Friday, April 24, 2009

YeGods, another birthday!

Truth be told, I have commemorated yet another year on this soil. I won't say which year it was but suffice it to say that the numbers are mounting. Nevertheless, I feel much the same as I have felt for years, nay decades. I know the years are growing and the supposed physical complaints are increasing but most of the time I don't notice them.

SWMBO and I have just returned from a wonderful Italian repast at a local dining establishment, provided in part by the generosity of a friend who supplied me with a gift card. We both dined on something called Lasagna Rollatini in a sauce . . . mine with Italian sausage, hers with chicken breast. And at my insistence, we topped off the meal with more than enough Zeppoli . . . which SWMBO describes as fried dough. Coated in sugar with a chocolate dipping sauce on the side, I found it quite salutory. My companion complained throughout (while devouring one or two of them!) A too pricey bottle of Kendall Jackson wine completed the feast. And now we're safe home to begin the search for yet another year of survival. So it goes.
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I snapped a photo in our neighborhood the other day of a resident Roadrunner. He was a fair distance away so when the picture was cropped and blown up, he becomes a bit hazy. But for those of you who have never seen one of these strange creatures, here he is.

17 comments:

  1. You're only as old as you feel right?

    A roadrunner? Really?

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  2. Or as those you feel!

    Yep, it's a roadrunner. You could look it up.

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  3. I have only ever seen roadrunners as extremely irritating cartoon characters. It is nice to see a real one... & quite still!
    I have ceased to care about the passage of the birth milestones!
    But Happies to you, anyway!!

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  4. Happy Bday! You went out for a nice dinner and then came home to survive? Was she really that rough on you? I didn't have you pegged as liking it rough like that. But I ain't judging. To each their own. Must have been that bottle of wine.

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  5. Anothwer year...another year. My we be blessed with many of them.

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  6. I guess so, Steve, though some days I wonder!

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  7. From one Taurean to another: Happy Birthday! Hope you had a brilliant day and here's to a wonderful year ahead. It's a pleasure to know you, Mr Cat. x

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  8. Why, thank you Miss Kitty. The feeling is mutual.

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  9. Happy late birthday, Cat, hang on in there a bit longer, eh?

    Thanks for the road runner!

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  10. Thanks Lucy . . anything for you!

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  11. Just because you have another birthday is no reason to flip the bird at all your readers... :-)

    Happy B-day Cat!

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  12. Happy Birthday! I have one coming up this week ... I'll withold the numerical data too.

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  13. Thanks, Dagny, and the same back atya!

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  14. Happy Belated Birthday!

    or Happy Early Birthday for 2010!~!

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