2016 - JANUARY PLANNING MEETING

This post, 2016- January Planning Meeting, was written by Glinda/Annie in Austin for the Divas of the Dirt blog. 


January is the month we Divas of the Dirt hold our planning meeting. We've been to many local restaurants over the years and been sad to see quite a few favorites close. How I wish we could still meet at Elsi's on Burnet!

Should we try an old favorite or a new one this year? How about this - some of the well-known Austin restaurants have several locations so let's try the far NW Austin branch of long-established Kerbey Lane. Since it's popular and busy, we'd better plan on a wait for a table.

Sophia and I got there first and got our names on the list, followed quite quickly by Karla and Mattie.

With Mindy arriving at almost the same time.

We chatted while we waited and before we knew it, five Divas of the Dirt were at a long rectangular table in the middle of the restaurant.

Soon Buffy arrived and a bit later Sugar and Annie came in.

Most of us had seen each other at Mattie's New Years Eve party, but the eight of us never seem to run out of news and conversation, no matter how often we're together.

The food was delicious - my choice was a Chicken Verde omelet.

but other Divas went for the Signature Dish of Kerbey Lane - those famous Gingerbread Pancakes!

The only drawback to the restaurant was how loud it was, making it very hard to discuss setting up the 2016 meetings. We managed to get that done, but as happens so often, our ideas of what would happen in 2016 bore little resemblance to what actually happened in 2016. The first two months went as planned before the schedule rapidly disintegrated under pressure of weird Central Texas weather, health issues, strange accidents and sad losses in our extended families.

But for that day - we were together! We had a great time, and were all fired up for a new gardening year.

This post, 2016- January Planning Meeting, was written by Glinda/Annie in Austin for the Divas of the Dirt blog.