And Again, Wine Bonds (& World Cup)

Glory Be to Michael! Sorted! He found a Bondsman in Westerville and we have an appointment this Friday! Seems like it will be a formality and not too expensive either. Bonus!
Also, Slate Run offered to meet us and help with the winery. Very nice man indeed.
Small world. The Slate Run winery guy, who knows Nina, put Michael on to him. Also, the Slate Run guy knows Eric from the winery to be next year local to me. I met Eric and his family two weeks ago at Matt's Annual (but last) Crab Fest. Eric put us onto the Farm angle with our property, the Townships OK with it and today Cynthia met with the Farmer at Stratford Ecological Center who agreed to come help us with the Farm. In fact, his previous job was helping start up smallholdings. We have to collect soil samples for him. Synchronisity?
World Cup. On Saturday Dad called. He only calls international to inform me of Deaths in the Family and extended Italian Community, so I can send condolenses or flowers, as the level of kinship dictates. However, since italy were playing the US I thought he wanted to chat about the game.
But no, it was a death, Danielle's Mother, Ida, died in Italy. I need to send a card to his Dad. Danielle and I spent many happy summers in Italy roaming the mountains and when we could drive, roaming the local towns in Dad's car, forcing our brand of UK indie music on unsuspecting bars and so on and so forth. We dammed a local river once to go swimming in.
Then Dad slips in that the game was atrocious. I said don't tell me the score as I was taping it and he replied that that's Ok as they equalized. Done. Damn. Anyway, he thought both temas should be disqualified for playing such an unprofessional game of football. And from what I saw, I have to agree. Two US players got send off along with one Italian. The Italian manager sensed how it was going to go and pulled Totti off after 30 minutes to save him for the crucial Czech Republic game on Thursday.
The England v Sweden game tonight was a pleasure to watch by contrast. It was 2 - 2, enough to put both of those teams through to the next round. However, Sweden plays Germany next, so good luck!. England is drawn against Ecuador (I think) , so maybe the easier game. Not sure.