2024 Saturday — Dinner Party

Tonight our new friends included us in their dinner party. They had eight people, including the two of them, around their dining table -- three educators … two are retired; one retired air traffic controller; one retired State Park ranger; one retired pastor; one retired military man (who is still working); and another retired person who currently volunteers at the MB police department, used to be a seasonal Park Ranger on the East coast (and most likely held many other interesting positions that I did not learn about).

The conversation never lulled; we circled the globe at least once, maybe twice. One of us grew-up in San Clemente, two in Albuquerque, two in the Circle City; the others I’m not sure because I think they moved a lot (one went to three different schools in 5th grade). Seven of us currently attend the same church. One is not a church attender, but surfs with the host of our party (but exited first because he was leaving this morning at six o’clock to ride his motorcycle to Oregon to work on a house for about a week before returning to the Central Coast).

Our host & hostess's home is a delight to see with tall gabled ceilings, painted with a palette of ocean colors and decorated with seashore treasures and lots of other interesting items and art. The kitchen is enormous and flowed into the living room. A designer would say “a great room.” Two guest bedrooms one decorated for the thrill of grandkids — resembles under the water and deep in the ocean. The other is furnished with the hostess's parents’ bedroom furniture and her grandmother’s wedding dress displayed on the wall in a specially built wooden and glass case. Each guest room has a large and comfortable bathroom with beautiful walk-in shower. Tall ceilings are throughout the house.

Their backyard is full of life with foliage and flowers thriving everywhere and patio chairs inviting long leisurely visits. Our host's three car garage stole Mr. Fun's attention; the older Porsche parked in it added to the mystic.

We gathered at the tall table to enjoy a delicious and nourishing meal. The decoration of lives sitting and dining and conversing around the table had the fingerprints of the Master Designer . . . a living painting, a mural, appeared from the pigment of each of our lives. Table fellowship is enormously meaningful. This was an evening these two from Funville will savor for a very long time.

From California’s Central Coast,
Rosie (& Mr. Fun), aka Carol
and Chloe & Mitzi too!