Someone Celebrates a Birthday

Yesterday we celebrated the anniversary of Agnes's 25th birthday. The weather was beautiful, the company excellent, the dinner great, and a good time was had by all. Here are the pictures ...

You have to start, of course, with champagne out on the deck under the trees...

This is used by the happy husband (that would be me) to toast his lovely wife, the lady of the hour ...

Our friend Nadja joined us to help celebrate ...

Dinner was grilled steaks dredged in chopped herbs mixed with olive oil, parsley-tossed multi-colored little potatoes (I'd never seen a purple potato before, but they're quite tasty), asparagus with shallots, and a nice Merlot ...

Nadja made the dessert - I thought the smiling raspberry heart was a nice touch ... as did Agnes ...

It was a very nice day, and we all had a great time. It's good we had such a nice dinner and a chance to relax, because today we visit the local grandchildren, and will need all the stored energy we can muster.

I hope you are having a good weekend as well, because you never know how the coming week is going to be, particularly in an election year.

Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo