Two weeks ago My French Friend Janou invited the Real Housewives of Hope and Montana to her home for lunch.

A French lunch. On a deck overlooking the lake.

Tres manifique!

I’ve never watched any of the Real Housewives shows, but I do know that our group is not at all like those catty drama queens I’ve seen on commercials.

Don’t we look like a lot of fun?

MFFJ created an amazing six-course French-inspired menu.

One of the highlights was the first course, a casserole of sliced tomatoes and herbs baked in cream. I wish I had taken a picture.

September is the Social Season around here. Grandchildren are back in school. Company has returned home. Gardens no longer require care. Fruit needs to be processed–there are plums and pears and apples galore–but we do that in our own time and at our own pace. Sometimes we are forced to share with the bears and the deer.

I have always loved September.

And our lunches together grow more and more special.

Merci beaucoup, MFFJ!!!