Pick of the Day

Good morning Antoinette, 

Now that Father's Day has passed, and we are on the wrong side of the summer solstice we must take heart in picking the right wine for our midsummer's day celebration Friday. Now the word pick has several meanings, and represents why English can be hard to learn. For instance you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose. You can use a pick like an axe, strum your guitar with a pick, pick your team, pick up your luggage, pick up a girl/guy, pick up the check, pick a fight, use a pick up line, drive a pickup, and remember boys and girls, in basketball a moving pick is a violation. If you want to go homonymy, you can take a pic, but homonyms are a slippery slope...next thing you know you're talking about URANUS. Now you might be thinking where is this going...not sure, but I know the etymology of pick and oenology relate in one way and that's when you need a pick me up, pick wine! Midsummer is the halfway point to harvest when a new vintage will come to fruition and we will have the opportunity to pick more wine. So always keep your glass at least half full and pick a winner to drink! Pick up a head of steam and go to your favorite wine shop to pick your favorite grape before the best picks are all picked over, and if you need help, pick the brain of the proprietor....then take it home and get pick'led. And don't drink and drive unless you want to get picked up by Johnny Law and thrown in the pickey (some people call it the pokey). I wonder if my English teachers will be proud of my alliterative attempt at picking the right thing to write about? Next time I'll just take a pickture ...it's worth a 1000 words!

Pick me, pick me

June 22, 2016