On Saturday evening 06/09/13, Sue and I held The Great 2013 Nine Years At The Garrison Backgammon Tournament And Summer Island Coconut Chicken Feast! to celebrate my nineth year living here. We had really tough rains the last few days, and had just figured we'd get washed out as well. But, other than being a little cloudy during the morning, the sun broke out as we were finishing up with the food shopping early afternoon.

After putting the groceries away and organizing things for the party, Sue made up a batch of coconut margaritas and some crackers with red pepper jelly cream cheese, and we headed out on the deck to play some backgammon.

I played a couple of games with Tony after he arrived but then had to break out of play to work on the dinner - a really tasty island coconut chicken dish that Sue had done awhile back that we really enjoyed.

Fortunately, even though the sun had been out most of the day and had warmed up considerably from the early part of the week, the air cooled enough so running the oven and broiler (for Sue's bruschetta) didn't blast us out. And we topped off the night with the great 1981 movie Arthur with Dudley Moore.

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