Don turned 70 on June 17th, so we began the celebrations with a dinner party …
including a simultaneous singalong from the St Louis crew (an Ackert family tradition) …
Above the table was our gift to selves …
our six grandchildren imaginatively portrayed by artist Jill Pankey …
who we have gotten to know through our visits to the Assemblage gallery …
The table cloth then traveled with us to St Louis, where it found itself at the scene of an amazing homemade hibachi dinner …
Last, but far from least, I asked each one of my loved ones to sign the cloth (with heat-erasable pens), after which I stitched all their names with Deb’s threads …
Lest we forget (as if).
