Little Red Hen, May 2-4, 2003

  

 

Friday evening at the Little Red Hen in Seattle's Green Lake neighborhood, with Hiromi... Jerry & The PhilBillys holding forth...

 

Hiromi...

 

       

 

   

 

Hiromi tore up the dance floor!

 

The weekend continues...  Saturday

 

Around Freemont...

 

       

 

Bill Noonan, from Charlotte, was in town for a couple of weeks on Microsoft business. A hootenanny was called in Bill's suite at the Redmond Silver Cloud across the way from my lodge, and I brought Hiromi. Bill played a couple of his new songs, including one called "Now I Got a River." Hiromi really liked that one! Greg Whitcomb also dropped in...

 

       

 

 

 

Hiromi warmed her feet by the gas logs as Bill and I talked of Daniel Morgan's patriot victory over the British at the battle of Cowpens (near Charlotte, North Carolina) on January 17, 1781...

 

The weekend continues...  Sunday

 

Hiromi had been searching for new accommodations and on this day she found the perfect basement apartment between Green Lake and the University District, a few doors down from a log & stone home...

 

       

 

One enters the new abode through two side gates - the second being fashioned of sticks - and a backyard garden. The backyard is all Hiromi's and features a gazebo made from logs, a nearly completed small fish pool, trellises, and walls that Hiromi will soon redo with murals. Soon the garden will team with Hiromi's many flowers and plants...

       

 

Hiromi just kept saying - "this is great! This is great!"

 

       

 

       

 

On one wall an old port window was built in. What a perfect fit this place seems to be for Hiromi-san!

 

On the the way to the Little Red Hen for a country dance lesson. The sun was sinking low as we crossed Lake Washington on the 520 Floating Bridge... then from the I-5 Ship Canal Bridge we beheld an amazingly bright rainbow...

 

Country dance lesson at the Little Red Hen...

 

     

 

Jerry & the PhilBillys provided the music...

 

The fleet footed and suave Bill Noonan joined us... Hiromi showed Bill her new steps!

 

     

 

Later in the week, Thursday evening it was, we convened at Mamasan's in Bellevue for fine Japanese dining and karaoke. By request Bill did the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody," Greg provided moral support, and I brought out "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head."  Bill and I ended with a duet of the Everly Brothers' "All I Have To Do Is Dream"...  and a good time was had by all...