April 28, 2019 Mrs. Lindemuth’s BD. Lunch – Shrimp and Spinach over whole wheat Spaghetti Dinner – Wenger’s Ham loaf Meatballs, corn, Cole slaw, and Sweet Potatoes at Don and Bev’s house
We woke and dressed and left Jean’s house by 10:00. We were worried about the brake lights after being warned rudely by a woman who almost ran into us last night.
Suzette went to a car parts store and bought lights. Changing the lights fixed a faulty turn signal but did nothing to repair the brake lights. The store manager helped pull the fuses to the stop light switches and declared them to “not be blown.”
That left the last and obvious cause, which was the stop light switch under the peddle that turns on the brake lights when the peddle is pushed down. Suzette bought a switch and we drove to A tire store that was open and did repairs. Suzette had looked at the video on line to see how to install he switch so when the tire store owner said it would take an hour and cost $50.00 she said,”No thank you.” Called Don, who is the handiest person we know, who had already also looked at the installation video and they decided immediately that we would drive Don’s car back to his house and he would help Suzette install the switch.
When we arrived Bev and Kathy were beginning to cook lunch and invited us to join them. Suzette and Don installed the new brake switch which required Don to lay in the driver’s seat with his legs over the seat so he could reach under the brake peddle to replace the switch while Suzette held the peddle up.
I stayed inside and de-stemmed a bowl full of fresh spinach leaves, while Bev and Kathy cooked the meal.
After we ate Don served some fancy cognac he received as a gift from a neighbor in a hand blown glass bottle shaped like a lion.
At 3:00 Suzette and I drove to Giant Supermarket where she bought six helium filled balloons and we drove to the Masonic Home, except this time we parked away from the building and carried the balloons through. The internal corridor to the bar that is named Goose and Lion after the first Tavern frequented by Masonic order members in London in the 18th century.
Suzette had called Sara’s three living brothers and her four card club members, who all showed up within their respective spouses. There were 15 or 16 of us in all.
We gathered a dozen chairs around three or four tables pulled together and Suzette ran a tab with the bar and ordered five appetizer plates of mushroom stuffed phyllo cups.
The party was a huge success. We sang happy birthday and everyone talked to each other as we sipped our drinks. It was really fun. Especially since all of Sara’s living siblings joined us.
After the cocktail party at 6:00 Suzette made us leave to return to Don and Bev’s for dinner.
Bev and Kathy stayed behind to cook dinner. Soon after we arrived the food was ready. It was a typical Pennsylvania Dutch meal, which means German food was served: Ham loaf meatballs, Max and cheese, creamed corn, baked sweet potatoes, and Cole slaw.
When I asked who made the Cole slaw, which I liked very much, Bev told me that everything except the sweet potatoes had been bought at Wenger’s Meat Market. Wenger’s is the best traditional German Meat Market in Elizabethtown. It makes a wonderful ham loaf, and apparently lots of other dishes.
Don opened two really good bottles of wine, a 2019 Berlinger Founders Estate Cabernet Sauvignon and a Sangiovese from a winery in Mendocino County.
There was a beautifully decorated cake sitting on the table in front of Mrs. Lindemuth. After dinner coffee was made we ate slices of cake with vanilla ice cream and raspberry sherbet and coffee for those who wanted. The filling between the two layers of the cake was raspberry.
We enjoyed dinner and afterward Jeff and Kathy took Mrs. Lindemuth back to her apartment at Masonic Home.
At 8:30 we said goodbye to everyone and drove back to Jean’s house in Ephrada and watched Masterpiece Theatre episodes of Les Miserables and Unforgotten.
Suzette and Jean then went to sleep and I blogged.
Bon Appetit
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