Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt : Garden Party!

Wow!  What a successful first book club meeting!  Thanks to everyone who participated and made for a great afternoon.  So sorry to those of you who couldn't make this month's meeting.  Jennifer H. was chosen from the bucket to select next month's book.  Stay tuned.  We also made the decision that we are going to stay a month ahead in the book selections.  We chose another name, Rhoda R.  At next month's meeting, Rhoda will have two books with her that she is interested in reading. (She assures us the words "heaving bosoms" will be one, if not both, books.)  We will then take a vote as to which of those two books we will be reading.  The date of next month's meeting is still undetermined.

Now for some highlights of this month's meeting:

We had a beautiful, cool summer day to enjoy the club meeting out on my patio!  (Yes, those are tiaras on the table- everyone got to feel like a lady, prom queen, beauty pageant winner today!)  Lisa also added some bling and provided us with frilly necklaces!

I tried my hand at making Long Island Iced Teas.  After Rhoda asked "Are these supposed to taste like this?" we toned them down by mixing half "tea" and half lemonade.  We created the Long Island Palmer!  Thanks to Lisa, we were able to have umbrellas in our drinks!

Next we had a whole spread of garden party food.  Bruschetta pizza, watermelon, shrimp puffs, and "pimento" cheese sandwiches.  Thanks to Lynanne for supplying the sandwiches...we will be your guinea pigs for recipes like that any time!

A special thank you to Beth Hoffman for checking in on us and commenting on the blog.  I hope we did your book justice with our little gathering!

Just a great afternoon talking books....and lots of other things too!  Thanks ladies, see you next time!