The Daily for Sunday 04/17/2022

[richwmn]

 

Easter Sunday

Today is Nothing Like a Dame Day, Blah, Blah, Blah Day, and National Kickball Day
 

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.--J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Meal Suggestion for today - Baked Ham
Drink of the Day - Fireside Coco
Wine of the Day - Jean-Luc Colombo 2018 Les Ruchets (Cornas) Rhône
Destination of the Day - Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Ships With Passengers

At Sea

Eurodam   Destination Puerto Quetzal, Gu

Cabo San Lucas, MX

Zuiderdam  

Fort Lauderdale, Port Everglades, Florida

Nieuw Statendam   07:00 - 16:00

Rotterdam   07:00 - 16:00

Honolulu, HI

Koningsdam  

Huatulco, La Crucecita, Mexico Riviera

Nieuw Amsterdam   08:00 - 17:00

Ukrainian Refugee Housing

Rotterdam Waalhaven

Volendam  

Ships Without Passengers

Freeport, BS

Zaandam   Anchorage

Long Beach, CA US

Westerdam   Anchorage

Palermo, IT

Oosterdam   Anchorage

Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale FL US

Noordam  

 

 

 

[Sea Viewer]

Happy Easter everyone,

Sunrise today.

[rafinmd]

Thank you for the Easter Daily, Rich,  Will be delayed today as I'm watching a sunrise service.

 

Roy

[puppycanducruise]

Good morning.  Thanks for the Daily Report.

We had a light dusting of snow overnight, spring is delayed.🙁

 

Interesting days.  Nothing like a Dame!  Love it.  What an honour.  Love Blah, Blah, Blah too.  Never played kickball, but it looks like fun.

Love the quote.

The dinner suggestion sounds good, but not for us today.

Hope the drink and wine are tasty.

I've never been to the Cook Islands, looking forward to seeing pictures.

 

We're planning on visiting my mom this afternoon.  I made a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting for her. 🙂

 

Prayers for our world.

Stay safe.

[seagarsmoker]

Thanks for the Daily Report and Happy Easter everyone!

[Mr. Boston]

Good morning everyone and happy Easter.  I love the quote (and Catcher in the Rye). We will be having ham later today with our dear friends who are visiting from France.  Have not been to today’s port but it’s on our bucket list.  Prayers for everyone on today’s prayer list and for the Ukraine.  Cheers to everyone celebrating happy events today and to the Easter Bunny!

[cat shepard]

Happy Birthday @JAM37

 

Julia, may your new year be filled with love, laughter, great health & a cruise!

 

[puppycanducruise]

@JAM37 Happy Birthday! 🎂

[grapau27]

 

 

Happy Easter.

Edited April 17, 2022 by grapau27

[cat shepard]

Thank you for today’s Daily, Rich. A bit cloudy, but a comfortable 68 this morning. Showers may or may not happen. 

 

Thank you for keeping our lists, Roy! Morning Dailyites. Hoping to enjoy Easter dinner out on the lanai. The pool is still a bit too cool for me, but perhaps my 14 year old great nephew will enjoy it. 

 

Sunday smiles…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prayers for all who need our support. Cheers to all who are celebrating! Stay well everyone!

 

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Jean-Luc Colombo 2018 Les Ruchets (Cornas) Rhône
This Syrah has excellent ratings from experts and reviewers. Though I could not find info using my regular source, I love this alternate site, and wished I could find all the wines on it. It is a bit outside of my budget range, but…. Several online distributors with prices starting at $70.00.

 

BACKGROUND

Innovation, passion and dedication are what drives Jean-Luc and Anne Colombo, whose contributions to Rhône Valley winemaking is unparalleled. A devotee of the Syrah grape and armed with a pharmacy degree, Jean-Luc and his wife, Anne, opened their wine laboratory in 1984, “Centre Oenologique des Côtes du Rhône” and quickly developed a thriving reputation as a wine consultant throughout France. For their significant life-long contributions to their country, both Jean-Luc and Anne have been awarded the French Legion of Honor, France’s highest civilian award. Today, Jean-Luc Colombo’s wines express the typicity of their terroir with elegance and character, from the northern Rhône to his Provençal roses.

TERROIR & VINTAGE NOTES

The heart of the Colombo winery is based in Cornas, one of the smallest appellations in the Rhône Valley with 375 acres. Cornas, the birthplace of Syrah, has 300 million year old decomposed granite subsoils and dry-farmed vineyards, as irrigation is not permitted. Maximum yields are 34 hl/ha.
Les Ruchets (The Beehives) is Colombo’s icon wine with his first release in 1987. Les Ruchets is a single vineyard of 5.4 acres within Chaillot designation, with vines that average 90 years old, 38° slope, and a yield of 17 hl/ha. The vineyard has been certified organic by Ecocert since 2016.
The 2018 vintage shows an excellent, even exceptional quality characterized by of the levels of polyphenols and record anthocyanins which indicate the potential for obtaining colorful and tannic, age-worthy wines. The harvest period was early this year with perfectly healthy grapes. Mid-August rains lowered extreme summer temperatures; however, it also created some bursts of berries and insect attacked which required preharvest stripping. This damage was mitigated in early September by the dry, rather warm and windy weather. Les Ruchets was harvested on September 10th.

WINEMAKING

Grapes are hand-harvested and de-stemmed. Fermentation takes places in stainless steel tanks; 30-day maceration.

AGEING

The wine is aged for 22 months in oak barrels, 15% in new, 85% in one- to three-year-old oak barrels. The wine is bottled unfiltered and is vegan.

TASTING NOTES

A superb, deep black cherry color. On the nose, complex and elegant with notes of spices, violets, and black fruit and vanilla. On the palate, powerful, structured notes of black fruit, herbs, white pepper and blueberry. Delicious with game such as duck, hare, or pigeon, but also perfect with a roasted entrecote steak.

Reviews

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[portofrome]

Thank you for the Daily Report.

[kazu]

Thanks for our Sunday Daily, Rich.  Happy Easter everyone!

And a very happy Ramadan and Passover to our CC friends who celebrate either.

 

Interesting collection of days.  Never liked the term dame but I do like the sentiment.  Guess I will celebrate Blah Blah day later on at my friends, hopefully.

 

 

 Like the Salinger quote except I disagree with the last sentence.  There have been several authors I admired and would have loved to have talked to them.

 

 

The meal suggestion for today is what we will be having tonight, I’m quite sure 😉   I’ll pass on today’s wine although it sounds good because a) it’s too expensive and b) I can’t drink most reds 😉. Cook islands were very rainy for us so I have no pictures worthy of posting.

 

Looks like I didn’t do a good job of celebrating bean counter day yesterday 😱 Crappy Tire had a couple of appliances on sale that have been on my radar after listening to the raves from @ger_77 and others.  So on the way back from the hospital, I stopped in (ugh) and became a member of the air fryer club.  Mine is a compact one.  Just have to figure out where to put it 😂 

 

 

@JAM37a very happy birthday to you:

 

 

It’s another miserable rainy day here.  Yesterday turned out that way too. Of course, it was right when I was driving home and unloading my stuff from the car 😉   Good Friday should be rainy but Easter Sunday should always be sunny IMO.  Oh well - one negative test done last night.  Another one later today, I hope 👍 

 

 

Prayers for everyone on the Care list & for those that need them and a 🥂 to those on the Celebratory / Shout Out list.

 

Have a great Sunday everyone !

 

 

Stay safe & please don’t forget your 😷 when / where needed.

[dobiemom]

[puppycanducruise]

@kazuI'm a member of the Air Fryer club too.  So far, all I've made in it are french fries and breaded chicken.  I guess I need to look up some more recipes.

[marshhawk]

@JAM37

 

[dfish]

@JAM37

 

 

 

[GTVCRUISER]

Happy Easter 🙂 🥚🐰

[GTVCRUISER]

🙂

 

 

 

 

[4966and556]

Thank you for the Daily Report!  Happy Easter, Passover and Ramadan, if you observe/celebrate any of them. 

[Heartgrove]

Typing while chewing Betel Nuts.

 

Happy Easter, Passover, and those celebrating Ramadon! Thank you Rich for the Daily Report, thank you Roy for the Cares and Celebration Report, and thank you Debbie for today's recipes. And thank you all for being here!

 

- Jack

[dfish]

Good morning, everyone, and a happy and blessed Easter to all who are celebrating.  It is also Passover and Ramadan.   I saw a meme that said if we combine all those prayers maybe we can be granted peace.  

 

Today's meal is the traditional Easter dinner.   I'm taking a pass as I am not a ham fan.  But, I hope everyone else enjoys their Easter ham.   Baking a ham is pretty easy.  The variation comes with the glaze that we put on the ham for flavoring.   This first one is an easy brown sugar glaze.  https://www.spendwithpennies.com/baked-ham-with-brown-sugar-glaze/

 

 

This next one is also a brown sugar glaze with spices for a different flavor.    https://dinnerthendessert.com/baked-ham-with-brown-sugar-glaze/

 

 

Next up is a ham with a honey mustard glaze.   My mom always used brown sugar and mustard.  https://www.mashed.com/356213/baked-ham-recipe/

 

 

And it wouldn't be ham without pineapple on it!   Mom did that as well.  https://www.thespruceeats.com/baked-ham-with-pineapple-3051040

 

 

Prayers for all who need them, especially Ukraine and our Daily Family members.  Cheers to those who are celebrating.  Wishing you all a happy Easter, Passover, or Ramadan, if you celebrate.   

[rafinmd]

Thank you for the Easter Daily, Rich and Happy Easter or Passover to all who celebrate either.  I don't think I've ever actually seen South Pacific but it has great songs.  I don't expect today to be Blah, Blah, Blah.  I haven't played kickball since perhaps elementary school.  Been to Rarotonga twice, both on Crystal.  interesting Salinger quote.  Actually planning Baked Ham tonight.  My alternative is Orange and Grapefruit Medley, Chilled Blueberry Soup and Penne Primavera as served on MS Amsterdam April 17, 2014.  Pleased to hear @kazu has one negative test already but wish the weather there was better.  @grapau27 enjoy your final sea day.

 

Today’s care list:

 

Strength for Jacqui
Sea Viewer DH recovering from heart attack and reluctant to take care of himself
Lady Hudson SIL in rehab after stroke
Gracie with possible stroke
Hartgrove older sister entering hospice
Durangoscots new leaky shelter roof
From the rotation:
Ukraine
Jen slow recovery from fall
Welfare of furloughed crews
Mr Boston’s sister with shingles

 

Celebrations and Shoutouts:

Ramadan, Easter, and Passover converging
Rotterdam,

Nieuw Statendam,

and Noordam in Everglades

Volendam housing refugees
Noordam in service April rather than May
6 BHB with guests
Happy Birthday JAM37
Lady Hudson visiting SIL
lazey1 BIL good surgery outcome
msmayor, her daughter, and her great bosses
ottahand7 DB almost ready for rehab discharge
Bon Voyage  sailingdutchy (Nieuw Statendam 4/17 to 5/8)
Cruzin Terri (Nautica 4/11 to 5 /5) at sea
Kazu’s at Easter Dinner with friends
Welcome home Heartgrove DW and DSIL
Dismomx5 on grandchild watch
Norseh2o on family  celebration
Koningsdan Staff Captain Sabine - Our first female Staff Captain and HAL’s likely first female Captain(I know this is a repeat but she’s worth it)

Roy

 

 

[0106]

This morning’s sunrise over Ocean City, MD.

 I hope everyone is able to enjoy this special day with family and friends.

[aliaschief]

Edited April 17, 2022 by aliaschief

[aliaschief]

Preparing for church. Happy Easter and Sabbath to all!