Last year my wife and I took a mini- vacation of wine tasting and bird watching near Lockeford, Calif. The two activities were sequential, not consecutive, because nothing ruins a view of several thousand sand hill cranes landing in a bayou like trying to balance a wine glass in one hand and a long-lens camera in the other. Chances are that we would not have fully appreciated the wine or the cranes using that two-handed system.

Read Louie Castoria's previous column, "Invited to a lawsuit."

We had a similar lesson in Lockeford. About a block from where we stayed, there is an eatery of sorts called Lockeford Donuts, complete with a large sign stating the establishment's business as "Donuts and Liquors," including images of two donuts alongside two martini glasses. The plural "s" at the end of Liquors seems to imply that one should consume two donuts with two different kinds of liquor. This is definitely not conducive to bird watching.

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