It all began a few days ahead
of the actual date when good friends
and AZ neighbors Neil & Shirley invited us to
dinner with a few other friends...
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| at LB Cantina, a great Mexican restaurant in Florence AZ (about 1/2 hour drive from Gold Canyon). |
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| Pitchers of Margaritas arrived and Neil & Shirley (front left) proposed a toast. |
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| And if that wasn't enough we all shared a typical Mexican dessert. |
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| And our waitress was always one step ahead of us and when I asked her to take a picture of us, she started with a selfie... |
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| A few days later Marla and Mike (at the head of the table) invited a group of my creative stained glass mosaic friends over for a fabulous home cooked meal and lots of great conversation!!! |
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| Marla mastered the selfie (but hubby Mike leaned back at just the wrong moment). Margo & Dennis were seated next to Don and I was seated next to Ron and Jerrilea. |
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| On the actual day Jan 9th, special friends made our annual, sometimes semi-annual trip to Carrabba's. When you walk in the aroma is fabulous... and as my grandmother use to tell me, "If you use enough butter and garlic, you can make rotten wood taste good". This is my favorite restaurant and the "rotten wood" and everything else on the menu is fabulous!!! |
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| We started the celebration with my new favorite wine, William Hill chardonnay. Coleen & Curt have been AZ friends for about 14 seasons. Their "real" home is in South Dakota. Oh yes, Curt helped us with the wine while Coleen enjoyed a prickly pear margarita!!! |
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| With a few days to spare before we headed to Houston again, I had time to get my loom partially warped... remember you have to be warped to weave... getting warped means putting all those threads on the loom in the correct order. That's it for this time!!! |
