Jesus spent a lot of time in an olive orchard this week. What is often called “the Olivet Discourse” was probably a Tuesday evening discussion with His disciples, sitting together in the grove as they viewed the Temple and busy city of Jerusalem across the valley. That particular olive grove has a spectacular setting and [...]
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Olive Grove Tuesday
Posted: 3rd April 2012 by Roy Goble in D'Oliva Olive Oil, Family, Random ThoughtsTags: D'Oliva Olive Oil, Holy week reflections, Olivet Discourse
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The 2011 D’Olivia Olive Oil harvest is bottled, labeled and ready to sell! D’Aun set the price at $20 per 375 ml bottle, which includes a pour spout. I argued for a higher price but she’s too gracious to do that … so this is a real bargain! Please let me know if you’d like [...]
Christmas Letter
Posted: 15th December 2011 by Roy Goble in D'Oliva Olive Oil, Family, Goble Properties, PathLight, The SOLD ProjectTags: D'Oliva Olive Oil, Family Christmas letter, Goble Properties, PathLight International, The SOLD Project, Two Story Films
I was once known for my hilarious Christmas letters. Or at least I thought they were funny. But life got busy, not to mention less than rosy all the time, and hilarity sometimes turned into the mundane. It can be hard to muster the energy to put out a Christmas letter, much less one with [...]
The D’Oliva Olive Oil second harvest!
Posted: 14th November 2011 by Roy Goble in D'Oliva Olive OilTags: D'Aun Goble, olive harvest
This past Saturday was the second annual olive harvest for D’Oliva! It was a great deal of fun to have friends and family come out to help. D’Aun did a great job of coaxing 282 pounds of olives out of the grove in a very complex year. Here’s a link to the story with more [...]
Holy Week Reflections – Olive Tuesday
Posted: 19th April 2011 by Roy Goble in D'Oliva Olive Oil, Random ThoughtsTags: Gethsemane, Holy week reflections, Mount of Olives
A walk with Jesus through the olive orchard…and reflections on what he might be thinking.
Family, Blogging, and Links
Posted: 28th January 2011 by Roy Goble in Book Reviews, D'Oliva Olive Oil, Family, Random Thoughts, UncategorizedTags: Bay Area Professional Videographers Association, Olive oil, Reading Lists, The SOLD Project, videography
I have several links for you to click today…trust me, you’ll have fun with this… A lot of people who read this blog were supporters of my son when he went to Thailand last year. Jedd was there to create a video for The SOLD Project, which combats child prostitution in that country. Well, here’s [...]
The Laundry Room That Became a Wine Cellar
Posted: 18th January 2011 by Roy Goble in D'Oliva Olive Oil, Wine ReviewsTags: Bordeaux wines, Chateau Mouton Rothschild, Wine Collecting
The first house D’Aun and I bought was a rickety old home built in 1913 that had a most un-californian feature: a basement. After our first wine experience in Bordeaux I built a small rack and collected my first bottles of wine. Eventually we moved and lost that fun basement, but I still kept collecting. [...]
Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I thought I’d share something that I recently read … it struck me as unnervingly appropriate given the season that D’Aun and I have had. Truthfully, I’m not even sure I fully understand it and wish I knew more about it’s origin. But it’s still striking in it’s own way, [...]