PCWNC Celebration of Women Week Continues, Red Hat High Tea

Wednesday, March 9, 2011
We continued onward and upward with our Celebration of Women Week here in Weatherford, Texas with a dozen of us meeting at The Olive Garden for lunch. This restaurant is fairly new to Weatherford and I know Doug and I were excited to see one open here.

The food was, for the most part, delicious. I did hear some rumblings from a couple of the girls because the gnocchi soup had only one or two dumplings and one or two pieces of chicken in it. We surmised that maybe they were getting low on this particular kind of soup.

Several planned to go to a movie afterward and our waitress was taking an unusual amount of time getting our checks to us. When they were finally delivered, apparently her helper had also rung up checks and it became a quagmire of a problem. The end result is that the manager of The Olive Garden told all of us that our meal was on the house and that we could just leave. We were, to say the least, incredulous, but we all left in high spirits. See what the rest of you missed by not coming to lunch!

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Thursday, March 10, 2011
As area Ambassador for the National Red Hat Society, I invited a newly formed chapter from Azle, Texas to our home for high tea to celebrate their new chapter, Les Angels' Purpel'. Queen Rowdy Red is their leader and a lovely one, she is.

We all had fun in my hat room trying on hats and picking out one to wear to the tea. One lady even picked out a red boa to complete her ensemble.

First we enjoyed apricot scones with Devonshire Cream and apricot jam, which went well with our tea. The next course was asparagus spears wrapped in prosciutto laden with Boursin cheese, cucumber tea sandwiches and Kalamata Olives. Bonnet Tea Chicken Cranberry Sandwiches were a big hit. For dessert was Cornflake Macaroons, blueberry muffins and chocolate wafer cookies. Incidentally, the recipes for this tea came from my Red Hat Society Cookbook. They have a complete section just on tea time.

Of course, the tea was constantly refreshed as we laughed and talked about many things including how we became members and I gave more history on the founding of the Red Hat Society. Each member received her place card as a favor (a colorful envelope downloaded from Hatquarters, containing a tea bag). They also received their tea cup and saucer as a momento.

Thanks to my husband, Doug, for his able photography of our event.

This is all I have to say for now.

PCWNC Celebration of Women Week

Monday, March 7, 2011
We got off to a great start with over 20 of us showing up at the Cracker Barrel Restaurant for breakfast and it was delicious. Charl Roberson does a great job of chairing this group and it's always fun when so many more show up for special events like Celebration of Women Week.
I had pancakes covered with apples and sauce and bacon. I didn't pay much attention to what others were eating because I was starved since I'm used to eating earlier when I'm at home. The coffee and conversation was great too. You can probably see by the photos that everyone was having a great time.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Continuing Celebration of Women Week, we played "Mardi Gras" bingo and enjoyed a potluck luncheon at the Aledo, Texas Community Center. The decorations were all in purple, gold and green Mardi Gras colors and, thanks to Donna Caudle, everyone had beads to wear.
Alicia Pittman was in charge of this event and she had the help of a great "crewe" (If you've ever been to New Orleans, you know what a crewe is.). Bingo prizes were outstanding, food was as delicious as it always is when these ladies cook. One thing we do have in PCWNC is a group of excellent cooks and we even have our own published cookbook to prove it!

Yours truly got into the spirit of things with the wearing of a few feathers and such. We had several newcomers who appeared to enjoy themselves, hopefully well enough that they will consider joining us permanently.
This is all I have to say for now.

Proclamation for Celebration of Women Week

Monday, February 28, 2011
President Dottie Mills of Parker County Women's & Newcomers' Club had a conflict and could not attend this event at the Weatherford, Texas court house on the square. I stood in for her along with Joan Shaw and Dale Burns.
Judge Mark Riley is ill and Judge Pro Tem George A. Conley of the Commissioners Court issued the proclamation officially making the week of March 7-11, 2011 "Parker County Women's and Newcomers' Week", which coincides with "Celebration of Women" festivities all week long in Weatherford.
The Commissioners Court was crowded so quite a number of people were exposed to the information on the PCWNC. Who knows? Maybe we'll get some new members out of it!

Thanks to Doug Kerr for taking shots of the event.

This is all I have to say for now.

Red Hat Breakfast at IHOP

February 23, 2011
We have really been busy this month with Red Hat events, but they are always so much fun! Several members are going on a Red Hat cruise this month so we hurried up and put this together so those of us left behind wouldn't feel too left out. The IHOP always does a great job for breakfast and I don't think anyone was disappointed in their food. Everyone looked spiffy in their red and purple and took part in good conversation and laughter.

We will all be waiting to hear about the Red Hat adventures on the Caribbean Cruise.

This is all I have to say for now.

Red Hat Valentine Party, Theater Off the Square Production

Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The Wild West Women of Weatherford, Texas got together at Queen Of Gaudy Gabigail's home in her upstairs Red Hat party room for lunch and exchanging Valentines on February 16, 2011. We brought "white elephant" gifts and played the game "Left & Right". Since we didn't have something to read with a Valentine theme, Carla Kerr read a Christmas story about the Wright family and their were a lot of the words "Wright, right and left" in the story. The object is to pass the gift you are holding around the circle according the the reader's pronouncement of "right or left." It was a lot of fun and the gifts were really quite lovely.
Joyce Bruton, as usual, made a gorgeous Valentine Cake for the occasion and the food was delightful as always with this group.

One of the gals got really brave and showed off her celtic cross tattoo. (See Photos)

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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Doug and I, my son Russ and wife Kelley went together to see "Til Beth Do Us Part", a very funny Jones Hope Wooten comedy about relationships at Theater Off The Square in Weatherford, Texas. However, before the theater, we went to Whistle Hill Cafe first to enjoy a delicious lunch making it a well rounded Sunday.
The actors were quite good in their roles and had excellent comedic timing.

This is all I have to say for now.