50 between Us.....

          It's about time, it's about space, it's about four humans in the strangest place.  Now mind you, yawl' had to be there, a pinch between the cheek and gum, but these two sparkling couples,

who had jumped thru the hoops of life, rang the accompanying bells and whistles, and even had rang the onslaught of the cultural gongs, were humbled by Aunt Glo's gift to them to celebrate 25 years of towing the line, while traveling the "Highways and Biways" of sweet surrender called "Marriage".

        For a week, Gigi and Steven, doing some Black Ops work, under the guise of the ethereal keyboard, went back and forth, to and fro, as to where to bring to fruition their culinary adventure. Finally

 just before D-Day, on the beaches of Normandy, kitty corner to Colleen and Abbie Ct., they back peddled into going to "Flavor", to party down with their plethora of good times and fond memories.

          A lot of chatter ensued about the life and times of old living quarters, including an old milking shed, that one set of parents had to ask "Are there any Guns in the House?", when they dropped

 their kids off for the Day.  Steven told the experience of Rio Nido's Rib Buffet when they lived on Canyon Seven, and when they lived above a Childcare Center in Sebastopol, where they experienced the

 89' quake during the World Series between the A's and the Giants.  Gigi and Zane talked about their 500 square foot shack, and Joyce recalled the day the Earth stood still, when the UF0 hovered

over their Sebastopol home.  How in the world had these so diverse couples end up on a T-Intersection Cul-De-Sac down the street from each other in the hamlet of Windsor, California?

          The two appetizers that were catered out to our table were Pork wontons in an Asian broth, and Braised Figs, filled with Gorgonzola Cheese, laid on a bed of Procuitto .   We followed those beginnings with Chicken Breasts on a bed of White Beans, paired with some beef, Alaskan Cod with Jumbo Prawns, some Housemade Fetticinni and Seafood, and some Chicken filled Raviolis.  While we were spending some quality time chatting with our Waitress, it came to pass that she knew Joyce from Mattie Washburn, that we were celebrating our 25th wedding anniversaries, for a total of 50 years of married bliss.  Words somehow convey the depth of experience and to our suprise, out from the Din of the kitchen came two wonderful desserts, in honor of our accomplishment.  Our first delicate dessert was a Creme Brulee filled with blueberries with a carmel swirl, along side some chocolate mousse.  So went the dueling Marriages on the Saturday Night of our lives...just like, I suppose the proverbial Sand thru the Hourglass or here's Mud in your eye. This then, is the Four of Us, teetering on the brink between embellishment and humanity, fill with the nuances of not just the culinary chicanery flavor profiles of the day, but the decades of purient interests and shared travels we had indoctrinated our satiated lives with, Child