The view from your hospital bed

I had a chat with good old Dana " one kidney " Moseley this morning. Here on the facebook, not like we are good enough friends to pick up the phone or anything. She is doing well!!! and going home as soon as all the damn runners get out of the Piedmont Hospital driveway!
Steve is fine as well, just will be in the hospital a bit longer.

You know she will enjoy the view from home better.
Everyone send out good thoughts for a speedy recovery for the two of them

Like you have never gone on a late night Jimmy Webb binge....

GALVESTON

Wichita Lineman ( I have told yall this before, but this is the song that brought me back to the one true religion, from which I had wandered )


MacArthur Park  ( odd start, but it gets there...)

By the time I get to Phoenix

Breaking the rules.

We here at the k+b have not done the Grimaldis since Stephanie downloaded her third of fourth tennis pro's child. That the the checkered history I have with them. One million years ago when AOL ruled, the ex and I were the most hated guys on the internet for the simple joke that Stephanie was driving the Diana car. ( trust me, at the time, it was funny. )
BUT, it's a slow holiday weekend, and it IS a beautiful dress. TLo likes it more than Our Miss Cathy's. ( the powers that be WILL be checking their cards this afternoon..)
 From HUFFPO MONACO — Monaco's Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene promised each other love and fidelity in an extravagant religious wedding Saturday attended by international celebrities and royalty, bringing new allure to the tiny principality known for its luxurious casinos and as stomping ground for the rich and famous.
The Catholic service followed an intimate civil ceremony Friday, which saw Charlene officially transformed from commoner into royalty. The marriage of the 53-year-old prince and the 33-year-old Charlene Wittstock, a one-time Olympic swimmer from South Africa who is now known as Princess Charlene, ended a three-decade wait for a new princess.
The last wedding of a ruling prince in Monaco was in 1956, when Hollywood star Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III.
Saturday's ceremony was attended by guests including former James Bond actor Sir Roger Moore, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and bohemian designer Roberto Cavalli, of Italy. Thousands of Monegasque citizens cheered the proceedings while watching on large screens set up outside the palace, where both ceremonies were held.
Charlene swept along the red carpet leading into the palace on her father's arm. In her sumptuous boat neck gown by Giorgio Armani Prive, her hair pulled back in a swirling French twist and with only the lightest touch of makeup, she seemed to channel some of Grace's effortless elegance.

Princess Charlene of Monaco and Prince Albert II of Monaco during the religious ceremony of the Royal Wedding, in the main courtyard at Prince’s Palace in Monaco. The Princess is wearing an Armani Privé gown of more than 140 yards of different silks, 40,000 Swarovski crystals, 20,000 mother of pearl beads, and a 15-foot train, with a diamond spray tiara.

It rained rose petals on them that is what is on her chest. I have loved some of the things that she has worn, very few misses. The boys went off on the fit of her bust. All I can see is the fit of his jacket/tunic.

Everyone will be making compassion's with the real Royal wedding, and yes, with Princess Grace, it mattered........

 Stephanie's beautiful daughter, Princess Charlotte Casiraghi who I have never seen before, looks like she is in Armani,

 with Mr. Armani in the audience.

All the young crown heads of Europe and Naomi Campbell with billionaire Russian in tow, wanted an early Summer weekend in Monaco. While  the Cambridges rule Canada, the low key Wessexes made the wedding.

I do have one question about the wedding : Why was there a group of children from a road company of THE KING AND I following the bride up the aisle ?

MORE if you want from TLo ( very funny )and HUFFPo

One more comparison to the Cambridges, the new Princess chose to wear white to the party afterward. Again, a beautiful dress, you make the call.

The New Princess , again, in Armani Prive

PARTY PHOTOS

( the Swedens are worth looking at!! )

Blood, Sweat and Tears

An Early July Wedding 

in

Honeoye Falls, New York

How to insure a blazing hot day in the Finger Lakes of Upstate, New York ? Have Kyle cater a wedding at St. John's. 

Core k+b reader , S. Lovell I'm sure has painful memories of the infamous Rice-King wedding and that heat. All in all it was a lovely day, and the Bride was happy and satisfied , which is all that matters.

A little bit of a strange wedding, or at least reception. I was given NO guidelines or suggestions , not even a budget. The most laid back Bride in the history of time. The B&G did get a slight reading about hanging out together pre nups, but they were most nontraditional, so...

My good pal Jennifer came on board to help me out with this one, when the guest list grew from like 35 to 100ish. ( No where neat that many showed. ) Jennifer used to own a restaurant there in HF and knew some other folks that could help. It took a village to get this reception going. 

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The kick off idea for the reception was a morning tea, so I went with a cool Summer menu. Salads , salads and more salads.

• chicken salad with vidalia onions, apples and crasins. I roasted 10 whole chickens on Friday, it was, and still is good .
• basic tuna salad.. people ate A LOT of it.
• antipasto pasta salad , really, open and dump. Art hearts, marinated mushrooms, roasted red peppers,tinned olives, I usually add cheese, but I wanted to keep it lactose free in case someone wanted that, it was on the side. Then just poured on a large bottle of " brushetta Italian dressing" . Let it sit over night, so darn good!
• Fresh steamed veggies... broccoli and carrots to start off , added some haricots verts. Note to self : don't bother with complicated dishes, people love and eat up, just steamed veggies...
• baked potato salad zzzzzzzz.....
• roasted beet with grapefruit over baby arugula w/ goat cheese and roasted garlic, in a lemon vinaigrette. Off the chats good, and people ate a lot of it.
• ice cold old fashion 1950's housewife carrot salad. Carrots, pineapple tid-bits, raisins, in a honey mayo dressing. Surprisingly good!

A lot of work, many many thanks for the help from so many people. Everyone seemed to have a good time. I got many many compliments, which for small town yankees is very strange.

Glory Glory

A photo I had never seen before, sorry about the watermark, its from the facebook group " grew up in Athens " .  I think it is from the 1930's. Someone commented that the bridge was built in 1961, and it looks like the bookstore is not there. What I like about this photo is that the parking lot was still pretty much just like this , add a couple of buildings, when I was in High School, I wish I had paid more attention.

True patriot love in all thy sons command.

Lets start off with, if you are not a fan of knowing what the Duchess of Cambridge wears every second of her North American walk about , I would avoid the k+b over the next few days!

From the Canadian National Post : "Friday morning the Duchess was back on theme for Canada Day festivities, albeit not in a Canadian label. For the more formal swearing-in ceremony of 25 new citizens at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and afternoon on Parliament Hill for the Canada Day celebrations, HRH opted for a sedate ivory day dress with an asymmetrical ruffle, royally recycling the same Reiss dress she wore in the official engagement photos shot by Mario Testino. The better to show off her hat! (It’s by a Kate fave, the milliner Lock & Co’s Sylvia Fletcher, the venerable brand also worn by the Duchess at the Trooping of the Colour in June.) Fascinators, hats and elaborate headpieces are perhaps the Duchess’s one outlet of whimsy and today’s topper is no exception: cocked a bit to the side, it’s a red straw saucer of a fascinator, festooned with a handful of stiff, sculpted maple leaf cutouts that are (thankfully) just this side of Oh-Canada kitsch. It’s more that the edges are cut in the signature shape to suggest the leaf rather than all-out literal. For sparkle, she’s also wearing HM The Queen’s diamond-studded maple leaf brooch (originally presented to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on her own visit to Canada in 1939), with red pumps and a terrific fan-shaped straw clutch with tassel by London bag designer Anya Hindmarch."

A little Canada Day Perfection. I mean come on, the had all but has a moose and a hockey stick on it!!  Could not be any better.

Patriotic zillions turned out for the Cambridiges!

Rock Star.

and AND she has not even downloaded 

a future King yet.

Standing on Guard!!

HAPPY CANADA DAY, eh ?

It is Canadian 4th of July, only three days earlier and they call it Canada Day, go figure. Whereas we will get a hot dog, a little baseball, perhaps some apple pie, our good neighbours to the North get WILLIAM AND KATE!, yes, the Cambridge's are out to see their Commonwealth! 

The young Royal dazzling all of Ottawa in a just-above-the knee, figure-hugging lace dress by fashion golden boy Erdem. Beautiful dress choice aside, this was a well thought out gesture – Erdem who is based in London and shows his collections there was born in Montreal, Canada. His clothes are also tried and tested on first ladies: Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron are fans.

The Empire State Building, giving a nod to it's taller cousin to the north, the CN Tower, goes all Maple Leaf for the night, ditching last weeks fabulous rainbow!

SO much more to come, this was just a little amuse bouche!