We interrupt this slow programming….

Saturday December 7, 2013
Sebastian Inlet State Park

 

 

to bring you an eye witness account of…..

MY BIRTHDAY!!!

 

Yes I’m behind on the blog again by a couple of days and I’ll go back and get them but today is my birthday and I have the perfect day so I want it to be posted on the day that is so perfect.  Well perfect for me anyway.

You have to understand that for me birthdays are a BIG DEAL.  I believe everyone should CELEBRATE, in the way that is most perfect for them, the fact that they were born, that they have lived however many wonderful years and are living yet another one.

 

For me it begins with…….

 

 

Sunrise OF COURSE

 

 

 

 

It sneaks in and then comes up blazing.   Just makes me want to sing so I do.  I sing my birthday song!

It’s a new day!  Yes it’s all brand new and it’s my day to start my life anew.  Another year is on my plate and I can tell it’s gonna be great!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do a beach combing walk before heading back and take a picture rather than the shells with me.

 

 

 

As I bike back to Winnona, I look up and there is a rainbow salute to my day.  Terrific!

The rest of my morning is breakfast with friends and their blogs.   Emails with birthday wishes.  Phone calls with birthday wishes. 

I’m off to a great start.

 

 

 

 

What a beach day this turns out to be!!

 

In the afternoon, I go to the ocean and set up my chair for a little reading, wave watching, beach combing.   What a day is presented to me.   In a word – perfect.

The temperature is perfect – 79.  The water is perfect – warm.  The wind is perfect -  very light.   The skies are blue, the water is blue.  The waves are perfect – BIG, white and rolling but fun to  play in.  They don’t knock us over.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We play and read and play and read and it is just the most fun.  It’s hard to leave but it’s dinner time.

 

 

What’s a birthday without great food?

 

I’m not a restaurant lover.  The food we make is much better than nearly anything I ever have out. 

And since it’s my birthday, I can have anything I want at any time I want.  House rules for your birthday.

So I choose dinner early.   I’ve worked up quite an appetite.  The menu: scalloped oysters, MY FAVORITE, and tiny brussels sprouts.  For dessert, a smaller version of the family chocolate cake. Moist chocolate cake with rich butter cream icing. I forget to take a picture of it before we mangle it but it still tastes TRIPLE YUM!!

And what’s really great is that I get to do this entire food thing again tomorrow since there are leftovers.   The cake might even go three rounds!

 

 

 

The sun goes down but the fun isn’t over yet.

 

 

 

 

Sunset time arrives and my heron buddy is there in his usual place just waiting to be photographed.

 

It’s a blazingly beautiful  sunset just like the sunrise.  Bookends on my day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since we’ve had dinner early we have plenty of time to enjoy a present Carrie sent.  She, and most of you, probably know I’m a Jane Austin fan.  I’ve read all the books, and books about the books including The Jane Austin Book Club and most recently Among the Janeites. 

In my value laden way, I pretty much have refused to go to big screen movies since they raised the price over $8 but on DVD I’ve seen all the movies and BBC productions including Becoming Jane and now Carrie has sent me a copy of The Jane Austin Book Club DVD which I have not yet seen.

My final fun activity for my birthday is to watch this with a BIG bowl of BUTTERED popcorn, a really rare treat.

 

 

My day has been a GREAT one. 
Thank you David. 
Thank you Carrie.   
Thanks to everyone who called or wrote or sent birthday wishes.
Thank you ocean waves.
Thank you weather Goddess.

 

I hope your special day, whenever it is, is as good as this one was for me.

 

Tomorrow I’ll be back to the regularly scheduled delayed look at the fun we’re having.  I’ll be back with Thursday the 5th of December (the one I WAS going to publish today) and promise to try to whiz up to the present IF I can.  Hard to do when I’m so busy having fun!!