Sweet that the salt and pepper shakers were kitties!
Loved 'em!
The dining room is a big, bright windowed affair...
This is what it looks like from the outside.
It has an open kitchen with your eating selection on the counter
A choice of one of three appetizers, three mains and three desserts.
Lots of fun salt and pepper shakers. Ducks seemed apropos for this pair!
Fun!
Nat and Gordon both chose a wonderful salad...
Richard started with roasted tomato soup....
I had the duck/pistachio pate for a starter. Wowza!
My main was their very own grown duck on a mushroom bread pudding and greens.
Richard had pork...
Nat and Gordon both chose the bison flank steak on an assortment of veggies.
For dessert, you serve yourself coffee or tea...
I chose the carrot cake...
...while the other three had the wild blueberry vanilla pannacotta.
All in all a fabulous meal!
Then we toured the grounds and admired their wonderful gardens.
Natalie makes friends where ever she goes.
There was a very late blooming lilac bush with a lovely swallowtail butterfly on it.
And a sweet pond beside the dining room.
On the pond was a very big swan...
...who seemed to take a liking to Natalie.
The weather was perfect...
...and we all had a grand time. A perfect way to spend my birthday!