So this morning Kelly and I gathered up a few items for the day and set off to Sunday School. Our lesson was about being happy/joyful while we wait on God’s direction. (Ecclesiastes 3:11) We made a list of that make us happy so we can think about them when we are having trouble being joyful!
But that’s for tomorrow! I will recount the day at Hanna’s Town yesterday, as I spent the whole day with a group of lovely, talented, hard-working ladies as we put together the Spring Victorian Tea. The day started a little after 9am when we checked all the tables and made sure they were set. Becky did the decorations and she always uses fresh flowers. So delicate and appropriate.
Paper cone with sprigs of purple flowers
Clear twinkle lights in pink tulle
Extra tea cups
Lillian, Roxanne, and Michael were the tea crew – they made the spiced, made-to-order hot tea. Michael is a great help, making trips back and forth to the kitchen for water and requests.
The menu is always decided ahead of time, and then volunteers step up to make or bring all the food. By about 10am we began working on making sandwiches, plating the food, and organizing the process.
Sandwiches: Cucumber, Pimento, Egg Salad Croissant, Chicken Salad
Sweets: Almond Pound Cake (my favorite), Tea pot iced sugar cookies, Lemmon Spritz, Linzer Cookies
Scones with Lemon Curd, Strawberry Jam, and Devonshire Cream
Fruit Skewers (with gooseberries!)
The servers, Deb, Carol, Cathy, and Janice, poured the tea from delicate tea pots and made sure the plates were in the tiers on the tables. The rest of us – scullery (kitchen help) – stayed behind closed doors, plating the food in lovely arrangements and seeing that everyone got to sample all the food.
We had two seatings – one at 11:30am and one at 2pm. There can be 26 at each seatings. Everyone invests a lot of themselves to make the teas a success, and this one was! We received (as a group) so many compliments. The food is always delicious and the atmosphere is delightful. It’s a big job setting up, serving, cleaning up, and then starting again. But it’s mostly a labor of love and it’s a great feeling of accomplishment when we are done at 4:30pm. I was glad to get home and unwind.
BUT — Kelly got here around 5:15pm and we set about our first task: She needed some perennials to plant at their 4H headquarters. So we dug three boxes of plants. Glad we did that yesterday as it would have been wet to do it today!
After a supper of grilled cheese made with homemade bread and cream of potato soup we put together a pile of binders for a 4H project about threes and leaves of West Virginia. We got all but two of them done. We watched North to Home while we worked – she had never seen it. It’s actually a favorite of mine.
So that’s it for today – tonight we’ll finish the last two binders and try not to do much.
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TOMORROW May 8th is:
National Student Nurse Day; National Thalassemia Day; National Women’s Checkup Day; National Coconut Cream Pie Day; World Ovarian Cancer Day; Time of Remembrance & Reconciliation; National Have a Coke Day; World Red Cross Day.
Have a Coke! And God bless us, every one!
(TOMORROW I WILL RECAP OUR LIGONIER MUSEUM DAY!)
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