When Ev and I were Jim & Shirley this past week (Thursday). We decided to have a dinner party over at Jim & Shirley’s on Sunday. They would host the party and I would cook. So we started calling some friends to see who could join us.. There would only be 8 of us.
Rudy & Faith and Jim & Jan would arrive with their motorhomes just before Ev and I on Sunday.
Jim & Shirley had everything so lovely! We had the party in the Barn.. They have a beautiful barn, you would love this barn! Loft upstairs filled with gorgeous treasures everywhere! Or room:
This is where we would entertain all our guests for dinner and brunch the next morning.
This barn also has a huge downstairs, where there is a “bar”, a sitting area with comfy furniture with wood burning stove, car parking in the same area. And that is only a small part of it. GREAT building! It was a gorgeous day! Ev and I had shorts on and everyone else had spring type clothing, except Jan and she thought it was winter I think.. She had a cute sweater and pants with stiletto heals.. she found that those shoes were probably not really good for walking on the uneven ground..She sure looked cute though..Soon she changed her shoes.. she still looked cute.. Wasn’t long and we all had some wine going on and then we went upstairs to get the potatoes going.. Our menu was Clam Chowder, bbq ribs, rosemary roasted potatoes (check my website for recipe)
http://www.clearlakevacationsonline.com/recipes/index.html
Homemade Lemon Meringue Pie (check my website for recipe), along with a nice green salad. Wine flowing freely, started with the clam chowder then to salad and dinner.w/wonderful cheeezzzee bread (Faith). We had quite a bit of left overs, as you can well imagine.. after the soup and salad, it was pretty much a done deal, everyone was full. We didn’t have room for dessert either.. uumm good food!
Rudy & Faith brought a fire pit, so we all went outside to sit by the fire.. made it nice and cozy.. Pretty soon Jim got the music going and we could hear him singing along with the cd.. well that perked my interest, love to karaoke.. soon we were in another part of the barn singing karaoke.. Jim, Rudy and Linda.. Faith and Shirley dancing.. fun fun!
A couple of hours of sitting by the fire and we started loosing person after person.. Wasn’t long and the rest of us said “Good night”..
Monday morning we all got going about 9am.. ready for the day.. coffee, fizzes and champagne.. Jim was ever so busy with making the fizzes. Blenders would freeze up he was making them so fast!! Good thing they had 3 or 4 blenders! Fizzes were wonderful! Shirley was making trips back and forth to the house about every 5 minutes to get something that was forgotten or needed from the house. Faith got her chili relleno casserole going (to die for, delicious!), J & S had some fruit cut up and Jan had brought her wonderful brandied pears she had canned..Another great meal.
We had had many fizzes, they are so rich! feeling a bit full already. Breakfast was a hit.. Champagne flowed during breakfast. I think by time we were done with breakfast there were many of us ready for a nap.. But we didn’t, we went back outside (another beautiful day) sat out and visited with each other.. Fun times.. Party broke up about 1..
Thanks Guys for a really fun time! We will have to do it again sometime!!
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