Entertaining

Bartender extraordinaire

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We had hired someone to help us with our ambitious “Lotsaversary Gathering” — with 92 attending of 200 invited, but he had to cancel due to not feeling well.

We were going to have him barback, not bartend, but as it turned out our friend Fadia comfortably slipped behind the bar and actually took on bartending of her own volition!

Fadia, the bartender with a heavy pour

She had a lot to juggle but did it beautifully.

Midway into the evening I was checking in with her, and she told me she was having so much fun, asking people drinking highballs if they wanted singles or doubles, and many took her up on doubles.

It was then that I noticed that the jigger she was using was actually for a double, so she’d really been pouring doubles and “quadruples” — and into 10 oz. cups, no less!” We have little doubt that that greatly contributed to the success of the party!

Our thank-you note to her:

Thank-you card to Fadia
Thank-you sentiments to Fadia

Progress on our deck bar

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Getting excited about our new deck bar! The guy who’s building it gave us this rendering today, and it’s going to look great picking up the design of our grilling station at the other end of the deck.

Grilling station in the foreground.

Artist rendering of the bar to be built at the other end to replace that standalone one.

Here we grow again… another deck upgrade

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It’s time to replace the outdoor bar set that you can see at the far end of our deck. This one is a replacement of the exact same one that we had before it.

Instead of getting a third identical one, we’ve decided to have a nice bar added on to our deck.

This won’t be the final version, but it’s the drawing we’ve given to the builder as a starting point. It is going to be built off of that existing privacy wall, and a lot less elaborate than this one. And, it definitely will not have a TV in it!