tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36150257124883701492024-03-05T23:23:14.572-08:00Daryl's PonderingsDaryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-85495958759393347312020-03-09T11:13:00.001-07:002020-04-05T17:29:25.978-07:00What a Wonderful Life - Part TwoI've been thinking about this part two even before I wrote part one. This will not be easy, but I'll start with the easier stuff and move on from there.<br />
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If you read any of my prior posts you know I've written extensively about Fair Play and the changes over the years. There have been a few recent changes that need to be noted. Single Leaf Winery has sold and the new winery will open when allowed to open. The <span style="background-color: white;">Medeiros</span> family is from the San Jose area where they have recently closed their winery and are telling their wine club to come to Fair Play. They have great wine making experience, so I have all the faith in the world they will take Scot Miller's Single Leaf grapes and make some fabulous wines. Perry Creek Winery was in escrow, but that has now been stopped.The winery was closed for a while so ABC could be satisfied. Deter Jurgens has had a battle with cancer, but recently and thankfully it is in remission. Toogood Winery has been bought by the Middelstaedt Family. Ron and Darin are having their sons, Brad and Tim do the on site daily work, while Tm's fiance, Kayla, will see to it all that daily stuff is actually done right. When daughter Haley finishing college in Texas she will join her brothers. Ron and Darin are going to bounce around on weekends welcoming guests and establishing new friendships. The new owners have promised to have special tastings in the cave and use the out buildings for everyday tasting experiences.<br />
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Sonia Baron opened Bom Vinho Winery, the newest winery in the Fair Play Appellation. It is located next to Mellowood on Omo Ranch Rd., Sonia has some Vermentino (one of Lucinda's favorites) among their tasting flight. All in all their wines are good and competitively priced. Another California State Fair <b><i><span style="color: orange;">Golden Bear</span></i></b> has been bestowed upon a Fair Play Winery. Gwinlan Estate has just been honored with the <b><i><span style="color: orange;">Golden Bear</span><span style="color: #bf9000;"> </span></i></b>for their Champagne. The new owners of the Mt. Aukum mountain top, now known as Kehret Winery, have made the mountain a fabulous place to visit. The road up the hill has been resurfaced for smooth sailing and they are continuing to expand and improve the grounds so you can enjoy that million dollar view.<br />
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The Pub at Fair Play has been closed for some time now, which has now been replaced by the excellent Creekside Cork and Brew. Everyone, locals and visitors alike, has raved about the three most important things for a restaurant: 1) hospitality/service; 2) quality of food; and 3) timing of getting your food. With A+ ratings so far, there is great hope Creekside will be here for many years to come. Gold Vine Grill has sold. The new ownership, Liz, is struggling with the county to get going. The great news is they haven't given up yet and hope to open by May 1st, if the virus lets them </div>
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As I've said before, things are a changing in Fair Play. We have three trips planned for later this year that solidifies us moving on with our lives. That means we are finally retiring. We have turned over the reins of Lucinda's Country Inn after our 25+ years of love and caring for her. We started our planning in 1994 in South Coast Metro in Southern California. As we move on, Lucinda's Country Inn will still be Lucinda's Country Inn. After many months of escrow work, the great people known as the Hasko Family will assume stewardship of Lucinda's. We have complete confidence in their abilities and willingness to keep the highest quality of Lucinda's Country Inn experience for you.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Sunnymarie will be the dominate face you see, but Michael, AJ and Brenda are right beside her and following her guidance so that everything will be a fabulous transition form the old folks to the much younger and energetic folks. (We used to be young young and energetic once too. Used to be is the operative words and that's why we are turning over the reins.)</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">We have loved making Lucinda's Country Inn, Lucinda's. The great friends and guests we have enjoyed over the years will always be close to our hearts and our memories filled with great joy. We can <span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">NOT</span> emphasis enough how much all of you mean to us. Fair Play and Lucinda's has been home for us the longest period in our lives and will always be our top spot for our little getaways.</span></div>
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Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-59476376930785513942019-09-02T13:53:00.000-07:002019-09-02T13:53:28.282-07:00What a Wonderful Life - Part OneI've been thinking about what to write since the last post in April. That one ended with my heart on my sleeve. This one will be a lot different, I promise. I have written about the history of Fair Play, the old and new wineries of Fair Play and about how to get to places not that far away from Fair Play. Now I'm writing a history for Lucinda's Country Inn. After fifteen years it's time to let you know how we did it.<br />
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For now I'm taking you down memory lane of what has been a 25+ year adventure for Cindy and I. When we moved to Orange County, CA in 1991 we knew we were to return to Northern California in a few short years. Cindy promised here employer she'd be there five years. Nine and a half years later we returned to start Lucinda's Country Inn. Right after we landed in South Coast Metro (the area at the seams of Costa Mesa and Santa Ana, around the South Coast Plaza Shopping Mall) we started talking about what will we do when we go home. I asked Cindy to think in terms of no longer being a bureaucrat, which she had been for 25+ years. Maybe she would like to do some type of entrepreneurial activity. After all I had lived most of my life in the private sector and it wasn't bad. Without going into all the excruciating details, she said let's do a B&B. Over the next few years we went to conferences conducted by the B&B industry and learned a lot. We started looking for RAW land in Amador and/or El Dorado Counties. We knew them both well because many years earlier we traveled them extensively, as young newlyweds. There was nothing up there but oak, pine and walnut trees and of course rattle snakes. A lot has changed. In 1997 we found the ideal spot and started our work to make it happen. Just like the pioneers, we cleared the land in order to build; well we did have chain saws, backhoes, graders and trucks. Other than that we did exactly what the pioneers did. (I still can't believe what they did to get over the Sierra Nevada Mountains.) For our labor of love and the wild ass dream of becoming Innkeepers, we sweated, we worked long hours and cleaned up with a solar shower. We went to the few nearby wineries to get gallons of water (we brought empty milk containers from home in SoCal) for the shower and the few plants we tried to get started. They all died; maybe because they got water about every three weeks.<br />
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We finally decided we had to move back north before we submitted our Special Use Permit plans in 2001. Talking with El Dorado County employees for several years, I knew we needed to babysit the process every step of the way. Everyone I talked to had a different story, so what were we to do but fight tooth and nail to get straight talk and solid answers. Our neighbors were no help. They posted a NO HOTEL sign at the edge of our property and spoke at every meeting the county had for our project. Of course they didn't know what they we talking about, but they told the county the B&B would lower property values, cause traffic jams, and besides we planned on having baseball park lights on our property where thousands of people would attend conferences. We have 11 acres with a steep slope and a seasonal creek. That didn't matter, our friendly neighbors insisted we were going to build on wetlands because one of them had plants from a wetland (the creek in winter). I loved it when a planning commissioner asked where he got the plant. To top it all off, the County had no idea about what regulations a B&B had to follow. Like friendly idiots we gave them a copy of Amador County's B&B regulations. Our County Supervisor didn't have a clue about a B&B requirements. They all were operating by the seat of their pants until a planner from Santa Cruz was hired. She knew what to do and she would tell everyone how to do it. At least that is what she thought. She wanted to be a buzz saw with us until I went from the public counter directly to the Director of Planning and informed him what she had told us and how she would set this department straight and tell the Director how to do it.<br />
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It took us one week shy of one year to get our Special Use Permit (#01-025. I remembered that; I didn't have to look it up.) So we got our loan approved and started from the trenches going up in building Lucinda's Country Inn.<br />
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Today, fifteen years ago, we had our first guests at Lucinda's Country Inn. Labor Day is the day Windwalker Winery called to see if we could accommodate some wine club members. We really weren't ready for guests but when Arnie Gilpin said they lived in Roseville and were not able to drive home we relented. Fortunately we had just completed our first Suite, later to be named the Vineyard Suite. They had to stay in the suite because the great room and dining rooms were filled with supplies and tools. They never noticed, but they enjoyed breakfast in bed the next morning. That was the only time we served breakfast in bed. We made our first money as Innkeepers. I still have a copy of the check he wrote for the stay. So a little nostalgia sets the mood for today. We have started our sixteen year of being Innkeepers at Lucinda's Country Inn.</div>
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<br />Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-90263010704454359052019-04-19T17:32:00.000-07:002019-04-19T17:32:57.009-07:00What an Honor -- A Wish Come True !!!!I've been thinking of how to say thanks. Luxury Travel Guide (LTG) has just named Lucinda's Country Inn the Romantic Luxury Retreat of 2018. That is a big deal when you consider all the places in the Americas, North, Central and South, that are considered romantic retreats. Lucinda's Country Inn in little 'ole Fair Play, CA has that distinction now. WOW!!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;">We were honored by LTG in 2015 as the </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Comic Sans MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none medium; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Most Relaxing Country Inn – El Dorado County *** Best Upscale Bed & Breakfast – Amador County *** LUX Recommended Wine Country Getaway – Amador Count</span>y. <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That was really cool and we were thrilled to be among the best in California. Now we are the best in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere. That is REALLY COOL.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Comic Sans MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none medium; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="border: medium none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none medium; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When we decided to do Lucinda's we always wanted to make her a special place for people to call it their "Home Away From Home", and many people have written reviews saying that is what they enjoyed about Lucinda's Country Inn. The design is like no other and for all the appointments we tried to think each element of each item down to the minute detail. Without all that forethought and diligent efforts over the years to keep her spotless and up to date, LTG would never have bothered to have their panel of judges even consider Lucinda's Country Inn.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here Cindy & I are going over some business plans for Lucinda's when we lived at South Coast Springs in Southern California for nine years and spent many an afternoon and evening on the condo deck or at the patio in Metro Pointe Center, sucking on iced mochas and watching kids play in the water fountain.</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span> </span></td></tr>
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I’ve been thinking about how to say this nicely. There is no way. GOOGLE is ripping off Lucinda’s. We now use what we call the OTA’s,
Online Travel Agencies; Expedia, Trivago, Hotels.com Hotwire, Etc. In order for
Lucinda’s Country Inn to get a reservation through one of the OTA’s the public generally use GOOGLE with something like, places to stay in Fair Play. Then a whole host
of places appear in the search results. (Figure One) Not Lucinda’s Country Inn, at least not
until they scroll down to the bottom of the page. (Figure 5) GOOGLE has a “Four Pack” with
four pictures and yes Lucinda’s PHOTO is one of them.(Figure 2) T he PHOTO is the only
thing about Lucinda’s. All the other information in that “Four Pack” is information
from the OTA’s listing for Lucinda’s. The OTA’s have gleaned most of their
information from our website so it looks like our website. When someone clicks
on the picture of Lucinda's you are taken to another page about Lucinda's, but not our website. (Figure 3) When you click on the BOOK A ROOM BLUE BUTTON, you are taken to yet another page that has information about making a reservation, but it is not on Lucinda's website. (Figure 4) That is through the OTA’s not
Lucinda’s website. So, GOOGLE is keeping people away from Lucinda’s Country Inn's website as long as possible so GOOGLE confuses the public and they make a
reservation right then, thinking it is through Lucinda’s website; but it is NOT.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Figure #1: This is the GOOGLE Search Results: Ads appear first</div>
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Figure # 3: This looks like Lucinda's, but it's not our website.</div>
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Figure # 5: The rest of the GOOGLE Search Results, “Organic”, are at the bottom of the page. Lucinda’s is the third one down and our website is there for you to click on.</div>
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I won’t bore you with all the statistics about this scam,
but about 75% of the people make their reservation as I just described thinking
they are at Lucinda’s, or wherever, instead of on the websites of the OTA’s. But I will explain how the OTA's are not good for our guests. We have had guests that have stayed with us many
times who can’t remember our website address and they GOOGLE "Where to stay in Far play?" and make a
reservation through one of the OTA’s. The OTA’s cannot change their reservation
once it is made and paid in full before arrival. That means if our guests want
to modify their reservation, oh well, they can’t. One guest should have received their Friend's of Lucinda's free night, but we couldn't adjust their reservation, as it was an OTA reservation. Shortly they will get their free night when they come again. We don’t have access to the
OTA information to make changes. If someone wants Champagne, Flowers or
whatever in their suite upon arrival, the OTA’s cannot help make that happen. The
guest has to contact us directly and that requires another completely different
transaction. NOT CONVENIENT. That is not what we like to do for our guests. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here’s how GOOGLE is ripping us off, and the lodging industry in
general. The OTA’s pay GOOGLE ad money to get placed in search results.
That way the OTA’s appear well above and long before anyone sees Lucinda’s
website address, so they can actually get to Lucinda’s website. When using the
OTA’s, we pay them a commission, ranging from 15% to 20% for each reservation
amount made though the OTA. That is how they are able to advertise on TV,
GOOGLE, in magazines, and online via social media. Then they make their GOOGLE ad
buys to get better results than us, even if we place ads on GOOGLE. Fair, NO!!
Is this collusion? Unlike Trump’s constant denial, you bet that is collusion.
OTA’s pay for their ads to appear before us, even our ads.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The lodging industry, including the B&B’s, has launched
a <b><i><span style="color: red;">BOOK DIRECT</span></i></b> campaign to let the public know that they should <b><i><span style="color: red;">BOOK DIRECT</span></i></b> with
the places they want to stay. That way the guests will know exactly where they
will be and that place will take care of them. I recommend you <b><i><span style="color: red;">bookmark</span></i></b> the
places you frequent, in stead of using GOOGLE. That way you KNOW you are booking
with Lucinda’s and if there needs to be modifications made, I can make them for
you. If you want to enhance your stay you can pick those items you want at the
time you make your reservation and you don’t have to go through the hassle of
extra communication with me, to get those things you want.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red;">Bookmark</span></i></b> your favorite places. <b><i><span style="color: red;">BOOK DIRECT</span></i></b> to save yourself some frustration.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-67416285497478200882019-01-21T16:07:00.000-08:002019-01-21T16:07:35.774-08:00New Things Happening in Fair PlayI've been thinking about last April's post I did, "Things are a Changing Here in Fair Play..." Then I mentioned several changes among the wineries, new to the Fair Play family. We have become good friends with all the new ones I mentioned and their wines are all fantastic. Now I want to explain what I meant at the end of that post.<br />
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My last line then was "Life is always changing and some of it for the good." Lets start with that, Palissandro Winery has been bought and the name changed to Mediterranean. They are part of a corporate structure named GoldLine Brands. When GoldLine came to Fair Play they also bought vineyards: Palissandro, Peter's Gate & his neighbor, Sierra Oaks, Latcham, a vineyard on Bucks Bar. There may be more I don't know about. GoldLine has four other brands: 1850 (Tasting room in Sutter Creek), Myka Cellars (started in Santa Cruz-just recently moved into El Dorado County & named after winemaker Mica Raas), GoldLine and Coast (an entry wine for those just learning about wines or those who like inexpensive wines from online) Mediterranean will look a lot different when they complete the patio and deck. It will be a first class place to enjoy wine and nibbles.<br />
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Single Leaf Winery is now closed. Scot Miller, winemaker & owner with his wife Pam, recently passed away from brain cancer. Pam is selling the property and has returned to live in Nevada, close to family. Speaking of changes, dkcellars has been bought by the Bumgarner family, renamed the winery to Bumgartner Winery, and has their tasting room open for business, Fri., Sat. & Sun. 11-5. The winery on Mt. Aukum Rd. has been bought and plans to be reopened under a new name sometime late spring or summer of this year. We wish them luck to open as planned. We know just a little about what is in store at the hilltop; new owners have been staying with us for years.<br />
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Gold Vine Grill is still making great burgers and calamari dishes. Though Greg lost his beloved Mary not long ago, he is staying true to their dream of being restaurateurs. Mary's warmth and leadership in many things around Fair Play, Future Chefs Cooking Competition, and the ROP will be remembered forever. She will be forever loved by all of us. Another loss, we just heard about our good friend and friend of many Fair Play folks, Rod Avery passed away last night (1/20/19). Many of you knew Rod from tasting rooms like Granite Springs, dkcellars and Iverson. His leadership of the Pleasant Valley Grange/Community Center will forever stand as a testament to his giving of himself. His good humor and smiling face will be sorely missed. <br />
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Cindy & I, here at Lucinda's Country Inn have written a couple Murder Mystery Weekend events. Then we knew it was time to do a third. We had talked about writing something to do with the Gold Country history, after all we live in the heart of that territory so it makes perfect sense to write about it. That is the other reason for Ancestry.com, to find some of my ancestors and to research the lives of the Gold Rush era. But what prompted me to write this post was meeting up with some folks at Windwalker Winery who had taken part in each of those two mystery weekend events. and we were with our friends who were part of our very first one we did at Lucinda's Country Inn. (That was our dry run where we got lots of feedback to make adjustments and lots of improvements.) So that got me thinking again about the subject at hand and I needed to write a new post.<br />
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Using Ancestry.com I have been able to write a lot for our third mystery. Ancestry.com has given me accurate timeline and linage for my family which I am using as the background and inspiration for our third Murder In Fair Play series.<br />
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I never fathomed this as a kid. At a large family gathering we kids had lots of cousins to play with and of course all my brothers. My parents and my aunts and uncles did aunt and uncle things and left us kids to do all those stupid kid things. Which we did from sun up to sun down. My mother's sister, Aunt Maude, and her family became probably the closest of all the family. Her two oldest, and being boys, helped take care of Mom's first born when he was just a toddler in the Oregon hills while the parents split cord wood to sell in Portland. Their first daughter lived with our family for a couple years when Peggy was a teenager. Sharon, the youngest and a year younger than me, and I have stayed in touch through the years, mostly letting each other know we lost another family member. Being from a large family, that means lots of deaths in the family over the years. You never think of anyone's death as a child, but now being a lot older and having lost all but one brother, Dave, I look at life a little differently nowdays. Family memories have become more precious. My thinking about family has been magnified with the passing of our son, Sean. I miss him more than I care think about. Yet, I think of him every day and I pray that we'll be together again.<br />
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Be it Allah, Buddha, Jehovah, God (Jesus Christ) or any other deity, all believe in some form of afterlife. Most people on Earth believe and pray they will get that eternal life. Many early philosophers, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates and more, became believers in the opposite of our physical body which must be the spiritual body or the human soul that can live eternally. We all celebrate our religious beginning this time of year. We Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. After Cindy & I made our river cruise to celebrate our 50th anniversary and we visited a chapel in Vicenza, Italy where a photo of the Shroud of Turin is placed at the alter, I became acutely aware of the fact Jesus Christ was indeed a real man before his resurrection. The image on the shroud is ingrained in the fiber of the cloth. True or not, fact or fiction, I can only tell you that as a Christian I was so moved by looking at that photograph I will always be a believer. Everyone has the right to their beliefs. I will not nor do I question anyone's faith. That faith is between them and their Lord God.<br />
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All this brings me to those pestering thoughts at this time of year. Family is the most cherished part of our lives this time of year. For many their family is diminishing faster than they care to think about. I'm part of that group, and I don't' stay in touch with many of my cousins so I don't know much about most of my extended family. That is why I try every chance I get to be with both sides of "The Pond', the Atlantic Ocean. Our Grandson, Steven, and his German family are a major part of Cindy and my lives. Our Stateside family, Shani (Opps, I had a Freudian slip. That is what we called my little girl when she was small), Johnny and my Angel, Hailey, are our focus everyday.We get together as often as we can.They are teachers and we run Lucinda's Country Inn, so that makes getting together not as easy as we'd like. A few hours here and there is good, bu not enough. This Christmas we will be together for an overnight visit and celebration, which makes my Christmas a great blessing.<br />
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I wish the best to everyone reading this a warm family and friends celebration. May you all be happy and cherish the few moments together, you will never have enough time together, so may each second be your best blessing.<br />
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The river Danube is beautiful. In a couple of spots it is almost a mile wide and at the Iron Gate Gorge it is just a little over one hundred fifty yards wide. It is blue in some places, especially looking off in the distance. To accommodate large barges transporting many types of goods up and down the river a dam was built that raised the water level about 100 feet in some areas. Yes, they had to move villages and farmers. Now the big barges and river cruise ships can transverse the entire Danube.<br />
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The start of our trip was in Budapest. We arrived in Buda and spent our first night at the fabulous Ritz Carlton (Thank you Marriott Rewards points.). It is in a large building converted from a communist government operation. They did a great job of converting a utilitarian building into this luxury establishment.<br />
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Three days (one day we stayed on the ship) out of five we had to travel by bus 1 1/2 hours one way and spend 2 hours (maybe) at the site to visit and then the return trip. I don't think the people who planned the excursions did their job very well, or there just isn't any place to visit right along the river. Even to visit Belgrade and Bucharest we had to travel by bus for a couple hours. Each bus trip had a tour guide who provided local history and explained what little there was to see along the way, mostly lots of agricultural stuff. The first two trips our tour guide ladies did a great great job.<br />
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The cruise line, which we traveled on in 2016 on the Rhine, was once again a real gem of an experience. Every single crew member was a perfect host, no matter what their duties were. They were friendly, very respectful and accommodating for any and all whims we had. I had my Ballantine Whiskey resupplied almost before I emptied the last short bottle. Cindy's Vermentino wine was replaced just as fast. We also got a little art work, Ralph waiting for us on our living room table after a day's outing.</div>
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Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-46194522973111177032018-06-16T12:23:00.000-07:002018-06-16T12:23:55.767-07:00My, How Things Have Changed - Part 2I've been thinking how do I tie the last post and this one together. Then I realized it does it all by itself.<br />
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The greatest challenge we have had has been using the Online Travel Agents (OTA's - Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com etc.). Our first foray into the wilderness of OTA's was trying to work in the world of Booking.com (Owned by Priceline). We got indoctrinated at a conference about the great things they would do for us and we'd reap all the money from all their work. Things didn't quite work that way. Every single reservation we got through Booking.com over four months was screwed up in one way or another. We terminated our relationship with ill feelings on both sides. We didn't use any OTA's for a few years.<br />
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BedandBreakfast.com (Owned by Homeaway, which is owned by Expedia) has a program for upscale B&B's, like us, called the Diamond Collection. They allowed only a few hundred places, out of thousands of members in their directory in the country to receive that distinction. They give the Diamond Collection members preferential placement in their directory and used them for publicity. The return on our investment has been good. In 2016 they offered their booking engine, Rezovation, for us to use in conjunction with the one we are using, Webervations - owned by the same company, Homeaway, for nothing if we agreed to having BedandBreakfast.com also take reservations for us. Let's see, a no cost booking engine, a free listing in their directory and they take reservations for us for only the cost of their commission on their BedandBreakfast.com reservations. I jumped on that, like a warm blanket on a baby. Our bookings increased immediately. Shortly after that they offered Expedia, Hotels.com and a whole host of the OTA's to work with us through BedandBreakfast.com for only the OTA's commission. That has proved to be one of the better decisions we've made. Our bookings come rolling in, and we don't pay any credit card processing fees, credit card charge backs, and if there is a cancellation at short notice, the OTA fights with the potential guest and we keep the cancellation fee. Yes there are small glitches somewhere, but the OTA's have been a godsend for us. The beauty is, like a young couple said, just today (6/1/18), they would never have found us without using Hotels.com.<br />
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Speaking of the OTA's, they all promise the public their prices are the lowest available anywhere. Some say you get a big discount by booking through them. Here's a dirty little secret, all of them play their word games to entice people to use them, but you are paying the same price that the business offers to the public. Here at Lucinda's Country Inn, our Vineyard Suite currently has a weekend rate of $185 a night, plus tax. That is what you pay using an OTA and we pay them a commission for using their services. We gladly pay that for people staying their first time. When the guests check out we give them their receipt that explains they need to use our website to make their next reservation. That way they earn their credits for the Friends of Lucinda's program and get a free night faster than if they keep using their OTA.<br />
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I became quite proficient at managing our website, at least I thought I was. At the PAII Conference in Las Vegas in 2010, a website design company owned by a husband and wife team that previously owned a B{&B for 12 years, had a booth at the trade show and each did a seminar. Lisa explained to me, after scrutinizing our website at one of her seminars, our website lacked the necessary SEO (Search Engine Optimization) needed for a high ranking result. What that means is all the technical stuff web designers use to make their websites always look good and get great Google search results. And if the website has good Google results it has good results on all the other search engines (Yahoo, Bing, Altavista, etc.). At the same conference were several "Booking Engine" companies - Booking.com, Expedia, and others I can't remember.<br />
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I started using Constant Contact several years ago for Lucinda's emails/newsletters. I've never believed a B&B should email their guest list as often as retail places. Those emails have become a great way for people on our email list to know what is going on around Lucinda's and what to expect in the future. Email is still the most used means for people to know what a business is doing. The most immediate and most talked about communications is Social Media. Facebook is something I really don't like but it is now a business necessity. If Facebook did not require a personal page in order to have a business page I personally would not be there. It is a great tool to share information in a hurry. When I post something on Facebook and you share my post with folks I'm not friends with and then they share and so on. That is an exponentially wider viewing audience than if I did everything alone. When I say I, I mean my page and Lucinda's page at the same time. Then there are the other social platforms for reaching out to people, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pintrest, You Tube, Snap Chat, and you are right, I have not named them all. I don't know all their names and don't come close to using a third of them. Actually, Facebook, Instagram and Pintrest are my limit, and I don't really use it often enough. If I were to use social media the way the B&B industry social media experts expect, I'd be doing social media most of the time. I don't have time to do the reservations and confirmations, etc, our Constant Contact, work around the B&B when Cindy asks me, stay on top of the emails and post things to Facebook, LinkedIn, Pintrest, and Instagram. My head is spinning just writing that sentence.<br />
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From that little spiral notebook to being overwhelmed in Social Media. Who would have thunk a B&B Innkeeper would have to be a computer whiz to stay in business. When we started Lucinda's Country Inn, I knew websites and email were needed, but nothing like what is thrust upon us now. What does the future hold, AI, Virtual Reality, Holographic Imagery or some other "wonderful" extension of someone's imagination.<br />
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....'Til Next Time<br />
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Daryl<br />
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<br />Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-24522175639698552162018-06-10T09:29:00.000-07:002018-06-10T09:29:18.189-07:00My, How Things Have Changed - Part 1I've been thinking about how people find us, not how to get here, but how did and do they know about us, so they can make a reservation.<br />
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In 2004 Cindy & I carried a little spiral notebook to take our reservations. We had a landline for our telephone and when we were out and about we used call forwarding to our Blackberry cell phone; as there was little reception in and around the foothills, but it was better than nothing. People heard about Lucinda's Country Inn from the Rack Cards we left at every winery who would let us, the Chamber of Commerce, and by driving by our cheap sign we had in the beginning. The public used Travel Guides to find lodging - AAA travel books and many others like Fodor, Frommer and the Lannier Guides strictly about B&B's. You had to go to the libraries or AAA to get them. Maybe that's why we didn't need anything but our little blue note book; not many guests were coming to Lucinda's Country Inn the first couple of years. We heard about the B&B group in El Dorado County called the Historic Country Inns of El Dorado County. They had a brochure and a website listing all the members. We knew we had to join to get those benefits. Our only problem was we built Lucinda's and it had no significant historic value, other than being the first <i style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">new</span> </i>B&B built in the county. That was historic enough for the group to change its name to Bed & Breakfast Inns of El Dorado County (BBIEDC), just so we could join. (More about that in another post, someday.)<br />
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When we went to our first PAII (Professional Association of International Innkeepers) Conference in Chicago in 2004, just months before we opened Lucinda's Country Inn, there were two really hot topics in the seminars and at the trade show. At the trade show there were about a dozen vendors hawking the latest technology for the B&B owners to incorporate into their business. (Super Inn, Q4, Blizzard Technology, AT&T, Cellular Mobile, Verizon, to name a few. More about technology later.) The first was communications: telephones that were cordless so we could walk around the B&B and talk to our callers at the same time. Then the finest in cellular phones. The second, for those who had guts enough to get involved in computers was this thing called the internet. Hardly any B&B owner would ever dare turn over any information about their B&B guests to the "Internet" - that sacrilegious, spying apparatus. At several seminars the speakers were touting the best means of keeping in touch - "Call Forwarding". We laughed because we had used it for years. But most B&B's hadn't and if they did, where would they forward the calls to. They didn't have cell phones.<br />
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Our son, Sean, and I spent many hours discussing the ways to get involved with websites. I din't know how to set one up, but I knew a lot about what they provided. The California Franchise Tax Board used their website both internally (intranet) and for the public (internet), while I worked there. (In 1996, Governor Pete Wilson ordered all state agencies to become internet friendly, for public use.) I never worked on the IT side, so I never got the beginnings of what the Internet was, let alone how to set up and work with websites on the internet. I had a desktop PC here at Lucinda's which I used primarily for word processing for our snail mail confirmations and for emails (Prodigy & AOL were the only options). I searched hundreds of websites for instructions on how to setup websites. Those vendors at the trade show wanted to setup, maintain and manage all aspects of any website they set up for us. Of course that would cost hundreds per month, which was a luxury Lucinda's could only dream about in 2004.<br />
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Sometime in 2005 I started gathering the email addresses of our reservations so I could send them their confirmation via email. It was a long letter detailing everything known to man and Lucinda's Country Inn. I wasn't very astute about the hospitality communications needed, so there were months of cumbersome letters and follow-up letters; where I was answering questions that I made people ask as a result of them reading their confirmation letter, "clearly explaining every detail they ever needed". I finally developed a format of a confirmation letter; it was just as bad as the letters, but it sped things up getting the confirmations out. Over the years that has improved drastically. The confirmation process on both ends works very comfortably now. It probably could still use more improvement. We are still amazed at the number of people who never read their confirmations, let alone bring them so they would know where to park and find there room.<br />
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During that year we joined BBIEDC because that helped us get Lucinda's Country Inn out to the public way beyond what we were doing by ourselves, which wasn't much. I think subconsciously I really did believe in the "Field of Dreams". <b><i>We built it, but they weren't coming.</i></b> We clearly needed a website of our own. I found Register.com that allowed, and even helped, me build our own website. It was functional, but not very attractive. Since I am a fairly decent photographer we started taking pictures for the website, but that was cumbersome and not very efficient. I didn't have a digital camera at that time so I had to scan the photos then uploaded them to our storage files, then transfer them to the website. After I got the digital camera all hell broke loose and technology exploded on the internet. Things began to change at rocket speed. Which meant I was able to go directly from the camera's flash card to the website. Our website improved drastically. It was looking good, but not much action from it. Google became the giant gorilla of search engines and dictated how websites were discovered when the public did a search for a B&B in El Dorado County. I learned about the front links, back links and secondary back links that helped get us higher in the organic search results. If this sounds gibberish to you. You're not alone. It took me years to understand the basics of Google's search engine results.<br />
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Of course we had our rack cards we placed in the Chamber of Commerce and the all the winerieries in El Dorado County including the eight here in Fair Play.<br />
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Today things are light years different then when I felt like I was getting a handle on our website in 2007. I expanded, enhanced, glorified and modernized the website almost weekly. One component of search results remains the same today, new content gets you higher in the results. The big gorilla keeps changes their logarithms for searching the "net". That means about the time I get to know what is happening there's something different I have to know. After being a member of BBIEDC for a few years we were at one of the monthly meetings when it was explained that there was a company named Webervations that had members of the group setup the Webervations booking engine, it cost about $100 a year. That meant we could now have people make reservations through our website. Yes they could still call, but if they were on the website they could book the room they wanted (thanks to all the great photos I took) without having to call us.<br />
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(There's more about the technological advances topic in the next post.)<br />
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....'Til Next Time<br />
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Daryl<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ve been thinking about what should be the next day
trip <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– Ala; the North-South Rd. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
drive is easy and beautiful. My job here is to tell you how to get there, not
what to see and do while enjoying the drive. I don’t want to spoil it for you.
It is up the mountain a little (in the winter & spring it can and probably is not passable) and there is really nothing but forest vistas to
look at. That ain’t bad. Its about a two-hour drive, unless you stop to hike
some of the forest service roads. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They named it North-South Rd.because it runs North and South between Mormon Emigrant Trail, on the north, and </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Omo Ranch Rd. on the south.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> The top photo is taken along Omo Ranch Rd. looking southeast over the valley towards Highway 88 and Jackson, down the hill. The bottom photo is the start of the North-South Rd., to the left of the pine tree, on Omo Ranch Rd. looking north to Highway 50 and Lake Tahoe to the right. </span></div>
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Ranch at Indian Diggins School and just before the road narrows to a single
lane for about ¼ mile. Continue up Omo Ranch Rd., leaving El Dorado National
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> The top photos is just to let you know you are headed in the right direction when you see this sign. The bottom photos lets you know North-South Rd. is just ahead on the left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This road is a great road and you can literally coast most of the way down the hill to Sly Park Rd. at <a href="http://www.jenkinsonlake.com/" target="_blank">Jenkinson Lake</a>. At the lake there are bunches and bunches of trails for hiking.</span></div>
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Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-416679551310426722018-04-07T10:58:00.000-07:002018-04-07T10:58:04.488-07:00Things Are Changing Here In Fair Play - Wine Country TODAY !I've been thinking: it has been awhile since I last updated things about Fair Play. I just looked in the blog archive and it was in 2014 that I wrote 3 posts about the Fair Play Wine history. Now things are different in three ways: here's the highlights.<br />
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The first being beautiful wineries have opened.<a href="https://www.sentivovineyards.com/" target="_blank"> Sentivo Vineyards & Winery</a> opened two summers ago (2016) at 7460 Fair Play Rd.; right across the street from Mastroserio Winery. Their grounds are arranged into outdoor "rooms", or sitting areas in different spots outside the tasting room.<br />
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The tasting room is majestic and modern. The large room envelopes you with warmth and the comfort of home. Their vines were planted years ago so Sentivo did not have to wait for the vines to produce grapes and catch up to the tasting room, they did it the other way around. The vines & grapes have been waiting for the tasting room. It's a family operation and the winemaker is their neighbor. The vines for both Sentivo and their winemaker share the same hills in Fair Play.<br />
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<a href="https://www.e16winery.com/" target="_blank">E16</a> is in the old Winery By The Creek spot (corner of Perry Creek Rd. & Fair Play Rd. - just past the Pub at Fair Play); which moved to the Charles B. Mitchell property. Firefall is the original E16. Their vineyard is up Grizzly Flat and E16 uses the Zinfandel and Syrah grapes from there. Firefall closed the tasting room on Mt. Aukum Rd. several years ago, because they had young children and Robert and his wife both had other jobs and doing the vineyard, winery and tasting room: well it was a little much while raising two small children. Robert is back with E16; named in honor of his start in the wine business. Today he uses the Firefall grapes, but has his Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays produced in the Alexander Valley and Russian River Valley areas. The Pinot Noir grape requires a completely different terroir than the Fair Play Appellation offers.<br />
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E16 Salon Tasting Room is quiet for a great wine experience of a lifetime.<br />
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If you ever visited the other winery that was in this location, well you'll not believe your eyes. Robert, Robin and Mick have transformed it into a spectacular venue to enjoy great wine and great company. Mick has been in and out of Fair Play for over 25 years. When we visited E16 the first time he was standing at the end of the bar and pointed at us as we pointed at him and we all said "I know you". Mick was the manager at 7-UP Ranch B&B many years ago when Cindy & I traveled from SoCal while looking to buy property and we stayed there many a night. The right folks are in E16 for you to taste great wines and kibitz with great people.</div>
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Right next to Sentivo Winery is another gem that was transformed from the rough into a great, beautiful tasting room, <a href="http://www.element79vineyards.com/" target="_blank">Element 79</a>. They are right across the street from MV. The new (been open about two months) tasting room is currently the only one that lets you be in the vineyards with just a very short and easy walk from the patio/deck. The tasting room decor is an exquisite mix of rustic and modern. The ambiance for enjoying the flights of wine tastings make you comfortable and relaxed.</div>
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Cindy and I have been there a few times already and fell in love with it on our first visit. Their wines are quite delicious. One could easily go overboard when sitting on the deck with a couple flights of their tasteings, followed with a bottle of one of those just sampled. We know!! </div>
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The second being; one of the wineries that had tastings by appointment only, Peter's Gate, has been sold. It was bought by a corporate structure that will use the grapes from Peter's Gate for the juice only. This conglomerate has bought or leased several pieces of property in and around Fair Play. None of us Fair Play folk, who normally think we are in the know, have a real clue as to what will happen with that enterprise. They bought the old Sierra Oaks Vineyards. Reality is we still don't know. Our rumor mill here in Fair Play, grinds out stories about what to expect from the conglomerate on a weekly basis, all proven to be false so far.<br />
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A sad thing is a the third point ; dkcellars and Palissandro are no longer in business. The good news is the dkcellars property has been sold and Palissandro has been sold - a new winery and tasting room will be going in there sometime "soon".. Sad that we don't have our friends close by anymore. There will be other changes here Fair Play in the coming months and years. The vast majority of the wineries and businesses have been doing "Their Thing" for 15 -25 years and they started "Their Thing" when they were in their late 40's and early 50's. That means some, or many, will sell and retire to "real retirement". I just want you to know about what's on the horizon. Life is always changing and some of it for the good.<br />
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DarylDaryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-67081133124876118062017-10-28T13:46:00.000-07:002017-10-28T13:46:22.306-07:00Day Trips From Lucinda's - Indian Grinding RockI've been thinking what is the next day trip: Ala - <a href="http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=553" target="_blank">Indian Grinding Rock</a>. The Central Sierra Miwok Indians used this area just outside Jackson for thousands of years to gather acorns and grind them into their food. This day trip guide is not intended to provide details about the life and times of the Indians and their environs, it is to help you find your way to and from without getting lost for more than a few minutes.<br />
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This little adventure can be combined with a trip to Volcano and Black Chasm Cavern, if you want to spend the entire day. Use the directions to find Volcano is the best way to get there. Once inside Volcano take the street heading towards the town of Pine Grove. There are signs pointing you to the Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park (there is an admission envelope to use).<br />
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If you are on Highway 88, from either direction, there are clearly marked signs that let you know the turn is just ahead. Once you turn onto the Pine Grove-Volcano Rd. you go directly to the park.<br />
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Spend some time in the Ranger Station / Museum for some fun filled facts.</div>
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Once you are back outside there are bunches of things to see and do. The Round House, Teepee and of course just strolling the grounds.</div>
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From here the park has many things to see and do.</div>
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Of course there is the biggest grinding rock in North America.</div>
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This close up, of one of the 1,185 holes, is a good look at what you'll find.</div>
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<br />Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-27272690500026425892017-04-02T12:01:00.000-07:002017-04-02T12:01:42.204-07:00What's in Fair Play - Gold Rush History # 2<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I was thinking about what to write for this post. I’m
not sure why, but I reviewed the 2014 posts when I came across the Gold Rush
History # 1. I concluded there must be more Gold Rush history in Fair Play than
just one short essay about the Gold Rush. In my 2014 post I provided a pretty
detailed history of Fair Play and the environs. So today I will expand upon
that post with some information about other aspects of the Gold Rush time around Fair Play and some recent history most of you don’t know.</div>
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Let’s start with how and why there is a Fair Play.
Obviously, many 49ers came from around the world to find their riches in gold.
Some, very few, found the riches of their dreams; most went home broke and
broken. Some stayed behind because they were smart enough to find
their riches in other ways. That’s what started Fair Play. Fair Play became an important
mercantile center for this region of the foothills, selling everything from
wheel barrows made by Studebaker in Placerville to becoming the distribution
center for the lumber from Indian Diggings - now known as Omo Ranch.</div>
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The center part of the building is the old original part.<br />
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At one point about 1860 Fair Play had a population around
10,00 with a hotel, many saloons, a general store and other shops and services
for the 49res. The general store still stands today and the <a href="http://www.thepubatfairplay.com/" target="_blank">Pub at Fair Play</a> is
the current occupant. Across the street is the hardware store that recently ceased
operation, but operated as one from about 1870. The <a href="http://www.e16wines.com/" target="_blank">E16 Winery Tasting room</a>,
the old Winery by the Creek tasting room, was the first firehouse in Fair Play.
At the top of the hill at the entrance to the Iverson Winery was the location
of the hotel. I have copies of old photographs from the Fair Play early
days.</div>
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This Fair Play Hardware building hasn't changed mush since it was built, and the paint job shows it.</div>
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You history buffs know the Pony Express riders came right
through this section of the foothills on their way to Sacramento in 1860 & 61. To
this day there is a <a href="http://www.xphomestation.com/" target="_blank">Pony Express Ride reenactment</a> all the way from St Joseph,
Missouri to Sacramento.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another
interesting and fun thing to do and watch is the <a href="http://www.hwy50wagontrain.com/" target="_blank">Highway 50 Wagon Train Association’s</a> June wagon train trip from Zephyr Cove, NV to Placerville on Highway 50 – the
route of many wagon trains during the 1860’s to the 1880’s. Cindy and I did a
day ride on the wagon train in 2010. Great fun; it’s fun to watch all the
vehicles going by with eyes and mouths wide open taking picture of the wagon
train. Yep we had to wear wagon train grab like the pioneers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Cindy & I sat in the back wagon on the wooden bench; just like the pioneers did.</div>
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We’ve been asked many times about how Fair Play got its name.
See the post of February 10, 2014 for the detailed story of naming Fair Play. Somehow
the name stuck. I only mention this because through the
years the name has been a great source of discussion. At one point, right after
the people starting calling the town Fair Play the name was two words. Later it
became one word – Fairplay. The main road into Fairplay is spelled that way. A
few years ago, the businesses in Fairplay started a marketing group called Discover
Fair Play, which later became <a href="http://www.fairplaycalifornia.com/">Fairplay
California</a>. At that time the spelling of Fair Play became a hot topic. Fair
Play as two words means something different than Fairplay. As two words, it
means a destination and as one word it is only a name. Those of us in Fair Play
who want it to be a destination use the two words – <a href="http://www.lucindascountryinn.com/" target="_blank">Lucinda’s Country Inn</a> in
Fair Play, CA 95684.<br />
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When we bought our property there was an old "miners cabin" that was in
shambles. The wood was obviously very old and dark like a lot of the old
Gold Rush period building we are familiar with. We also were familiar
with the stories about the 49ers and their properties and events. The
legends if you will, about how deep and rich the history is of the Gold
Rush era in the nooks and crannies of the Foothills. Almost any old
building has a Gold Rush story to go with it. Yes, some buildings around
Fair Play on people's property are in fact Gold Rush era, I just
couldn't find any truth about our shack. It went out along with the the
other rubbish that had "accumulated" over the years of no one living on
the property.<br />
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There is a dam from the late 1800's or very early 1900's,
that the historian inspector of our property
found, in Perry Creek at the beginning of the crevasse in the granite
out cropping at the end of the trail down to the creek. There are four
all thread studs about 1 1/2" long sticking out of the top of the dam.
Story goes, people used to use long rods to hold wood planks in place to
back up the water so the pond would fill with gravel and silt. They'd
then remove the wood and pan for gold. Apparently some people did find
some because they continued to use the dam until after the Great
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A few factoids about Fair Play, CA 95684: I start this sentence
this way because there was a post office in Fair Play in the old hotel and then
general store from 1860 until 1944. It then moved to the Somerset Post Office
because more residents were in Somerset than Fair Play. Today both communities
use the same Post Office and therefore the same zip code. (For Lucinda’s I had
to fight tooth and nail to have Fair Play as our address on most internet
activities. Their computers recognize Somerset instead of Fair Play. I had to
go into the post office website to get a copy of the two communities using the
same zip code so all those websites will recognize Fair Play.) In Fair Play we
are at about an average of 2,300 elevation, with some wineries at 2,000 and a
few at right about 2,600. Yep, we do get snow sometimes. It mostly melts in a
few hours, but about every ten years we get a doosy, about 2-3 feet. That
creates havoc. If we get roads plowed it is long after everywhere else. Our
summer temperatures are at least 10 to 15 degrees cooler than the valley. So here in
Fair Play we like to say <i><b>we are above the fog, below the snow and a world apart,
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Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-41240851913956314662016-09-26T11:47:00.000-07:002016-09-26T11:47:53.648-07:00Day trips from Lucinda's - Volcano<div style="text-align: left;">
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wonderful excursion for a day will be a venture to Volcano in Amador County.
There are several ways to get there and any of those take about 1 to 1 ½ hours
of beautiful back country roads. When you get to Volcano you’ll see some neat
historical things from the Gold Rush era. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sharing four ways to get to Volcano, each
with its own unique drives. Throughout your directions are some photos to
excite you about you day trip. HAVE FUN !! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Once you get to Volcano be sure to find the "Volcano - Gem of the Motherlode - Walking Tour Map" at the General store or almost anywhere if you ask for one, or they will tell you where one is. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The longest is going up Omo Ranch Rd. to
Highway 88 (Carson Pass Highway & the first scenic highway in the United
States). Getting to Omo Ranch you have two choices:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a) Perry Creek Rd. to Slug Gulch Rd to Omo
Ranch Rd. or b) Fair Play Rd. to Omo Ranch Rd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once on Omo Ranch from Fair Play it is about 11 miles to Hwy 88. Then
turn right toward Jackson (West) and go down to Shake Ridge Rd., turn right &
go to Daffodil Hill. Shake Ridge Rd. turns right, but you need to go straight
onto Ram’s Horn Grade into Volcano. On the edge of Volcano the road changes
names to Consolation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You drive by the
Volcano Union Inn: a great spot for a lunch on their patio.</span></div>
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Volcano Union Inn - Great place to stay and for a summer lunch on the patio.<br />
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you like, you can take Shake Ridge Rd past Ram’s Horn Grade down to Charleston
Rd. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span>(about 3 miles), turn left
and go into Volcano from another direction.</span></div>
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most direct way is to take Fair Play Rd. to Mt. Aukum and follow Mt. Aukum past
Sobon Winery and turn left onto Ostrom Rd. and over the hill into Fiddletown.
At the stop sign turn left; then veer right and go to the stop sign. Turn left onto
Fiddletown Rd. to Hale Rd. (about 2 miles) and turn right onto Hale Rd. to
Shake Ridge Rd and turn left. About ½ -1 mile turn right onto Charleston Rd and
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longer drive into Fiddletown from Mt. Aukum Rd. take Cedar Creek Rd. (just past
the Mt. Aukum Store & at the corner where the Post Office is – a left turn).
About ¾ of a mile turn right onto Bridgeport School Rd. Turn right onto Tyler
Rd. which goes into Fiddletown and turn left at the stop sign. An option is to take Lawrence Rd. which takes you to Tyler Rd. and then into Fiddletown. Then follow the
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a longer day and more shopping stay on Highway 49 and use the bypass to go to
Jackson. When you’re done doing whatever it is you do in Jackson take Highway
88 east out of Jackson. About 10 miles up the hill is Pioneer. Just outside the
other side of Pioneer is a small road, Pioneer Volcano Rd. takes you
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cedar Creek Ranch & Winery</span></div>
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I usually don’t write about an individual winery in this
blog. This exception is Cedar Creek Ranch & Winery. Last weekend (6/4/16)
Karen & Ginger had their annual release party for their 925 cases of wine.
That’s right only 925 cases total. Each varietal, Viognier, Sangiovese, Syrah,
Petite Syrah and Ranch Reserve spent 18 months in the barrel, then more time in
the bottle before being opened for the public to enjoy. This boutique winery
and vineyard is tucked into the gentle sloping hills at the edge of El Dorado
and Amador Counties at 2,300 feet elevation.</div>
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The property is gorgeous and the vineyards are manicured, as
if the vine canes were ladies finger nails. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You meander along a quaint back country road
for what seems like forever, then around one of the many curves appears the
long drive up to the vineyards and the their home. Behind the home is a
sprawling pond encircled with a ribbon of green grass amidst the golden
grasses.</div>
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Right out the back of
the house just under the brick patio.</div>
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I have been a big fan of the winery even before it actually
became a winery. I got to know Karen Wood a few years ago, shortly after
Lucinda’s opened. Karen was on one of her many fact finding missions by visiting and
interviewing all those who knew anything about vines, vineyards, wines,
wineries and even just gardening. She is a country girl by nature, so she felt
right at home planting the vineyard. It took awhile but after her vines were in
and beginning to thrive she became associated with one of the better
winemaker/consultants in the area. She was a sponge, soaking up every bit of
information Marco Cappelli provided. Quickly she flexed her wine making wings
and became her own wine maker. Marco did observe and advise for a couple years,
but now Karen Wood has become an excellent wine maker in her own right. All her wines are to die for. Great full bodied and the balance that makes good wine great.</div>
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The reason I write this now is two fold; first, it is always
gratifying to see and in a minuscule way be part of someone’s dream come to
fruition and second, if you ever get to their annual release party you
better attend. It is one of the best release parties in any wine region,
anywhere. Ginger and Karen do it all first class and with love and goodness thrown in for good blessings.</div>
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You can only see this wine label one of three ways. 1) You
order a bottle or a case (why not two?) <a href="http://www.cedarcreekranchwinery.com/">online</a>; 2) a friend shares
some with you or 3) you attend the annual release party. Well, maybe a few
places in Plymouth: Taste Restaurant (rated one of the top 50 in the US by Open Table), Vintage
Market and Amador 360.</div>
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My lovely bride of 50
years is not napping, but she is eyeing that glass of Viognier.</div>
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<a href="http://www.cedarcreekranchwinery.com/">Cedar Creek
Ranch & Winery</a> website gives you all the necessary information you need
to have the history of the old gold mining property, how to order wine and, when
you attend the Annual Release Party, directions. </div>
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I was thinking if you don't want to taste wine all day what can you do?
Well, in the next few posts I'll share some ideas about some quick and easy
day/half day trips around Lucinda's.<br />
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The first trip is an adventure into Amador County just outside of Jackson.
It is Electra.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "inherit","serif";">While staying here at Lucinda’s you might venture into some foothill
history. There used to be a town in the foothills named Electra. That is the
site of one of PG&E’s first Hydro-Electric plants in the foothills. It was
built sometime around 1900. Today it is still operating, but at a much lower
level than ever before. PG&E has a maintenance crew work on the old
turbines every few months. There is no town but there is some great history and
beauty.</span><br />
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old turbines across the Mokelumne River are still operating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit","serif";">To find this spot you go south
through Jackson and just before, I mean right at, the bridge crossing the <b>Mokelumne
River turn left onto Electra Rd.</b> The road meanders along the river a few
miles until you get to the Electra parking area. There are some exciting views
along the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "inherit","serif";">Lucinda
“Cindy” is in the Electra parking area when we made our trip there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit","serif";">The trip, one way—without any
stops, takes about one hour. You probably will want to buy one of our picnic
boxes (You need to order it before you arrive at Lucinda's) or grab some snack stuff at one of the stores in Jackson. You’ll want to
“stop and smell the roses”, so to speak, and enjoy yourself and relax a little
while in Electra. If you go on a warm/hot day be sure to take your swimming
gear, whatever that might be. Usually there is no one else around, if that
gives you a hint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "inherit","serif";">Cindy
is sitting next to the Electra swimming hole, which is a short walk from the
parking area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "inherit","serif";">One final point about Electra is
the huge pipe that runs perpendicular to the river up a hill and appears to go
over to the other side to something. We didn’t export that. The hill gets
pretty steep, so it would be a good climb to find out where the pipe goes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "inherit","serif";">Enjoy your outing. Along the way
is Sutter Creek, Amador City and Dry Town, each has cute shops and eateries. <span style="color: purple;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Make it a great day in the Sierra Gold Country Foothills.</i></b></span></span><br />
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Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-48234262832295176662015-05-29T12:25:00.002-07:002015-05-29T12:25:29.561-07:00Bicycling Across AmericaI was thinking that since we started Lucinda's Country Inn in September 2004, we have had the pleasure of having several cyclists stay at the Inn. All those staying with us have been going west to east. These latest guys are following the Western Express Trail that meets with the TransAmerica Trail in Pueblo, Colorado. The Adventure Cycling Association (ACA) maps show them the way. (We are now listed in the ACA maps as an excellent place to stop overnight or make a day stop to rest before the hard journey over Carson Pass at 8,500 feet about 35 miles up the hill.) Starting in San Francisco May 25th this latest trio will finish in Yorktown, Virgina, a distance of approximately 3,800 miles ending sometime in late August. This trio, Frank Garber, Robert Birgance, and Gus DeSilva, met each for the purpose of making this trip. Frank and Gus met a couple times over the past year to discuss some details of the trip and had video conferences with Robert. All three met face to face the first time in SF for the "Dip of the Wheel", a ritual cyclists do to start their coast to coast journey. They gather at the Pacific Ocean so they can officially start their adventure.<br />
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This is from Frank's blog. I forgot, like an idiot, to take a pic before they rode up the hill.</div>
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If you want to follow their trip, via each one's blog, you just have to<a href="http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=tS&doctype=journal" target="_blank"> click here</a> .</div>
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A brief bio of each is appropriate as all are retired and they are the oldest cyclists we have had stay with us. I admire their drive and enthusiasm for their journey. Robert has been officiating high school lacrosse and had the privilege to travel to Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Basel, Switzerland to do just that. He has been training for his coast to coast effort for over a year. Gus now lives in Concord, North Carolina, being a transplant from NYC. There he rode in the Five Burroughs Ride in 2012. That is a trip through all of NYC along with 35,000 other riders and thousand of residents cheering them on. Frank was a runner most of his adult life until 2007 when knee surgery sidelined him. He started biking and now is an avid rider in many trips with groups along the east coast. He lives in Potomac Falls, Va, close to DC. The three met through the ACA communication network and partnered to make this trip.</div>
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Not long ago we had a solo rider doing the west to east trip, he was from Norway. A father son team ventured this way on their way to Pennsylvania, raising money for the preacher father's church school. They were on the trip to raise $100,000. Their trip had some bumps; the son became dehydrated going up highway 88 and had the support car take them back to Vallejo for a few days. Then they returned to their last spot and continued all the way. Dad lost about 50 pounds. Good for him, because he and I talked and compared our zippers; our heat by-pass scars. I just need to join him in losing 50.</div>
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We had two young whipper snappers ride into Fair Play on their long bike trek across America to make it to Utah then calling their cross country trip a western leg, with the Midwest and eastern legs to come in future years. It's always fun to talk to the riders and find out why they are doing what they are doing. I also yearn to see America up close and personal. I will just use my car.</div>
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"Til Next Time...</div>
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Daryl</div>
Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-56158623230233699762015-05-21T13:23:00.000-07:002015-05-21T13:23:18.097-07:00Life in Fair PlayI was thinking that most people who come to Fair Play come to enjoy the wineries and not watch the skunks cross the road. We do have our share of road kill that the buzzards like to gnaw on while we drive by. Some of the road kill are squirrels (I call them Rocky, after Rocky & Bulwinkle.) The other wildlife is more attractive than the buzzards and less of a hassle to live with. At times though almost all of them become road kill by being ran over or like the deer (Bambi) prancing out to collide with our cars before we even have a chance to see what hit us. If those skunks I mentioned earlier don't make it across the road we have our favorite fragrance for hours - that's why I call them "Flower", just like Bambi's friend. Once in a while a "Wabbit" (as Elmer Fudd says) just didn't quite make it around the curve far enough to get free. "Thumper" (Bambi's friend) gets thumped by one of the high rise, big wheel pickem'-ups. That is Life in Fair Play when all those visitors have gone home. Life in Fair Play is quiet and we must come up with our own amusement. One of my amusing things is to count and name road kill.<br />
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View from Skinner Winery's upper deck looking across the Fair Play Valley</div>
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Seriously, the reason we call Fair Play home, not just Cindy & I but all the other folks in Fair Play, is the beauty and tranquility. Some of the homes and wineries are situated on hills so they get the great panoramic views. Most of our homes are located in the nooks and crevices of the hills. We can watch mother nature up close and personal. Sometimes it gets real personal when a critter wants to make it's home under a deck, in a planter box or almost wherever there is a little hiding spot to build its home. Deer love to be under our rear deck. Last year in our east culvert, the opening is just outside the dining room window, a fox had his family housed in that culvert. This spring a skunk does. Of course birds have nested everywhere, even directly over one of our favorite sitting spots. That pretty much covers the animal life.<br />
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Oops! Speaking of wildlife, our not so wild "lioness" Daisey stays outdoors most of the time. We see her stalking her prey, be it birds, gopher/vols and her favorite is baby turkey. When she gets too close momma turkey gets Daisey out of the way in a hurry. When she thinks she sees or smells something she assumes THE position, ready to pounce for the kill. She gets small birds and vols regularly, as we get up in the morning we usually find Daisey's gift on the door mat. Recently she stalked the culvert only to find a different smell - skunk. She sprinted up her tree to hide.<br />
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Now for more of the human side of Life in Fair Play. If we aren't out visiting our winery friends in their tasting rooms or meeting others for lunch on a deck/patio or at Katie's Country Cafe or Gold Vine Grill, you can find Cindy and I having our lunch on our back deck or at the dining room window with the shades open. Just looking into the trees to enjoy the quiet solitude is exquisite. But when that sound of silence is broken by the rustling of the cedar trees, pine needles and oak leaves swooshing to announce the impending breeze that just moments later wisps across our faces; ah, that is the sound of nature in its fullest glory and is the real Life in Fair Play. Other adult things the people in the area do is gather for the infrequent meetings of SWAP. That is when about 20-50 people gather at the nearby Pizza Factory to have the Somerset Wine And Pizza (SWAP). All of us who attend are known as SWAPPERS because we partake in the SWAP, an evening of pizza & wine, mixed with fun and laughter. The emails that slam around, and the FB posts, after one of the gathering is hilarious, though they are not fit for printing in this blog. Some of those same humans beings are an active part of The Greater Fair Play Petanque Association. There are several petanque courts in the area so we move locations to have late afternoon matches to enjoy the cool summer evenings. Cindy & I have the only perfect record in the GFPA, a perfect goose egg for wins. All in all the folks in Fair Play and the neighboring areas are greatly diverse in age, former lives, orientation and marriage. Getting together to share fun, food, wine and gossip IS the Life in Fair Play.<br />
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'Til Next Time....<br />
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<br />Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-43847823681897454992015-02-14T13:01:00.000-08:002015-02-14T13:01:28.742-08:00Arriving in Fair Play is an AdventureI was thinking about how our guests get here to Lucinda's Country Inn. Like most places people visit they travel the highways and byways until they get somewhere. Or when folks travel by train they zip through previously unseen countryside until the train slows in order to arrive at the worlds biggest and most beautiful cities. When flying to those same cities the passengers don't have a clue about what lies below them. As trains are slowing to enter those famous cities they jerk and bump along the tracks past some of the most god awful places to look at: wrecking yards, empty dilapidated warehouses with graffiti everywhere, slums filled with snotty nosed kids playing in the streets, cardboard houses, piles of rubbish - some of it human excrement - and lots and lots of other unpleasant sites. What seems like forever is suddenly broken by the train station coming into view. Thank god that part of the train ride is over, is what most travelers say to themselves with their sighs of relief.<br />
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That brings us to you getting here to Fair Play. Driving from Nevada you lucky folks get to see the most beautiful site in the world; Lake Tahoe. Those drivers from the Bay Area get to drive through the largest valley and agricultural region in the US, California's Central Valley; which extends from Redding in the north to the Grapevine in the south. Here they grow almost every kind of produce and most of the world's supply of what they do grow.<br />
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Once you get closer to Fair Play you can't help but see some of those kinds of things I mentioned above. When we started Lucinda's Country Inn county approval process we met with our County Supervisor. I asked her if we had to follow the County Ordinance and she replied, of course. Then I asked if it is required that we have 6-8 cars and lots of farm implements on our property. Of course not was her reply. Then why do so many properties have that at the side of their road? I inquired. She replied, with a chuckle, that just happens and she explained that those are called "Car Gardens".Those "car gardens" appear unfortunately on the roads to get to Lucinda's.<br />
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One such "garden" is at the corner of Fair Play Rd. & Perry Creek Rd. at Pioneer Park.<br />
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When you turn on Perry Creek Rd. and slow down you can catch the complete essence of what a wonderful job this place has done in creating their "car garden". It has taken years for them to make it look this nice. A lot of people spoke to them about the junk and made snide remarks and they have gotten a million dirty looks from neighbors. The Country Authorities cannot do anything unless there is a health hazard or a toxic waste problem. So we get this beautiful "car garden".<br />
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El Dorado County is a "Right to Farm" county. That means in the Agricultural Districts farming has top priority over any other activities. If you want to build a new home next to a farming operation your home has to have at least a 200 foot set back. It also means farm equipment can be parked, kept, stored or however you want to describe it anywhere on the property. Since most land is devoted to farming that means the areas along the roads are used for storage of farm equipment and whatever else the farmer wants to put there. <br />
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Now there is mainly farm equipment here, along Perry Creek Rd., about 1/4 mile from the corner across from Pioneer Park. Ever since the owner has listed the property he has had his laborers clean the place, including a big dilapidated, dirty sign for Noah's Ark. And this guy went to one of our county hearings and complained about how bad our art & crafts house would look from Perry Creek Rd. UGH??</div>
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Wonderful part about your journey to Fair Play is when you arrive you can enjoy all the great wineriers and of course, Lucinda's Country Inn. Just some loving thoughts on Valentine's Day.</div>
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Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-12557427187891644792014-11-30T09:26:00.000-08:002014-11-30T09:26:16.601-08:00International Gatherings at Lucinda'sI was thinking where do all our guests come from after I read a recent post on a Linkedin forum I belong to that said they get folks from all over the world. The first post to the forum said they are hosting people from Germany in their Dutch B&B. That prompted others to reply with some of their visitors' place of origin: France, Spain, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, Poland, to name just a very few. Well, Lucinda and I have known for some time we get visitors from around the world; so to prove that to myself, I spent a little time reviewing our computer's guest data base and sure enough we have had people stay with us from: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Poland, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Canada, Taiwan, England, Ireland and a few other places that we don't have complete information in our data base.<br />
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One of the Murder in Fair Play events with the party goers at the height of fun. One of the mystery players is from London.</div>
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I mention this only because meeting people from around the world was one BIG reason Lucinda decided she'd like to do a bed and breakfast. She wanted to have a diversity of guests. We both worked in environments that had many fellow workers from different parts of the world and the people we dealt with were from a large diverse group. The Linkedin post I mentioned also said they had started or bought their B&B's because they wanted they same thing. Most of those B&B's in the posts were in areas that we think would be great places visit: France, Belgium, Netherlands, England, Germany, South Africa, Brazil, Belize, Costa Rica and many more.<br />
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A group from Hawaii with several ancestral backgrounds. It is great fun to be with them.</div>
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The point of this is really quite simple, our lives are rich with friendly people from all over the world. With this mixture of societies and personalities we all have a great time in the great room here at Lucinda's Country Inn. We didn't have life long dreams of doing Lucinda's, but when we got the bug we knew it would be a perfect match for us. We have loved our experience here at Lucinda's and we continually strive to make your experiences wonderful. The friendships and great people we have shared tales with is unbelievable. Just last Friday a Naval Aviator of 27 years was with us. He told me he was the flight commander for the flight over Libya in that late 1980's raid with two KIA's. He's had over 5,000 hours in Navy flying machines and has made more than 1,000 carrier landings. I was enthralled with that because I wanted to be a fly boy when I was much younger. Unfortunately I became to old for flight school, as all the schools were closing admissions in 1973. Oh well, I lived through Wayne's stories last Friday.<br />
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Daryl Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-71067904514593878002014-10-29T10:38:00.001-07:002014-10-29T10:38:37.271-07:00Fair Play TerroirI was thinking that once you are here in Fair Play and are enjoying some
of the great wines from the many great wineries here, you'd wonder what makes the wines so great.We all know the winemaker slaves over his harvest, crush, fermentation and barrel aging, but most of us don't know about the Fair Play Terrior. That word is pronounced tar-war. Similar to pronunciation of Pinot Noir. After all, both are French. That means we have to say them the same way. I can't and I seldom try with any success.<br />
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So what is the Fair Play Terroir? I've just thrown in Fair Play as that is the area I'm writing about. Fair Play is an American Viticulture Appellation (AVA). That means Fair Play is now known as an area that has grapes grown which are unique to Fair Play; and if they are sold outside of Fair Play and are used as a varietal in wine, the label must say Fair Play. You've seen labels with Napa, Paso Robles, Sonoma, etc. and then the name of the wine - Cabernet Sauvignon. The AVA labeling is a legal act that keeps grapes special for the area they were grown in. What makes the area where they are grown has all kinda of different elements. All those things thrown together are the Terroir.<br />
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Iverson Vineyard with Malbec vines on the east slope.</div>
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When using Fair Play Terroir together I am really speaking about the culture of the Fair Play wine industry. The terroir is really an inclusive word for all aspects of what makes the grapes, not only the wine. Many experts can agree on only a few elements of terroir, but most agree terroir is largely the soil, micro-climates, agricultural practices and the environment of the home of the grape vines.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Discussions of terroir can
incorporate proximity to mountain ranges like here in Fair Play or with closeness to
rivers, headwaters, valleys, dormant or extinct volcanoes, mineral deposits,
old-growth forests or strong ocean currents. Terroir is a blanket term for
nearly everything that has or will affect the soil in which the grape roots
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a nutshell terroir is almost everything about where a grape vine is located and planted. A north facing slope above a river which is fed from a lake in a volcano crater has very distinct and different aspects of its growth than a vine planted on a south facing slope with little crevasses and loamy decomposed granite soils and large oak trees near by. From the toiling of the soil to the finished bottle is the terroir of the wine. Many a wine snob, ooppss, I mean expert, has their own long winded explanation of what they mean by terroir. Seldom do you hear complete agreement, nor is there a reason for complete agreement. Terroir is the interpretation of the wine and wine making activities for those distinct and different grape growing regions and wine making practices. </span></div>
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Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-42042736072326261102014-10-03T11:08:00.000-07:002014-10-03T11:08:01.627-07:00What is in Fair play? - The History of the Fair Play Wine Country # 3I was thinking that once you are here in Fair Play and are enjoying some
of the great wines from the many great wineries here, you'd wonder how
it all started. This is the third and final part of the History of the Fair Play Wine Country. Hold on to your seat, this will be like a Vin Diesel & Paul Walker "Fast & Furious".<br />
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A the conclusion of part 2 I said Cindy & I lived next to a future winery. Mike and "D" Iverson lived on the back side of the property we rented while we started our construction of Lucinda's Country Inn. They both worked "down the hill" while moving dirt, planting vines and rearranging the barn, the storage shed and almost everything else on their property. We could sit on our patio looking at the setting sun and see Mike & "D" walking to their mail box at the end of their driveway. We have become good friends. They opened in March of 2006. <br />
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I make no apologies for the non-chronological order of the winery start positions. From the time Cindy and I started building Lucinda's Country Inn until today there have been over two dozen new wineries open in the Fair Play Appellation. Our little corner of the world has truly become a mecca of great boutique wineries; all have won many awards. The terroir and micro-climates of the Fair Play Wine Country make the region a standout for full bodied, rich flavored wines, like Zinfaandel, Barbera, Petite Syrah, just to name a few. The following is a thumbnail of the other wineries I have not already covered in my two privious posts about the history of the Fair Play Wine Country.<br />
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dkcellars finally opened their tasting room in Fair Play after many
years of having tastings in the Vino de Plaza tasting center in Lockford, just east of
Stockton. Firefall Winery's tasting room was on Mt. Aukum Rd. room near the Somerset four way stop sign. Their vineyard is up Grizzly Flat Rd. After Firefall left their tasting room, Cantiga Winery opened in that space while their winery was being built on Grizzly Flat Rd. Now, that building houses the Bechard Winery tasting room, with their vineyard is up Grizzly.<br />
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Speaking of Grizzly Flat Rd., Busby Cellars Vineyard and Winery was developed by the owners, Elliott & Sherrie Graham, with them doing most of the work themselves. Saluti Cellars in a about 3 miles from the Somerset 4-way stop sign; up Grizzly Flat Rd. Randy & Tina Rossi have developed without question one of the most beautiful winery properties ever created.<br />
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At the corner of Fairplay Rd. and Mt. Mount was Sierra Oaks Winery tasting room for many years, until the owner, Jim Brown, retired and closed up shop. As we went through the grueling County process of permitting, Paul Toogood out smarted the County by drilling into the hillside for caves. He by-passed the county and got permitted by the State Mines & Geology for the Toogood Winery. John Alexander blasted his way into Fair Play by dynamiting the building pad for his Colibri Ridge Winery into the rocks on the Grey Rock Rd. <br />
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Mt. Aukum Winery built their tasting room on Mt. Aukum on Tower Rd., named for the communication tower adjacent to the winery. Cheateau Routon is an Arabian Horse ranch as well as their winery. Their tasting room has one of the best panoramic views in the Fair Play Wine Country. Linda Neil at Mellowood Winery started her own vineyard and winery after many years of vineyard management in Napa.<br />
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Cindy & I attended an Ag Commission meeting where Golden Leaves owner, John Verbitsky, said he was going to have an assembly room for about 50 people. Boy the the sh** hit the fan. He now has a <i><b>tasting room</b></i> that holds about 50 people. Jonathan Lachs & Susan Marks developed the hill behind Single Leaf, up Marestail Lane for their Cedarville Winery. Mike & Carrie Skinner have one of the most spectacular views of the Fair Play Valley. Mike Skinner's family roots go way bay to the mid-1800's with vineyards. His ancestors planted grapes in Recuse before there were anything like tasting rooms. Now his Skinner Winery sits atop a hill with the tasting room is surrounded by great rock walls and patios. </div>
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Robert Van der Vijver of Van der Vijver Estates has the motto,"Ask for Forgivenss". His approach has worked well for him. MV is short for Miller Vineyards. John Miller had to change his name because ABC said there was already a Miller Vineyards Winery. Shadow Ranch Vineyards & Winery shares the long windy driveway with Gwillan Estates. Both are nestled atop hills with good views. Palissandro Vineyards & Winery planted several Italian varietals, so they will have truly Italian wines to enjoy. The last one I will mention is not really a winery, but a commercial tasting room, Winery By the Creek. This tasting room is owned by Charles Mitchell and the grapes are from all over California.</div>
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For a good look at the wineries in the Fair Play Winery Association <a href="http://www.fairplaywine.com/" target="_blank">click here</a> . I've mentioned Cindy & I several times in these three posts. Cindy is actually <a href="http://www.lucindascountryinn.com/" target="_blank">Lucinda of Lucinda's Country Inn</a> and I am the tag along whose name was not used for the Inn.</div>
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I was thinking that once you are here in Fair Play and are enjoying some
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Lucinda (Cindy) & I bought the property in 1997. We quickly began to redirect the drainage. You never really control the water runoff, but you can help it flow into places you want it to go. We installed a 12" by 450' long culvert on the east side of our building site. On the west there is an 18" by 500 foot long one. That helped keep the vast majority of water from running directly through our building site. We then were able to build Lucinda's Country Inn, with the help a a large 600 foot long french drain on the Perry Creek Rd. side of the building site..</div>
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I mention Lucinda's Country Inn before any of the wineries because the first four wineries were the only ones really in Fair Play before Cindy & I became a small part of Fair Play. Well, I guess that's not exactly, completely true. Perry Creek Vineyards & Winery and Single Leaf Winery were in their infancy, a little while before we opened Lucinda's Country Inn. </div>
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Perry Creek was started by a gentleman from Southern California who made his money in the textile business. Michael Chasen built his winery, planted his grapes and became known for his auto collection and the walk-in cigar humidor. He later bought 7UP Bar Ranch and converted it into a B&B and added more vines on that property. Cindy & I stayed many a night at 7UP Bar Ranch B&B while we looked for our property and started our work on Lucinda's. Single Leaf Winery was started by Scott & Pam Miller, who at the time lived in Carson City, NV. Scott was the curator for the Nevada State Museum while Pam toiled as a lobbyist for the Nevada Contractors. They traveled over the hill for decades planting their vines and tending to the efforts of starting their winery. They live in a 5th Wheel while doing all this. Finally, after opening their tasting room they got their home built. </div>
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Today this is the view from Single Leaf's deck over looking their vineyard and the Fair Play Valley.</div>
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A quick digression: Cindy & I frequented Fair Play from Southern California when we lived there for a few years. On one trip we saw a sign on the road "Winery OPEN". The driveway went up the long hill to a little red building, not much bigger than a small farm barn. There was a concrete pad on the side of the "barn" so we knew it wasn't a farm operation. We heard a man's voice yelling "I'll be right there." It was Scott yelling from his tractor down hill in the vineyard. About five minutes later he was walking up beating dirt from his clothes as he approached. We were the first official wine tasters for Single Leaf Winery.</div>
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So when we started the detailed plans for Lucinda's Country Inn there were just 6 wineries in Fair Play. We designed Lucinda's based on the fact of no restaurants and few wineries in Fair Play. Before we started building two more wineries were added. Oakstone Winery and Chalet Fleur de Lys were up and running.</div>
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Oakstone Winery up from the ashes as Oakstone2.0 !</div>
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John and Susan Smith were the founders of Oakstone Winery. They opened their tasting rooms doors in 1997. In John's prior life he was a chemist with Johnson & Johnson's Life Scan Division. Susan was a teacher in a community college in the Bay Area, where they moved from. John worked with Scot Miller at Single Leaf for a time. Neither will admit who was teaching who the wine making skills, but both do admit they'd be worse off without the other's help. One fine summer night about four years ago a fire started in the Oakstone barrel room. When the forklift's propane fuel tank got hot enough it exploded and blew Oakstone Winery to smithereens. The fire burned everything but one portion of one wall. Everything was lost. Fortunately, a few years earlier John had started another small winery, just for him to have fun making obscure wines, hence the name Obscurity Cellars. So Oakstone 2.0 was born out of the ashes of Oakstone and in the facilities of Obscurity Cellars. Steve & Liz Ryan make an excellent team and have preserved the integrity of Oakstone and are championing great strides to keep the traditions of Oakstone alive and growing.<br />
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John Smith summarized another winery was in Fair Play before most of the second wave started. The Slater Winery specialized in vegetable and fruit wines like cucumber, squash, peach and apple. He lasted only one season. That's why most folks don't list him as a real winery</div>
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Chalet Fleur de Lys was born from the labor of love of the outdoors and growing things. Robert Lajoie was in the printing business for many years when he and his wife, Mireille, discovered El Dorado County on a trip to Coloma to pan for gold. Their migration began in Montreal then to Burbank and they finally moved to Fair Play and started their vineyard venture in 1996. The Gilpin family of Windwalker helped Robert with the beginnings of their operation. In fact, Robert used to work in the Windwalker tasting room with Arnie. Both fed off each to tell outrageous stories and have lots of fun. They became "grasshoppers", everlasting friends. Cindy & I would stop in at Windwalker and Arnie would have us take their grasshopper to Robert's, and vise a virsa. The Fleur de Lys tasting room opened as Lucinda's Country Inn was going through the torture of the County permitting process. Cindy & I would venture to Robert & Meri's on Sunday afternoons late and lament about the rigors we went through the past week and shared stories about them & us going through the BS (Business Stuff) of the County. There we few visitors in the tasting room in those early days, so Robert and I would get animated to the hilt.<br />
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Cindy & I lived next door to a future winery for two years while getting started on the construction of Lucinda's Country Inn. That winery became a newbies then. I'll explain in part 3.<br />
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Daryls Ponderingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14411814408369579576noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3615025712488370149.post-49457084220540271722014-08-03T11:56:00.002-07:002014-08-03T11:56:47.677-07:00Alive and Well After the Sand Fire ScareI was thinking; what would it be like to stay in other places close to home. Saturday, July 26th, we had the unfortunate opportunity to do just that because the Sand Fire forced us to evacuate Lucinda's Country Inn and send all our guests away to safety.That was a nerve wracking experience. For 2-1/2 days we were on pins and needles awaiting official word about the Sand Fire and its advancement towards Fair Play. Yes, we got tid bits and snippets of information over the TV and radio. The officials in charge were dedicated to getting the Sand Fire under complete control. We finally started to get some real details via the Cal Fire website on Sunday night and Monday morning. We returned to a standing Lucinda's Country Inn on Tuesday, July 29th; just as a precaution we stayed that extra night. The fire was being somewhat controlled until Saturday afternoon when the winds blew it out of control. So we knew it had a potential to do it again because Monday afternoon it was windy.<br />
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Saturday about 6:30pm we got the word the evacuation is for real. By the time we grabbed our photos and a few picture/paintings on the walls that are extremely sentimental, complete tree leaves blacken by the fire and chunks of wood the size of large marbles had fallen all over the property. We knew it was time to get us, our son and grandson the hell out of Fair Play. We thought most folks who evacuated on Friday and earlier than us were taking every room available in the Placerville hotels and motels. I drove up to Pollock Pines to find the two hotels there had NO Vacancies!! Driving further up Highway 50 toward Lake Tahoe, about 25 miles our side of Lake Tahoe, we found Strawberry Lodge. Cindy & I spent one night there a few years ago when we did a ride in the Highway 50 60th Wagon Train. We only slept in the room, there was an evening BBQ with dance and a Chuck Wagon breakfast. We did not have the pleasure of a dining experience.</div>
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When we got the last 2 rooms that Saturday I believe the only modernizing Strawberry Lodge ever experienced was adding electricity and plumbing. The rooms were small and the beds, linens and table and chair were from the Great Depression Era. Bad by any standard. The dining room service in the morning was by folks playing Keystone Cops, or chickens with theirs heads cut off. Cindy got our waters and coffees. It was probably the best example of how NOT to run a dining room.</div>
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Sunday & Monday nights were a sheer delight. After trying a couple other lodging establishments; both mostly filled with Cal Fire personnel, we were lucky to get the last 2 rooms at the Holiday Inn Express at El Dorado Hills. They upgraded us to their Romantic Suite and another suite. The management worked with many locals who were displaced because of the Sand Fire. Every single employee treated us like royalty. Jenny, the General Manager, even called some of the corporate clientele to ask them to wait a week before returning, so she could have room for the Sand Fire evacuees.Thank you to all Holiday Inn Express employees for your kindness and professionalism.</div>
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I write this blog to say I've found a new retreat for Cindy & I. And, it's even closer than Lake Tahoe. The Holiday Inn Express at El Dorado Hills is our new home away from home. So to answer my thought at the beginning, yes there is a great place to stay close to Fair Play. I encourage you too to stay at the <a href="http://www.hiexpress.com/hotels/us/en/el-dorado-hills/edhls/hoteldetail?qAdlt=1&qBrs=6c.hi.ex.rs.ic.cp.in.sb.cw.cv&qChld=0&qFRA=1&qGRM=0&qPSt=0&qRRSrt=rt&qRef=df&qRms=1&qRpn=1&qRpp=10&qSHp=1&qSmP=3&qSrt=sBR&qWch=0&srb_u=1&icdv=99504425&siclientid=10073&icdv=99504425">Holiday Inn Express</a> and tell 'em Daryl & Cindy of Lucinda's Country Inn sent you.</div>
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Now that you understand how we know what was in Fair Play before any wineries, I can now tell you about the vineyards and wineries. I believe it was about 1967 the UC Davis Agricultural Extension Program was studying some of the places and elevations where grapes would flourish. Vernon Gerwer owned property in Fair Play. He was a County Supervisor for many years and UC Davis contacted him about their study. They worked together to plant a few acres of grapes. A few years later there were rich, sugar concentrated grapes that matured. The next question was, were those grapes viable for making wine. The viticulture & enology department at the campus made some very good wine. Ala, wine is possible in Fair Play.<br />
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Vernon Gerwer started Gerwer Winery, Les Russel started Granite Springs Winery and Brian Fitzpatrick started Fitzpatrick Winery & Lodge; they were the first three wineries in Fair Play. Of course it took a few years for the grapes to mature before making wine. They all opened for business about the same time in the early 1980's. That inspired other people to forge their own vineyards and start wineries. L.W. Richards quickly followed suit with his LW Richards Winery. He sold to the Bailey family shortly after his successful venture started. The Bailey's changed the name to Windwalker Vineyards & Winery in honor of one of their horses. In the mid '90s Arnie & Paige Gilpin bought Windwalker for their winemaker son, Rich. Now Windwalker is owned by Jim & Alanna Taff. Windwalker was awarded the Golden Bear for the BEST RED OF SHOW at the California State Fair in 2011 for their 2008 Primitivo. That was the first for any Fair Play wineries.<br />
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Owners of the earliest wineries also sold. Gerwer sold to Charles B. Mitchell who changed the name to Charles B. Mitchell Vineyards. Les Russel sold to Frank Latchman, owner/founder of Latcham Winery, who kept the name Granite Springs. Since Frank passed a few years ago the Latcham family has sold Granite Springs to Chris Barnham. After 30+ years Brian & Diana Fitzpatrick sold Fitzpatrick Winery and Lodge to Vivan Li. She has changed the name to Gold Mountain Winery and Fitzpatrick Lodge.<br />
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Here are Cindy and Sue Langman in the newest vineyard </div>
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Oh, yeah. I almost forgot to tell you. Over the years during this evolution of Fair Play Cindy & I have been to every one of these wineries and all the newer ones I'll write about next time.<br />
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'Till next time....<br />
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