What a day. Gonna be busy as hell. We are trying to get to the winery Marika works at and wa home before our guests arrive for a nice party we are hosting tonight. Emily had an idea to surprise Marika and go as well as show Michael how it looked.
Anyway, up early and Emily went to yoga. I had to run to the hardware store for locks and bungees. I need to lock down the dog run since Kona was able to get out of it on her own. We were gone and came back to find her wandering. Not good. So lock down it is.
Got home , put up the dog modifications and cleaned up for the trip to Windsor. Also, Darrell was here to fix the siding on the house and garage. I had to pay him before we left since he’d be gone when we returned. So basically just trusted him to do it all and disappear. Im sure it will be fine.
We left at about 1015 to pickup Emily in Vacaville at yoga. Faster to do it on the way. We drove first to downtown Napa. I had an order of wine and spirits to pick up from the Bounty Hunter. Some gifts, some not. Then off to Somoma-Cutrer winery. Took about two hours or so to get there.
First blush, place is dead. As can be seen from the empty parking lot. You can also see we brought Kona with us. Michael was worried about her. We were the only party here for awhile. We had time for a nice visit with the staff. We had some snacks, tastes a few wines, and relaxed. Good news, Marika got to go home early so w all left together. A nice surprise.
We drove back home. Everyone fell asleep. 
I fell asleep too but I did not take a picture of myself.
We are having friends over for fondue and wine tasting. I am going to open the bottle I won at the wine dinner earlier this month. Barb will be here tonight, she was at that dinner and I promised to share.
Fondue is alot of fun. We had a hot oil pot for the meat and also a cheese fondue. Fondue requires a lot of work just to feed yourself. It’s difficult to even get enough. And we had alot of forks in the pots. During dinner I opened two nice bottles of red, one the prize. We had a great time. 
After dinner we had wine tasting, my second of the day. Just for fun and also a fantastic way to start an argument. No one came to blows. The wine tasting slid into whisky tasting which was probably a mistake but oh well. Some of the group went to play games in the family room. I drank whisky. Everyone was pretty drunk. Good time had by all.
I do not remember too much after the wine tasting. I did end up in bed. My bed. I think Michael ended up sownstaira on the couch. He fell asleep sitting up.
By the way, we ran out of propane tonight. Which is a story for tomorrow which is Christmas eve.