It was this time of the year again when I celebrate another birthday. I am never sure just what is going to come my way for this occasion. No set traditins or family gatherings. So I was delighted when John and Angela called to say they would like to treat Elmer and I out for dinner at their favorite Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant on my day. The sun was shining, the temps not too bad, and with the change in time still light out enough that we did not have to worry about driving in the dark. (At least I did not have to worry LOL)

We started out with soup

We all chose this and it was good!

For my main meal I decided to try their Steak, which I normaly do not have when I go out like this

but it was covered in mushrooms and I wanted that.
Turned out to be well worth it. I could not eat half of what is on the plate, way too much for me, but enjoyed every mouthful.

John had alerted the staff that this was a birthday dinner, so when they brought our desert of ice cream mine had a sparkler on it and the waiters/waitresses all gathered round and sang Happy Birthday to me. I was just so tickled.

I received wishes from so many people – online, email, and long lovely phone calls. Some even surprised me as I had not expected them to do that. Made my day.

But my celebrations were not over. The next day I was invited over to my other daughter’s home for lunch. Sheilagh put on a delicious chicken salad wrap, her girls had made me a beautiful bithday card, Angela was there too, and it was party time! I finally even got my birthday cake.

Knowing that carrot cake was one of the very few kinds of cake I truly like Sheilagh had made this for me. We joked that she had better not put all the candles on as there would not be any room and a fire hazard LOL, still she had a lot on there and I had to blow twice to put them all out. All in all a great birthday, and leaves me very happy and feeling loved.

Time for me to post some updates on what has been going on in my life.

This is my eldest Grandson and I – Winter blues are getting to me. I needed company, sun and time away from this house. We had a good day so I took off and collected Angela (his Mom) to go out for a lunch. As Chris was home from work early, I collected him too and the three of us enjoyed the break – Angela took this pic for me. Yikes my hair looks bad!  It has become long and wild!  I have broken down and had it cut (March 2)- so much nicer now.

Elmer took this for me – playing in Facebook haha.

Back to earlier in Feb…….

Two days before taking this I had been out and checked the garden – nothing showing, then on the 23rd Feb Wow look what was shoing in the front beds!  I was just so tickled to see their pretty faces.

Even the bees were out enjoying them.

Then the next day – look what happened

Snow by the bucketfull, freezing temps and major winds – so strong it had covered the huge patio we have.

Here you can see the large snow flakes just coming down in the neighbors back yard.

Ahhh the next morning it was all over and the sun was out – same scene as the last – quite the difference here. Just so pretty when it is all lit up and glistening. Took a few days for it all to melt, but it has all gone now.

Here I am with Elmer and his eldest – John. As we wanted to have dinner out we asked him and Angela to join us at the ABC Restaurant. It was a couple of days before John’s birthday, and we though it was a great way to help him start his celebrations   They have a great selection on their menu, and each of us had different meals

This was mine – a Salisbury steak – yummy!

As for the rest of my time – I spend a lot of it playing in Facebook.  I have discovered that I can play all the favorite card games I ususally do when I just want to relax and at the same time get cyber dollars that I can donate to many good causes online, a thing that I have done for years elsewhere on line(and still do) with those free clicks – food for the hungry, animal causes, health services, support for cancer research, the list just goes on and I get to have fun too. So I appologise for not being in here as often as I used to, but there really is not much else of note going on to write about.

Both Elmer and I are doing well healthwise for which I am so thankfull.  I do know while he had fun digging out from all the snow when it was around, he too is longing for the days that we can get outside to work on the garden. Be a while yet. He threaghtened to go out and mow the lawn the other day when it was so pretty haha  too soon!  He has done some clean-up of the dead leaves for me but it is not enough to keep him that busy and he does not like to sit around at all, way too active a person.