In my announcing diary about our upcoming dinner with Angry Mouse I gave a little background on our visiting Kossack.
Please join me below for a photo recap (only 20 or so, no worries) of our WELCOME WAGON dinner.
We enjoy dining with visiting Kossacks so please let us know if you will be in the San Francisco Bay Area.
It's all about community, IMO.
Angry Mouse requested Mexican food and boy can we deliver. It was difficult to choose among the hundreds of fantastic restaurants we have here in the Bay Area.
We decided on La Fiesta Restaurant in Mountain View.
It was fantastic and the BEST mole I have ever had, I must say.
We had a great turnout, as usual and the ROAD WARRIOR award goes to sidepocket and mrs. sidepocket who drove over 200 miles yesterday round trip from Sebastapol to give a hearty welcome to Angry Mouse. Sidepocket and the Mrs. come to most of our events and they are truly a pleasure to be with, many kudos for their exuberance and dedication to our group.
I scored. The sidepockets brought me a bouquet of lilacs from their amazing farm. They are fragrant and lovely and remind me of my growing up years in rural Utah.
Their lovely fragrance has been wafting over to my workstation all day. Such an amazing beauty and fragrance that I had to write about it.
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Let me begin by informing you that Angry Mouse declined to have her photo posted. I did my photoshop duty on the first photo and then couldn't resist altering highacidity's photo with a pic of her cat. Indulge me:
Angry Mouse is super photogenic so I am a little miffed that I can't post her face.
(photos available for a small sum of cash, email me. shhhhhh...)
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Here she is ordering JUST A LITTLE BIT OF CHEESE PLEASE...
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Here are the sidepockets and sidepocket holding the photo montage he had just posted at Cheers&Jeers that morning:
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And a closeup of that photo:
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sidepocket continues to steal the show with his ceiling cat shirt:
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Highacidity (soon to be highhumidity) reaching for more margaritas:
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Here is Mr. FrugalGranny, FrugalGranny, Homogenius and Paul in Berkeley:
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Esquimaux lives 5 miles from this restaurant, he had to show up!
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The Moody's arrive, that's Moody Loner, Little Loner, Mr. FrugalGranny, FrugalGranny, Homogenius, Paul in Berkeley and Mrs. Loner
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Back at the ADULT end of the table, me (navajo) and ukiyo:
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And now for some delicious Mexican Food:
(gawd, I love refried beans, I want to marry them)
And now for the BEST MOLE IN THE WORLD!
BURP!!!! Whoa, 'scuze me. Phew. Wow.
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Paul in Berkeley playing cards with Little Loner (who was there to deliver her Girl Scout Cookie orders to us)
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ukiyo, doing what he does best, figuring out the money...
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And as usual, we held a parking lot meeting after dinner:
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You can't believe the fragrance that is floating over here right now, try to imagine:
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While I have the mic there is an event in San Francisco on April 17th that I am attending, I hope you will too.