Spring Equinox & the Late Birthday

I did “Book Festival Lite” this year

in order to spend Saturday and Sunday

celebrating the

Spring Equinox

and

Carrie’s February 7^th birthday

more than a month late.  J

It’s sad for parents when the kids grow up

and aren’t able to be home for their birthdays

but we just have a party the next time

she is here and

that’s just what we did.

Mother Nature showed herself in fine form

for SPRING EQUINOX

I am very glad to see the waxing of the days.

Every day now will be longer than the one before.

More time outside!

In our family, you are

King or Queen for the Day

when we celebrate your birthday.

So dinner was Carrie’s request.

Red Bean Toss.  A family favorite

(sorry it’s on the wrong side of the table

AND we didn’t take a close up.  It’s delicious)

 

And then

THE CAKE

Anyone following this blog for very long

has seen this cake in MANY incarnations

Yummy rich moist chocolate cake

with mmmm good

Butter cream icing

and LOTS of it.

The Cake Baker and his "assistant".

Licking the bowl in an her cooking Apron I made in 1982
Hand embroidered name and all.

She hadn’t quite grown into it at age 2.

 DIG those glasses Man!!.

This time the cake was a dual celebration.

Green for the Equinox and

Decorated for the birthday.

31 Best Year Yet

 But not SO many candles

And of course there were presents. 

Thankfully

she’s still just like a kid

in loving that even if it looks like

one gift

what fun to find

several others wrapped inside

But the author of the card

wasn’t paying attention

when she wrote it and it turned out

upside down

which caused

quite a bit of laughter and teasing.

Oh well……

the older we get………..

 

Cake started the party.

After which we watched a PBS special that none

of us had seen when it was shown on TV in January.

A friend had seen it and sent me the DVD

It’s entitled “Chautauqua: An American Narrative”

Chautauqua was a part of my summer

and our summers for many years. 

I was able to spend the entire “season” there

for several years just before I caught the RV bug.

It is such a special place and

SO
hard to describe but 

this Special did about as good a job as can be done I think.

Surprise!!

Guess who was on the screen close up

not once but THREE times

watching the most fantastic young pianist

Alexander Gavrylyuk.
http://www.alexandergavrylyuk.com/

IF

he’s ever anywhere

within miles of you

DON”T

pass up the chance to see this virtuoso.

 And if you get a chance to see this special,

look for me. 

J

Then it was time for games. 

Birthday girl brought out 3

and chose to play canasta

She and her father had Chocolate Stout

He beat us SOLIDLY the last time

But we got revenge and skunked the old man. 

She the first game and I the second
I know, you shouldn't beat the Birthday Girl
but all's fair in love and CANASTA.

J

Time for bed but more food and fun tomorrow……………..