Orange Tulips, Two Luncheons

It started with a vase of orange tulips

For I was having company for luncheon

You may seen them first 

In the breakfast room where they graced my Sunday tea table

But they weren't meant for the breakfast room nor for tea

They were for the dining room

And lunch!

On Tuesday . . .

It was the Lunch Bunch

Four of us

The tulips in the middle

A small "tea" cloth on the table

And my beloved blue and white

The tea cloth was bought in the Azores when we sailed across the Atlantic

a few years ago

It's workmanship is superb!

A tea cloth because this year I'm treating

The Lunch Bunch

To Tea Room Lunches

Of course, everyone who dines at Linderhof

gets a remembrance menu to take home

And on Wednesday,

I had five for lunch

Ladies as well

But a bit more "elegant"

Dining room, the way my mother would entertain elegant

And my grandmother's Noritake

Such an elegant china pattern, Marcasite

A Quaker Lace Cloth covering the whole table

And a menu, of course

With orange tulips to echo the centerpiece tulips

When the house is clean, back to back parties are a cinch.

I even had time to attend Bible Study Wednesday morning!

It's cold on the prairie this week

(after an almost balmy Monday)

The dogs are usually banned from the house 

when we have ladies for lunch

And Dolly was

But Doogie doesn't have all that much hair

And so he stayed inside.

I must admit he was mostly a gentleman

Until he decided that he needed food, too

First he was on my right side . . . 

And then on my left!

And not getting anything "good", he decided to take his dish in the living room

to remind anyone that it was empty!

It was two fun luncheons and I did use some of the same food for both (the salad, the cake) but that's just being smart!

The best thing is, however, that there was enough left that dinner was a replay of lunch!    And since Husband Jim didn't have it the first go-round, he didn't mind it the second!

It's Thursday and I'm joining Susan at Between Naps On the Porch for Tablescape Thursday and Cuisine Kathleen for Lets Dish.