After a meal of filet of kangaroo -- deliciously tender in a light pepper sauce, and served in the elegant dining room -- I wandered over to the century-old stone Woolshed Winery where estate-bottled wines and 20 other labels from local wineries are on sale at the cellar door.
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"I'm basically stone-mad, " she said, adding that she'd like to create more furniture and decorative objects with semiprecious gems.
In my lifetime, I went from stone cold broke to self-made millionaire because of capital gains.
It's something I feel strongly about - these things should be written in stone, as they are with players.
I'm standing at a first-floor window, an arched stone one like you'd find in a church, my face close up to the diamond-shaped leaded panes, keeping lookout.
On a spring afternoon, I stood out in front of the best-known club in Asbury Park, the Stone Pony, and waited for an aging drummer named Vini (Mad Dog) Lopez, the unluckiest man in the E Street saga.
It was then that I saw that the settlement had been constructed on gradually descending levels separated by primitive stone-paved walkways.
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Following my small walking group, I strode across the hilltop, away from this ancient site of pilgrimage and across the stone-pitted flank of the hill.
"Seriously, I hope that you're not disappointed that there won't be a big coming-out speech tonight because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age, very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family, co-workers and then gradually, proudly to everyone who knew her, to everyone she actually met, " she continued.
But Stone told a couple of my colleagues, 'Say sorry to Peter Cooper for me - I shouldn't have aimed at him.
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