Running a little late today posting my weekly blog entry. Traveling. With too much to do before I left. In fact, I hear I left the chicken house door open by mistake, and now my last two chickens have been killed by a beastie. Or maybe a pair of beasties. I am sorry because they were such remarkable layers. Every day for years. I will try to find some like them before the grandchildren show up this summer, since they are all really into gathering eggs. I give thanks for those wonderful hens, as I told them every night except two nights ago.
For today I have had a request to post additional photos from the 80th birthday party, so I am going to try to do just that. This was the party I arrived at late because of getting a flat tire on the way over. Four generations of the neighbors-who-treat-me-like-family. I wasn't there specifically to take photos, but I can never resist taking a few. I am including a couple which are not perfect technically speaking, but give a flavor of things nonetheless. Actually, many of my photos are not technically perfect, and I rarely use Photoshop. I think it is just an obsession of mine to show what I see and share what I can, especially in a situation like this where the lighting was tricky and the place was crowded, etc. and I am simply enjoying the occasion.
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| This is an overall view from when I first arrived. People standing up are filling a plate! The birthday girl, June, is front and center. |
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| the birthday cake, made by June's niece, Vivian |
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| This is the best I could do for Sandy that afternoon, but I wanted to include it because June is her mother, |
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| and Diana, who lives in Michigan, is Sandy's older sister. |
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| blowing out the candles on the cake |
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| I like this photo of Gayle with the hanging balloon. |
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| June and Vernie, let's see, they are sisters-in-law. Vernie has since passed away, and we were all at the visitation and/or the funeral last week. It is always so hard to lose a close family member. |
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| June's son, Billy |
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| Vernie's daughter, Darlene, and her husband, Eddie |
I hope this does give a flavor of the party, which was lovely and delicious and generous. If anyone should want a photo removed from this photo story, please just let me know. I am always clear that I have privacy concerns, so I don't ever want anyone to be uncomfortable about a photo of him or her that is out there. Thank you all, and my apologies for not getting more decent photos of the youngest generation!
Sorry about your chickens. They were good'ns. Hope you do find more. Good exercise going back & forth checking. Got a pkg in mail today. Silly, the dress. Did you wear it? No note. The pics, many thanks! xoxo
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