A Question of Connectivity

I tried, about four times, Sunday, to post on here. At one point we were having internet problems. And then, later, the Blogger folks were having some issues. I hope none of you were worrying that the brunch had ended in knives, tears, or technology-thievery.

Brunch, by the way, turned out to be quite nice. We had three couples join us (and - as usual - had food for at least twice as many), and - keeping with my recent stretch of events - we were ready about 15 minutes later than we wanted to be.

This meant that, yesterday, we had 4 out of 6 of our guests here while we were still messing about (literally - it was a mess) in the kitchen. Luckily, it's late spring and they all had commented in the past couple of weeks that they wanted excuses to see our backyard plantings. So we sent them outside for a bit, finished up the kitchen, and were all set to go.

Basically, everyone got here around eleven o'clock (give or take) and left around 1: 30. And although we ended up in multiple smaller groups, I don't think I heard a lapse in conversation the entire time.

OH. And we got to use some new dishes that we've picked up in the past month. A serving bowl from a set of "India Tree" china Christopher picked up; a couple of nifty small trays made by Russell Wright (apparently that's a good thing - and they're so cool); and a nifty little clear glass "bowl" which looks, basically, like an open Ziploc bag (which we put out some chocolates in).

Alright, so much of the rest of the afternoon Christopher and I spent a lot of quiet time in disparate rooms, but there was something really nice about having first had that burst of neighborly hosting in the morning.

It's nice to have my computer connecting to everything, again, too, so that I connect with all of you 'net neighbors.