It was a swell party, and thank you all

It's been just about a week since our annual new wine / puttanesca bash. By finger count maestro Guido fed 90 adults (and a gaggle of children) the world's best puttanesca, and we went through about 10 gallons of our 2006 Zin and our 2007 Sangiovese (bottled the morning of the party) and a smidgen of 2007 Barbera, older bottles from B's stash, a semi-smidge of the 2008 Cab S., and some store-bought white, all before Juju Pongo's Love Balm (lemon and sage) made the scene with another concoction or two. We had a nice tent on the grass, but the patio was exposed and when the rains came for real P saved the day with some tarps snagged from Bar Toto and rigged by guests on the roof, hanging from windows, and monkeying off the arbor (like McGyver, niece T said).

Dave R brought a piano. He kept saying, "I brought a piano," and I, being me, really assumed he had brought either a little kiddie wooden tinkly piano or maybe something to put on his lap, but, No, he schlepped a big honkin keyboard with him that came out with some guitars after the rain and into the dark.

Book arts (and Booklab) master Craig Jensen was our super duper surprise guest - coincidentally at the Brooklyn Museum that afternoon (links when I get off the plane and to a computer), direct from I'll 'old Texas. (Juju, if we didn't have your love balm, we would have missed you more than we could bear.)

We've gotten some nice notes from folks who were there. My favorite was from a musician who's work I've loved for years. He wrote Lori to say thanks, and Lori showed me the note, and all I could say was, M was at our party? Really? No one introduced me to him!

Thanks, all. Let's do it again!
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