement communities a price break if they have their party on an earlier date), but I like giving her stuff and seeing her smile. It gets returned back to me in so many ways.

 

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I get the whole rage at the machine thing about how they are manipalatin us and all but damn, of all the things to piss on, celebrating Love? Holy crap I wouldn't know how to live if we didn't have such silliness to get us through the dumb crap two people go through in some 40 years almost. At the very least, as evidenced by at least a few of us, it's a great excuse for a really good meal and some good bubbles, which we did enjoy very much! Presents? Nahh, we done did all dat long ago, no need now. It really is the thought that counts.

 

Yellowstone Valentines Day is forever with us and can't be forgotten or even approached for specialness, but we'll manage with something else until we have a Valentines Day in Paris or something!

 

rct

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And didn't the Roman Catholic church invent it to replace a Roman Pagan holiday that the people just didn't want to give up?...

Yup. In exactly the same way as the pagan festival of Saturnalia was replaced by Christmas.

It was quite a clever move by the church, though; no-one had their celebration day cancelled and over time the Christian festival(s) gained the upper hand.

 

...I like giving her stuff and seeing her smile. It gets returned back to me in so many ways...

This!

 

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In fact it's a very good idea to give some surprise little presents on days which are NOT the obvious ones just for the little bit of joy it creates for everyone concerned.

 

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I get the whole rage at the machine thing about how they are manipalatin us and all but damn, of all the things to piss on, celebrating Love? Holy crap I wouldn't know how to live if we didn't have such silliness to get us through the dumb crap two people go through in some 40 years almost....

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The point of life is to enjoy the time we have above ground.

If you can give pleasure to others at the same time it's a Win-Win for everyone.

 

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