. . this is a post from long, long ago . . .
many years ago , as a single Mom , I lived next door to a law student. He, his girlfriend, and I became very close friends. One day we were discussing plans for his upcoming birthday and asked his party request . . .
" I want to have a pool party , and a pig roast . "
She and I rolled our eyes , and said . . " we have no pool . .but the pig we can do . ." We then came up with a plan and the invitations were sent . . .
. . . . BYOP and a BOI . .
. .bring your own pool . .and a bag of ice . .
The day before his surprise party , he dug the ceremonial pit and went to pick up the pig at the meat market. While he was gone, she had 3 truck loads of sand dumped and spread in the backyard.
That entire night was a tropical setting straight out of the islands . .that night Memphis, Tn was Negril . .complete with roasting pig , tiki torches and sand between our toes . .
The next day our guests started arriving , marching up the street with plastic pools carried like canoes. Over to the side 3 ring blow-up pools were taking shape. . and the BOI piled up 3 ft tall . . two small pools were set up , one for homemade Sangria and one full of ice cold beer . .
all totaled 18 pools filled the backyard . . and were used as table/chairs and general meet and greet areas. . lawyers and housewives, designer shirts and K-Mart t-shirts sitting in the same pool . . .
It was truly a perfect party . . fun idea to get this summer off to a great start . .
btw, these are the friends that introduced me to Jimmy's music . . so many years ago . .
. . and yes, it was only the Yellow Album I heard that night . . .but before the summer was over I went to my first concert . . . Off to See the Lizard . . at Mud Island . . . and was the only person ( I think ) that knew the words to That's my Story . . . ! !
. .my other favorite memory is that I introduced BG2 to Jimmy's music . . .she went to her first concert with me . . .in 1988 . . I still have the program . .
. .her first comments were " what are they DOING with their hands ? ? " . . during Fins. . ! !
