Progressive Dinner Party

On April 14 we enjoyed a neighborhood progressive dinner, complete with wine tasting at each stop. We hosted the main course (co-hosted by the Vincents), which included grilled pork loin and pineapple, roasted rosemary potatoes and asparagus, and buttered carrots. The red wine was a 2003 Hayman & Hill Meritage, Monterey County, California Reserve Selection #38, and the white was a 2002 Beaucanon estate, Ehlers Lane, Napa Valley Chardonnay. The blended red was especially good.

Dessert at Bradys' included a very nice port, R.L.Buller & Son “Victoria Tawny” from Victoria, Australia. Excellent choice.

You may notice some new dining furniture, recently made by Amish crafstmen in southeastern Ohio. The table is actually a loaner graciously provided by Bears in the Woods (the retailer) until ours, which is running late, is ready.
This rocking chair was a gift from the Oostermans, our next-door neighbors in Alger Heights about 25 years ago. It was Mr. Oosterman's disabled brother's favorite chair, who's belt rubbed the paint off the spindles during many years of use. We have left them so in his honor.
This would be a nice place to rock our grandson, Alex, if he came for a visit. But alas, he is far away for now.