We interrupt this vacation to share the Hanna’s Town spring tea. Thankfully it was a great success, despite a few glitches in the preparation. Yesterday we had decorated with ‘American 250’ representation and fresh flowers. It looked beautiful!
Welcome at the entrance.
Hydrengeas
The Tea Table
My Little Drummer Boy.
Table Centerpiece
Curio Cupboard.
My Colonial Bear
Our kitchen is waiting on certification for a commercial kitchen so we did have to alter our presentations a bit. The main problem was that the caterers had been mis-information and brought the incorrect number of sandwiches. Tensely but easily solved by sending Roxane and Laura out to purchase what we needed to fix that.
We were able to plate the food and serve it efficiently and pleasantly and everyone was happy. It was a very long day – I was on my feet from 9:15am until 4:30pm. I’m not used to that and I’m feeling the effects. But as usual the ladies all put their hearts and hands into the effort and another great tea is on the books.
The little jars of honey were the favors.
The history of Tea.
Our tea ladies and servers.
Ruth hosting our guests.
Sandwiches on back plate. Scones and fruit kabobs in front.
Patriot Pie Tarts; Molasses Cookies; Queen’s Cake; Meringues.
Once I got home I washed the kitchen towels and half of the linens from the day. Then I swept out the Jeep as it was pretty dirty. Once this is posted I will grab a quick bit of food and that’s it for the day!
QUOTE of the DAY:
PEANUTS?
Tomorrow May 10th is:
Mother’s Day; Mother Ocean Day; Clean up your Room Day; National Liver and Onions Day; National Shrimp Day; National Small Business Day; National Washington Day (the state or the person???); One Day without Shoes Day; Trust your Intuition Day; World Lupus Day.
My room is quite clean! I do like shrimp. I will miss my mom and think of her tomorrow – hoping you honor your mom, too! I will, however, wear shoes. God bless…
On this date in history: 1754 First newspaper cartoon in America, a divided snake with the words “Join or Die” by Benjamin Franklin, is published in The Pennsylvania Gazette
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