Saturday, February 8

My first gift of the day was the delivery of this beautiful bouquet of flowers from Clair (my brother) and Kate.

They were beautiful – and stayed that way until my “real” birthday celebration the following weekend.

Thank you! Thank you!

Our grandson Josiah stopped in to give me a birthday hug, and Cerwin took a great picture of us, but I accidentally deleted it this morning when preparing these pictures.

Of course it was one of those rare times that I didn’t save a picture twice when taking it off of the camera card. I even tried rescuing it from the camera card. I think it is the only one that didn’t show up in the rescue file…and there were some from 2013.

Roy and Deb’s gift to me was dinner at Dienner’s Country Restaurant, Ronks.

I thought Roy looked different, but couldn’t figure out what it was, and didn’t say anything. I learned later that he shaved his beard and mustache.

They were surprised that neither Cerwin nor I noticed.

I chose the buffet, because it had some of my favorite foods: buttered noodles, Harvard beets, fried chicken, potato filling, shrimp, and mashed potatoes. Oh, yum!

Deb gave me a bag of goodies: two home-made meals, candy, a soup mixture, coffee, tea, juice, mints, and cookies.