This and That Lately

 

On April 11, we headed to a neighbor's house for our neighborhood supper club.The house is totally amazing. Mark and I were in charge of appetizers. They were having Greek night and I took hummus and veggies and pita chips and pita bread.

I also made Spanokopita triangles using this recipe. I forgot to take a picture. They were delicious.

Did I tell y'all about falling that night???

The home has a basement space that is luxurious - a full bar, a viewing room, a pool table, a sitting area, etc. I had already gone down the steps once and placed the spanokopita triangles on the designated bar. I went back up the steps to help Mark carry the basket of pita chips/pita bread and the tray of veggies. I am always moving at a fast clip . . .and I caught my toe on the leather binding on the Sisal rug and faceplanted. I caught myself on one elbow, one hand, and a little on my knees. The hand popped up a HUGE goose egg. I did not go to the ER. More on that later.

Mark had his follow up and they took off the ginormous bandage and it is a tiny little wound. Yes . . .that is a bullet on his arm. He was pranking the young adults telling them the doctor found that bullet - that did not happen.

They crammed 14 around our table a couple of Tuesdays ago. We love these people so much.

Did I show y'all these cute goodie bags? We have a TERRIBLE parking problem at our church and when you add in extra service plus extra people on Easter Sunday . . .let me just say . . .it creates an even bigger problem. I line up a shuttle van that goes to the local board of education parking lot and picks up the orchestra and/or choir members. Those folks are there for the duration of the morning so they are taking up a parking space over multiple services. If they parked off-site, we met them at the door with a goodie bag. A choir member told me that we included all of the right things this year so I took a photo!

Jump ahead to Thursday, April 23. We joined our "out to eat" Sunday School supper club at Taj India. It is now Mark's favorite restaurant. I had shrimp korma which is a rich creamy slightly spiced curry - it reminded me of a silky coconut soup with shrimp. It was delicious.

Mark ordered a much spicier dish of lamb. I can't remember the name. He LOVED it.

Mark is not in the photo and neither is Paula. I didn't do a great job. Mark was at this end of the table. Paula was directly across. Paula's husband Bill and then Mark L. and Patty. Bill and Rhonda are beside me. We were missing one couple in April. We really enjoyed this group of folks. On this night, we were witnesses to a cool connection of long ago campers/camp counselors. I love to watch connections happen.

At my high school reunion, we met the wife of one of my classmates. She is Suz of Mama Suz's Fried Pies. They have a store front in Pelham. Mark loves fried pies.

We were headed to our regular supper club (been together since 2004) and Mark told me to sign up for dessert and order pies - so I did!

They literally fried them while I waited. Mark ate a peach one as soon as I got home!

We packed enough for our supper club, along with a half gallon of ice cream, and headed out.

They have a new outdoor table. It is a solid piece of Alabama Limestone and it is gorgeous and it is not going anywhere.

The photo below is the view from their house - looking out over the city of Birmingham.

Here is one view of the table (looking away from the bluff side).

Look at this one - isn't that gorgeous? They bought a very big and very old home and totally restored it.

I saved enough pies to serve for Sunday lunch. We had our local kids over for lunch after church last week. The pies were a hit once again. I didn't eat one, but everyone said they are really delicious.

So . . .April A to Z is over. I have a couple of weeks with no schoolwork. I will still be going to work every day and hosting the young adults.

What is going on at your house lately?