Hosting a party for a quarter of a hundred intimate friends…

We are breaking in (I hope that's not prophetic) the garden with a party Friday night, and Sunday afternoon, which will be a sort of mini-convention, starting tonight with a dinner on the falls. Spokane Falls, that is, which should be very pretty, even in this low-water period. The Spokane is a white-water river that flows through Spokane, and one of the city's classiest restaurants has a spread of windows aimed right at it. We're supposed to have done a lake cruise, but we think the boat broke,