Giant Fuzzy Heliconia

Chaz threw together a few tropicals and this big guy was just a star we had to have. The occasion for the arrangement was a dinner we hosted Saturday for my boss, his wife, and another couple from my work.

It's the first time in years I've had co-workers in the same town, so we didn't hold back. We started off with cocktails of the Sidecars that we had for the Christmas party which Chaz finished off the cooking. He made crabcakes with grilled shrimp on a tomato cream sauce for the appetizer, and the main was orange marinated grilled lamb chops over couscous with mini squashes. The dessert was one that very few of our guests get the chance to have, Kaiserschmarrn, which Chaz & I picked up from Franz. We took it over the top which would make Franzi proud. Contreau in the apple sauce, Advocaat drizzled all over the pancakes, and Amy's ice cream on top as well. We quaffed a nice Louis Martini Cab with dinner, and a light prosecco with dessert; nothing too over the top, but certainly something to remember, especially as the boss had postponed this dinner a few times in favor of some boy scout dinners and whatnot. We kept the espresso and some sweet liquors flowing so long as the conversation kept going, which it did till nearly 12:30am. Neither of us expected them to hold out so long, but the evening unfolded quite serendipitously, and this big guy witnessed it all.

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Small projects are bubbling up here and there, a website for my mom, a catalog of ornaments, some video processing, and a ton of tiny sprouts in Chaz's container garden in the sun. It's all part of a spring that flies past far too fast to truly appreciate the blanket of bluebonnets spilled along the road on the way into work.