Oma was looking for some good but inexpensive wine for Oma and Opa’s Fortieth Wedding Anniversary. After all buying booze for sixty guests can get pretty pricey.
So where to go . . . . . . honestly, Oma scoured through all the weekly advertised specials and kept an excel spreadsheet filled with bargains.
In the end, all alcoholic purchases were made at Cost-Co; they had the best price on everything.
Oma discovered a very tasty Cameron Hughes Lot 409 2012 Central Coast Pinot Noir.
Lot 409 is sourced from a variety of great vineyards along the Central Coast. This wine shows bright cherry and violets on the nose complemented by spice and plum. Soft tannins make for a long finish.
Like Oma said it was very yummy – and Oma received many compliments regarding this wine from her partygoers.
Best part – Cost-Co price was $8.99 a bottle! What a delicious treasure.
This is an independent non-sponsored review – that means Oma did not receive any compensation nor product.
Friday, August 8, 2014
Eleven-Month-Old Reef Indy loves to play outdoors, especially if he can play with pound puppies Spike & Riley.
muvee is the creator of automatic video editing software. Since 2001, we've been making software that allows you to create awesome videos from your photos and video clips in just 3 steps! Upload your files, select a Style that includes transitions and effects and music (or select your own track!) and hit PLAY! That's it. All the hard work is done for you. In one click upload to Facebook, YouTube or burn to DVD. We have Styles that are more sophisticated and nostalgic for sentimental anniversary videos and fast and fun for family vacations or kids sporting events.
muvee Reveal 11 retails for $79.99.
New features include:
Cinematic Titles
We had professionals create a bunch of Trailer-style Title complete with its own short music tracks. You have the option of nominating 4 photos to be featured, along with mentions of the Director, Star and Producer. We also automatically create a billboard for each of your muvee project. Go on, be the star, or be the director. Or better yet. Be both.
Tweak your own Custom Styles
Start with a Style you like as a base. Then add your own ingredients from setting a faster pace, to selecting a color filter, to even changing the default font and background colors. When you are done tweaking, save your unique recipe and give it a new name. Voila! Your very own Style.
Graffitti
Found in the photo options drop down (right click on any photos), you can now add stickers to photos. Choose from many categories of stickers, from frames and borders, to hand drawn embellishments, to even light sparkles, fireworks and cute stickers for kids. You can then save a new photo with these embellishments for Facebook before using them in your muvee slideshow.
Take control of your muvee
Now you can tell muvee Reveal how you want it to prioritize your videos and photos and music. We have redesigned all these controls into a single page where you can simply tick the boxes and make very different edits instantly.
Collaborate and Edit Anywhere
Started your project in school or in the office and you want to continue editing on your home PC? Are you collaborating on a joint trip video? Now you can zip up all the photos, videos, and music content along with all settings, captions, intertitles and every imaginable detailed setting of your projects into a single file, and continue where you left off on another machine.
Capture and Add Video Snapshots
Now you can select images directly from your video clips and save! Want to submit a photo for the GoPro Photo of the Day competition? Or simply to post on Facebook? Import a video, and take snapshots of any frame in the video instantly by clicking “Capture”.
Oma found muvee Reveal 11 very user friendly. Literarily, less than a half an hour after downloading and install the software, the video below was made and saved to Oma’s desktop; not bad for a ‘video challenged’ writer!
Oma also marveled at muvee Reveal 11 capability to allow the user to decide how much customization they wished to exercise. You can simply upload your photos and let the program do all the work or you can spend a few moments to tweak the music, photo order, color . . . .
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Reef Indy is almost one years old. He has changed so much in this short period of time. Reef is an early walker; he has been walking for a month already and is really fast. As you can tell from the photo, Reef loves to feed himself though he is a bit messy.
Milestone of this month - Reef has figured how to open up doors all by himself . . . so we have to watch carefully to insure that he does not escape outside. He loves to play outside!
Research published in Psychological Science suggests that simply thinking in a foreign language helps people make quicker and better life decisions. Furthermore, a study by the College Entrance Examination Board reports a direct correlation between foreign language study and high SAT scores.
People who speak a foreign language often enjoy better career prospects and higher standards of living. And there are even health benefits -- recent research from the University of Chicago suggests that a second language also helps prevent dementia later in life.
"The earlier a child was exposed to a second language, the better the child did," Petitto tells WebMD. "This flies in the face of educational policy that says expose a child to only to one language at first. This does not support the holding policy that today is rampant in education. A child is not confused by a second language or delayed in learning the community language."
Speekee was founded in 2006 and has been building a reputation for quality Spanish learning ever since. Founders and directors: Jim Porter, Jan and Aaron Forshaw; all of them have a wide experience and knowledge of language learning systems for children and the development of technology for inter-active systems.
Speekee Spanish is geared towards kids ages two to eleven! The program utilizes videos, games, hands-on activities, printable worksheets, flash cards, and a plethora of other tools to help children learn to speak and write Spanish.
Speekee FastTrack: Perfect for Younger Learners
For children up to 7 years old
Look for the FastTrack near the bottom of the screen at www.speekee.com (membership required)
Your child learns Spanish through authentic Spanish videos, puppets and song
Optionally you use the FastTrack activity ideas at home
The Speekee Spanish Challenge: Brilliant for Older Learners
For children 7 years and older
Your child learns through over 40 authentic Spanish videos and mission based game play
Speekee tracks your child’s progress and reports back to you by email (you can unsubscribe from emails at any time)
- Explore, communicate, learn and play at www.speekee.com
After logging in, click on the bell icon for your first mission
What Oma loves about Speekee is that it makes teaching Spanish enjoyable. The Speekee website turns the learning an important second language in to online play while report progress to the child’s caregiver! Reef is just ten month old but already shows an interest in the computer. The Speekee website will be one of the first Oma introduces him to.
Giveaway
One lucky “Oma Loves U!” reader is going to win a 3-month subscription to Speekee! (ARV $22.50) Good Luck!!!
The giveaway is open to residents of the U.S., 18+. No P.O. Boxes will be accepted. The giveaway will run through 8/06/14. Winner will have 24 hours to respond to winning email before a new winner is selected. Make sure you are properly entering for the entries you claim. Failure to do so may result in your entries removed from the giveaway form.
I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.
