“Compliments of Oscar and Sue” by louannwarren

“Compliments of Oscar and Sue”

Quite a few years ago my sister and her husband gave bottles of wine at Christmas time. The bank they used for their business had repossessed a winery in Lubbock and the bank asked their business customers to help out by buying the wine. It was a standing family joke because the wine was terrible. Ultimately the regulators told the bank they had to get rid of the winery! Two years ago they gave us this wind chime made from one of the bottles of their wine, the best use of all for the wine, smile!
Great wind chime. I do remember that wine. Smile.
March 6th, 2018  
@henrir wasn’t it terrible?! Ha!
March 6th, 2018  
Bep
Cute wind chime...
March 6th, 2018  
Best thing to do with the bottles it seems ! -- They do make charming and "different "chimes !!
March 6th, 2018  
Very clever. I like it.
March 6th, 2018  
What a great gift to get and it is so unique looking.
March 6th, 2018  
Such a great idea as there is nothing worse than a bad wine ;-)
March 6th, 2018  
Clearly sounds better than it tasted then Lou Ann, very creative:)
March 6th, 2018  
A very original wind chime
March 6th, 2018  
What a great story.
March 6th, 2018  
Ha Ha cool wind chime!
March 6th, 2018  
What a great story (except for the winery of course) -- love the wind chime that resulted.
March 7th, 2018  
So cute!
March 7th, 2018  
It is no wonder the winery is no longer if they were producing such awful wine
March 7th, 2018  
👍👍👍
March 7th, 2018  
A clever way to recycle that wine bottle - definitely a conversation piece.
March 7th, 2018  
Oh, that story is just great. When the bank regulators tell you to get rid of the wine, you know that there is just no value in it! ;) What a fun commemorative piece.
March 7th, 2018  
Very nice wind chime
March 7th, 2018  
I would love to have a wine bottle wind chime! This wine bottle wind chime goes with your wine bottle tree that you put behind your pool's waterfall. I remember you posted a picture of that tree. Great POV for this fun shot and a very cute story! :-)
March 7th, 2018  
Great use for the bottle.
March 7th, 2018  
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Thank you so much for your fun comments. That winery has had 3 owners since the bank finally sold it. Even though Lubbock has the perfect weather and soil to grow grapes, Caprock has struggled through the years to make good wine.

@gaylewood There is a craft show in Boerne every month and my sister found the glass artist there to make the wine bottle chimes. Thank you for commenting and thank you for the fav!!
March 7th, 2018  
Fun story and wind chime! Glad the wineries around here are good enough that they don't have to worry about the bank repossessing them!
March 9th, 2018  
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