Gnats
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 12:54 pm
Hello All,
First post here-- a little history. I'm a native Texan who lived in the California bay area for 4 years from 1997 until 2001. While there, my wife and I fell in love with good wine, making many trips to Napa and Sonoma. As empty nesters, most evenings would begin on our patio with a bottle of good California wine. When retirement took us back to my native south Texas, we soon discovered a new phenomenon. We learned we couldn't comfortably enjoy a glass of wine on our patio without gnats flying into our glasses and swimming around. Then we learned to "fish" them out with napkin corners, and then cover our glasses with napkins, coasters, cd cases, paperback books, etc. I assumed this was more the rule than the exception across the country, since more of the country has lush foliage and some humidity than not. I was talking with a fellow wine lover from Michigan the other day, and he said he had never experienced it. My questions to the forum are: where do you live? do you ever drink wine outdoors? do you ever experience the gnat problem I described? if so, how do you address it?
Looking forward to communicating with all of you on this, and many other topics.
Take care,
Ben
First post here-- a little history. I'm a native Texan who lived in the California bay area for 4 years from 1997 until 2001. While there, my wife and I fell in love with good wine, making many trips to Napa and Sonoma. As empty nesters, most evenings would begin on our patio with a bottle of good California wine. When retirement took us back to my native south Texas, we soon discovered a new phenomenon. We learned we couldn't comfortably enjoy a glass of wine on our patio without gnats flying into our glasses and swimming around. Then we learned to "fish" them out with napkin corners, and then cover our glasses with napkins, coasters, cd cases, paperback books, etc. I assumed this was more the rule than the exception across the country, since more of the country has lush foliage and some humidity than not. I was talking with a fellow wine lover from Michigan the other day, and he said he had never experienced it. My questions to the forum are: where do you live? do you ever drink wine outdoors? do you ever experience the gnat problem I described? if so, how do you address it?
Looking forward to communicating with all of you on this, and many other topics.
Take care,
Ben