Continuing an evening of porterization with nightcaps at the Landfill, the GG insisted that we sit in the Holiday Room. (That means the dining “area” – we don’t have a dining *room* – where we actually eat at a table a few times a year.) I was grumpy about that but he insisted that he had a plan.

Well, one half of the plan turned out to be double-oaked Woodford Reserve bourbon in the teensiest tinesiest wee little liqueur glasses we own. Actually it was a taste test of sorts between some “regular” Woodford Reserve and double-oaked. The other half of the plan was the teensiest tinesiest wee little liqueur glasses on earth.

I don’t remember exactly when we bought those glasses (there are four of them) but it was in Gaylord and I don’t think we had discussed marriage yet. We were in an antique store. I think it was the only antique store in the bustling crossroads of Gaylord back then. Now that Gaylord is even more bustling, there are tons of antique stores (and a Meijer, a Walmart, an Ulta and all kinds of other stuff).

Anyway, we bought these wee little glasses in Gaylord and I figured they would all be broken within five years but here we are, more years later than I am strong enough to count, and all four of them are intact and we didn’t break any of them last night! I hope I haven’t jinxed that by writing this. I highly doubt that these little glasses have any monetary value but they are pretty and we like them.

While I’m reminiscing about glassware, I used to use cobalt-rimmed Mexican glassware in various sizes. Once I was in Kitchen Port (a wondrous but long-defunct shop in Kerrytown) with the GG and his identical twin, the UU. The GG and I had not discussed marriage yet. The UU was buying some of those glasses and I asked something like who the heck are you buying them for. He replied that they were for his sister-in-law. I was totally puzzled about which sister-in-law he was talking about. It didn’t seem like the right style for any of his sisters-in-law… Imagine my surprise when *I* opened that gift at the cFam xmas party!

I used (and loved) my cobalt-rimmed Mexican glassware for many years and a bunch of them broke along the way, as glassware does. I personally (and accidentally) broke a number of my Aunt Katie’s waterfowl glasses at the cabin. She never got angry and (thinking back), I bet they were easy and cheap to obtain because there always seemed to be more of them around for me to break! Anyway, after we renovated the Landfill Chitchen, I decided to buy some different glassware but I have kept what’s left of the cobalt-rimmed stuff and every time the beach urchins come over, I find myself putting one or two of them in the dishwasher (Note that this glassware is available in quantity at every Pier One Imports store everywhere, so it is not valuable.)

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