I’ll be awaiting your presents by the post, so do be prompt.
I’m kidding. I’m going to spend the day wandering around with Mr. DJ, and I hope everyone here does something equally cool. Go out, gather an adventure, and then come back here and we’ll compare notes.
Oh, but before you go, do enjoy these photos, sent by Bro. ChrisB. Aren’t they fabulous?
Now, don’t tarry. Go outside! Have adventures!
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How cool! I’m intrigued…will sign up and probably spend far, far too much time on that website.
51…well first off you look much, much younger than that. Secondly, is Mr. DJ going to actually put 51 candles (52-an extra one for good luck) on your cake? Good thing he’s a firefighter!
Funny! The year he turned 40, I think, I loaded up a cake and nearly set a curtain on fire. No. We practice fire safety here. We use one BIG candle to signify the multiple years we’ve lived. It’s just safer that way.
What kind of cake is your favorite for your birthday? If you go for an ice cream cake, one candle is a good choice! I like yellow cake with light, chocolate frosting. However, one of these days, I’d like to try a coconut cake.
When you’re ready to try, I have the perfect coconut cake recipe. My favorite is German chocolate and I’ve yet to learn to make the icing. Looking back (it’s Sunday as I write this) I didn’t get a cake. I didn’t miss one, either. I never even thought about it. We went to Block Island and hung out all day and now we’re just knocking around here. It’s been a great weekend. Weirdly, if I hadn’t made Mr. DJ a cake (or pie, as I did this year), I’d feel bad, but I didn’t miss it. I should probably ease up on making him pastries.
What I meant to say (I hit “enter” too soon) was that if it isn’t a big deal to me, it just might not be for him. Onward!
Happy Birthday!
Have a fun day.
Beautiful collection of photos.
Thanks ChrisB.
They look like dreams to me. And thankee.
HAPPY Birthday!!
Have a great one, Susan, and thanks for this blog!
Thanks for being a part of it! Now I know how to get loads of attention: Announce it’s your birthday and then go away. You come back? There’s a party going on in your honor!
Hey, everybody! Today’s my birthday, too!
I’ll eat a cupcake today in your honor.
Happy Birthday! I’m so glad to know you. YOU gave ME a gift with your book. It must have been my unbirthday.
Every day is a birthday in DJ Land! You give me a gift with your blog, and every time you comment here. Gosh. When did I get so mushy?
Enjoyed the photos, as I was born in 1942. I sent the link to my mother, who turns 90 in three weeks.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRO. JAY’S MOM!!!! 90. That’s something!
Have a Happy Happy Happy day you youngster
That’s it. From here on, I’m only going to correspond with people who call me “youngster.”
In my first newspaper job, they called me “kid.” The chances of that ever happening again are slim, unless I go hang out with 90-year-olds. Hey! Wonder if Bro. Jay’s mom will be my friend?
There are at least a few of us here who can call you kid or youngster. Lucky you!
Let’s see — when I was 51, I got a settlement resulting from My Big Crash, and I used a chunk of that for a big down-payment on a little house. I guess that’s when I finally got a small taste of being a grown-up. I’m still not a complete grown-up, nor do I necessarily want to achieve that status, but the combo of age and mortgage-ownership certainly tip me in that direction.
Enjoy your day — official wish sent via other medium.
MWAH! Can I ask how long it took you get that settlement, from that awful crash? I have a relative who’s waiting on one and there have been continuances and headaches and heartaches. I know each case is different, but whew.
It took about a year. If there were headaches, my tenacious lawyer was the one who suffered them.
Wow. I am seeing the court system up close and it really is like watching sausage being made.
Amazing pics. Wow.
Couple of comments: I don’t know if it’s poverty or hard work or most peoples’ diets or what, but notice how slim most of the people are?
Also: Homesteader and his family? Shouldn’t that be homesteaders and their family? Oh right, she was probably just a mother….
Too true, that last part. And yes. The people — some of them — looked downright gaunt.
Pie! You must have a birthday pie! In our house a cake may be nice but we wait for that special pie. Pecan for me, Mince for my sister, Custard for my Dad, Apple for Mr. Sherry, Blueberry for son. It goes on. Name a pie and I’ll deliver it! And I don’t work all that far from your day job!
Do you make your own pies? Have you ever had grape pie? I had it once and it was wonderful.
Yes Jac I do make my own. Pies and pie crust are my mother’s legacy to me!! Among lots of other good things. I’d take a pie over cake in a NY minute.
I never had a grape pie but it sounds great. I have a hard time knowing which I like best. For Son’s b-day when he turned 21 I made 8 pies and we brought them up to his summer job in NW CT and fed the whole kitchen crew where he was working.
We knew it wouldn’t be long before we talked about food, right? Here’s my dilemma. Before Grandma Marrs went to join the Choir Immortal (which must be a stretch because she couldn’t carry a tune in a wash bucket), she taught my son how to make pie crusts. She did not teach me, because when I was a girl she was always trying to teach me how to cook and I was always scampering away. I can make pie, but not crust. Any one? A little help?
What’s a grape pie? It sounds wonderful.
Oronoke Orchards Deep Dish frozen pie crust works for me.
I just really wanna learn how to make my own. My grandmother’s was fabulous. All I know is she used Crisco.
I love pie as well, but, as Jim Gaffigan said, “Put candles on a cake, someone’s having a birthday. Put candles on a pie, someone’s drunk in the kitchen!”
Hey, I put candles on an uncooked cabbage once because it meant something at the time…. Do I remember what that was? No, alas, but I wasn’t drunk then or now!
If your pie is anything like your cookies: Pecan. But you don’t have to, I promise. I’m a fan of pie, much more than cake. I have this lemon custard one now that I will eat whole.
“I have this lemon custard one now that I will eat whole.”
Wait — are YOU my long-lost twin? Nah, couldn’t be, you’re too young.
It was a long and difficult delivery? This is a really easy pie and I made it for Mr. DJ’s birthday and then ate about three-quarters of it, myself. Graham-cracker crust? That one?
I was thinking more about eating it whole. Yum.
Good call.
Just a kid, you are. :)
Enjoy …
MWAH!
thanks for getting born! it makes the world a better place!
Agree. But I think her Mom and Dad had something to do with her being born, too.
Happy birthday ma’am! Hope you have an awesome birthday, with your awesome self. :)
Susan, Happy birthday!! Thank you for being such an inspiration…your Nashville friend, Claire
In honor of your birthday I am enclosing a link to a skit from “The Electric Company.” My niece and I call each other on our birthdays and sing, “Happy birthday, Miss Jones…”
Seriously: Have a nice natal day.
What everybody else said, plus one more happy birthday!
WAHOO! I have a big ton o’ happy birthdays, then!
Happy birthday! <3
Thank you!