Friday birthday giveaway

And the winner is: The winning number is 156 — screen shot to the left. The winner is Northern Boy, who picked 251. He also gets the tin of Wine Curmudgeon M&M candies. Thanks again to everyone who participated.

Birthday week ends today, and thank you to everyone for making it so much fun. We've had lots of new visitors, we've given away some great prizes, and we had so many people enter the drawings I'm walking around with a dumb smile on my face. The final giveaway: the Jimtown Store Cookbook, highlighting the food and recipes of one of Sonoma County's must-see sites, plus a tin of Wine Curmudgeon M&M candies.

To win the prize, pick a number between 1 and 1,000 and leave it in the comment section of this post. If you get the blog via email, you'll have to go to the Web site to enter your number. At about 5 p.m. central today, I'll go to random.org and generate the winning number. The person whose number is closest to the random number when I post the number this afternoon wins the prize — and no, you can't pick a number someone else has picked or enter more than once.