Hangin' out at Mabry House

Flaming Baked Alaska prepared tableside at Mabry House

Paul L. Schuetze celebrates his 67th birthday

Celebrating Billy and Patti Guin's 10th wedding anniversary at the Chef's Table: John Frazier (left) Marti and Jim McMichael, Patti and Billy, Claude and Jan Bookter, Alice Frazier and me.

Ben and Stephanie James toast their second wedding anniversary.

Happy Birthday, Paul, Happy Birthday to you!

So we celebrated Paul’s 67th birthday Friday at The Mabry House.

For dessert, a flaming Baked Alaska prepared tableside! Very dramatic. Very good. (I always judge baked Alaskas by one I had at a French restaurant on the courtyard in Monterrey, Mexico!)

It was a celebratory evening, this Friday at Mabry House. (I’ve posted some pictures that record it.)

At a table back of us, Ben and Stephanie James were toasting their second wedding anniversary.

At the Chef’s Table in the kitchen, Billy and Patti Guin observed their 10th wedding anniversary.

At their table were Jim and Marti McMichael, Claude and Jan Bookter and John and Alice

Frazier.

And, in another room, Minden resident Jane Rogers, surrounded by her family, turned 60. With her: hubby James Rogers and children Dr. Doug and Amy Talley of Shreveport, Matthew and Tafta Rogers of Bossier City and Blake Rogers of Minden. (Doug is our dentist and sent Paul a bottle of wine! Thank you, Doug. It made the evening memorable.)

So people were table hopping and toasting. Even strangers were wishing people "Happy! Happy!"