Raise A Glass, Thursday Is Wine Down Night
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Hill Country Living
By Coulter Fussell
It’s Wine Down Week! If you are reading this on Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning, there’s still time to get your calendar cleared for Water Valley’s fall-time issue of our downtown wine stroll! Mosey on down to the Pocket Park at 5:30 on Thursday afternoon and buy a wristband from me and my fellow Water Valley Main Street Association board members/volunteers. We will be set up at a table in front of the Water Valley Wave mural. The wristband gets you a Wine Down tumbler and wine tastings at various businesses all up and down Main Street. So, get to enjoying yourself! This is a popular, laid-back event and the weather is looking terrific for Thursday: sunny with a high in the low 70s.
Soccer moms, we know. Thursday is soccer night. We’ve heard you, we see you and, as y’all are loyal and core participants in our Wine Down events, we love you. We had no choice but to plan the event for Thursday unless we added an eighth day to the week. Unfortunately, we don’t have the authority to do that. An eighth day of the week specifically for wine drinking seems like an idea we could all get behind, though. “Winesday,” if you will. It could come between Wednesday and Thursday. And don’t anybody out there say, “Well, that’s what Friday is for.” No, it’s not. Friday is for frozen margaritas.
I’ve been there, soccer moms. You juggle soccer games much better than any of the kids juggle the actual soccer ball. Now that my kids are older, I can say with some retrospective distance that soccer is sort of like childbirth — years later you’ve forgotten those hours of your life, and the kid definitely doesn’t remember. So, keep that in mind when you call the babysitter, hit up Dad or put Memaw in charge so you can duck out of that soccer game early. My God, you can’t be expected to do it all!
This week is also my favorite Water Valley event of the year, the Rotary Club’s Chili Cook-Off! I love this event because the concept is so simple: bring chili, eat chili. And, if that wasn’t genius enough, somebody also wins! Cook-offs are fun. My hometown used to do cook-offs for all sorts of food categories: chicken and dumplings, fried chicken, butterbeans, cornbread, cake, etc. My Aunt Ann always won in biscuits. One year, my mom’s bread loaf “would’ve won” in the general bread category except the judges ate it all at a party the night before.
Lastly, if I can’t manage to find a ticket to the game Saturday, then you best believe I will be at Shuffield Park for the Chamber’s big-screen tailgate party! What a great idea. What a great idea. Lane Kiffin, if you’re reading this (which, of course you are) then just know that the town of Water Valley wants you to stay at Ole Miss! That should seal the deal for you.
It’s sure to be an active and fun week in Water Valley! See you all out and about!
