Well this past weekend was certainly a wonderful example of why Los Gatos is such a terrific town in which to be sociable…the weather was incredible, our downtown and most of our restaurants were overflowing, prom season was underway. One amazing thing about our downtown is the number of well behaved and reasonably well coiffured people we have without the necessity of the spending the literally billions of redevelopment dollars that San Jose has in order to create what amounts to an ongoing police problem in their downtown. We certainly can feel smugly justified in dividing the world up into Los Gatans and Los Gatos wannabees.
DENNISE & I have now spent seven whole or partial days doing our spring yard work. We’ve almost completed planting twenty four flats of flowers. Meanwhile, TERI HOPE tells us that her impatiens largely reseed themselves…some girls have all the luck!
NOW FOR THE WEEKLY LOS GATOS SOCIAL CLUB NEWS:
WELCOME TO MARIANNE DIRIDON. Our guest of the week last week was none other than MARIANNE DIRIDON, currently living happily ever after as an expat up on Bainbridge Island off Seattle. Marianne was down to visit her favorite (and only) grandchild. It was nice seeing both Marianne and our own SUSAN FITTS…come visit more often. In a previous life, Susan worked for both ROD DIRIDON and NORM MINETA.
MAYOR’S NIGHT OUT: Our undercover investigative reporter for The Social Club has discovered what our town’s mayors do on their night off. Here exclusively for The Los Gatos Social Club is a glimpse (DALE BRYANT, JUDY PETERSON, MANDY MAJOR & MARIANNE LUCCESE HAMILTON– you’ve all been scooped):
http://www.losgatossocialclub.org/photos.html#swing
THE LOS GATOS SOCIAL CLUB GOES TO TREVESE: I know all of you have been just dying to try Trevese (http://www.trevese.com/restaurant.html), a great new restaurant in the site of the former Place Funeral Parlor. Well thanks to executive chef/partner Michael Miller you will have the opportunity to live it up there on Wednesday evening, May 14th. Michael has invited us to dinner @Trevese with the same financial covenants we enjoy at Gardino’s…a prix fixe menu of Michael’s selection and our own wines for $28/person + a $7 tip. As my beloved departed mother would say – such a deal! Some of you may have met Michael recently when he joined us for cocktails. In spite of the fact that he is an erudite and sophisticated chef, he had actually never experienced a Famous Manhattan before. He says he is now hooked. Another Trevese/Los Gatos Social Club Connection is that our own ROBIN & GRANT SEDGWICK are the owners of the Coggeshall Mansion where Trevese is located.
LOS GATOS GOES TO THE DOGS: Some of you may have heard the buzz. On may Saturday May 17th our "Town of the Cats" officially goes to the dogs. Our mayor and social club member BARBARA SPECTOR will officially proclaim that Los Gatos will become "Los Perros for a Day." Our Grand Pooh-Bah JONATHAN KNOWLES will play master of ceremonies at this event that starts at 11:00 am on the 17th at the Old Town Shopping Center. Bring your pooch and join the fun. We shall do our civic duty and rename the club "The Los Perros Social Club" in honor of the dogs of cat town. If you do not have a pooch, your significant other can substitute.
ON A SOMEWHAT MORE SERIOUS NOTE, please take a look at the video in the link below sent to me by, of all people, MIKE LUND. Mike, otherwise known as Lumpy, runs a painting company extraordinaire which I highly recommend. I generally do NOT recommend his XXX rated emails. This one is quite an exception…worth watching, inspiring and a reason to recommit to having a very fun time in life, especially every Wednesday.
http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw
Best Regards & Happy Spring,
Peter
PS: Joke-of-the-Week – submitted by sweet and innocent ANN CALI, our own Principessa diValle di Piacere dei Cuori.
She was standing in the kitchen preparing to boil eggs for breakfast, wearing only the tee shirt that she normally slept in.
As he walked in almost awake, she turned and said softly, “You’ve got to make love to me this very moment."
His eyes lit up and he thought, “I am either still dreaming or this is my lucky day."
Without hesitation he embraced her and gave it his all --- right on the kitchen table.
Afterwards she said, “Thanks” and returned to the stove, her tee shirt still around her neck.
A little puzzled, he asked, “What was that all about?"
She explained, “The egg timer’s broken."
PSS: Michael – please buy Ann a new egg timer!!!