God is Good/We Had Fun

We hosted a little garden luncheon on Wednesday for the Remington Museum.

It was fun.

Sunday night Laura and I wrapped our best silver in linen napkins tied with raffia. Ann came on Tuesday night to get all the "stuff" out; plates, water goblets, coffee cups and saucers, crystal cream and sugar bowls, dessert dishes, "the" silver serving trays(straight from the auction in ABay), she cut the lavender which was to be tucked into the napkins the next morning, and in her best school teacher hand writing she chalked the menu on the blackboard.

Wednesday morning Laura was out "Listerining" the back yard, after fogging it the day before. Listerine is our new, natural bug repellent, and it works. We set up the tables, dragged out the chairs, set out the linens, put the silverware and goblets out, put the centerpieces on, cut the lemons, cooked the chicken, created herbed butter from the herbs right outside the kitchen, sliced and toasted the bread, lite the candles, made the punch, and set out the appetizers and waited for the guests and prayed.

God was good. It poured in Potsdam, but not here. My dear husband was in Potsdam worrying about the ladies in the backyard and where I was going to serve lunch. We were spared.

If I had had my thinking cap on, I would have imported a keyboard and then Nancy and Darlene could have played and sang arias for the guests enjoyment. Next time.

Nancy plated the chicken caeser salad, and Darlene did the seafood salad, all with litte touches of lemon, paprika and drizzled dressing. It looked very elegant. Laura and Ann served together.

The big "hit", I must say, was the appearance of Colin as the Head Waiter. He took control of the serving and the guests really enjoyed the appearance of a handsome man. They even asked him what catering service we were from. We all were in black and white so we did look semi professional. And with his help and instruction we ran the operation quite smoothly.

Clearing, coffee and tea service, lovely raspberry serbet, adorned with mint and blackberries, and lemon pound cake, clearing, washing the silverware and loading and unloading the dishwasher several times and the luncheon was done.

Then the five of us went on a private tour of the other gardens which were featured in the day's event.

We met new friends, had fun in the kitchen, saw new plants and interesting garden designs and in general had a great day! It was fun!