So annoying. The last few posts I made vaporized into thin air. Let's try again.

Last night we went to John's First Friday gallery opening of some of his Silk Road photographs taken on the Turkish Armenian border. They're indescribably beautiful and his printing is masterful. John is a real artist and constantly amazes me. After the opening, we all went to a great little Turkish place on 2nd and Vine and had a meal and a bunch of drinks, watched bellydancers and congratulated John on his work. A truly nice night. It's extremely heartwarming to see someone you love accomplish something wonderful and I thoroughly enjoyed feting him.

It's a big party day here - but not at our house thank heaven. I am still recovering from the kick ass home brew party we had a few weeks ago with about seventy people in attendance. The weather was perfect and we had people allover the house, on the front porch and gathered around a huge bonfire in our yard. We had a great mix of ages and peple of all sorts. People really seem to like coming to our parties - they are really freewheeling. Anyway, today we've got a Kentucky Derby Party at Billy and Susan's with some of the suspects from last night and tonight we have a Cinco de Mayo shindig and Laurel and Patrick's house a stone's throw away from our house so we'll end up walking home from there.

Tomorrow, we'll be in recovery mode and start getting ready for our trip on Tuesday.