Birthday #47

I’m 47 years old today. Yay! Life’s a little upside down right now, but we’re keeping on. Like I said in the Skype call with Colin and Carol this morning, I’m taking the “downtime” for the Bow Cyclist Club to work on the deck. When life gives you 🍋…

But that’s not to say I’m not riding my bike. I was out and on the road this morning at 6:30. Partway into the ride, I decided to do 47 for 47 (kilometres for years).

It was a beautiful morning, if slightly chilly. I stopped near Glenbow Ranch Park to take this.

Good thing I did, because this was waiting for me for 2nd breakfast when I got back.

I couldn’t finish it, so I switched to opening cards and prezzies. As is the norm, everybody made cards.

Miranda ensured that I would be raising my game when it comes to cycling socks this year. Ian asked me which pair was my favorite, and I guessed either Botticelli’s Birth of Venus or maybe Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanugawa. What’s yours?

And my main present was my monitor but Tammy’s other gift spurred yet another Scotch taste test. We waited until after noon for that, though. The new one, McClelland’s, was Tammy’s 2nd favorite after the Game of Thrones Dalwhinnie.

We had a Skype call with Colin and Carol, and FaceTimed with Dad and then with Stephanie, Brianna, Zachary and Tristan. It was great to see everybody. Sounds like the weather was wet in Victoria, but it was 31 degrees in Mexico. I guess Calgary was the happy medium at 21 degrees and sunny.

We’re hoping for a nice warm afternoon for a barbecue. More pictures later!

Updated

Our enormous breakfast tided us over to an early supper (3:30). The weather was lovely, so barbecue was the order of the day. Tammy did the honours: burgers, smokies and hot dogs. Lots of leftovers, so we’re set for tomorrow working on the deck!

We had Murphy out on the deck in his harness. Let’s just say he had… emotions… about being there. Did a great job of climbing the old lattice trying to get away from his lead, in between playing dead and rolling around. Eventually he jumped up on Ian’s chair and settled down.

Dessert was a triple-layer carrot cake. It was delicious and moist, although very difficult to cut neat slices. I managed to blow out all the candles with one puff.

After dinner and cleanup, we sat and watched The Meg while rubbing our full bellies. It was a fine day from early start to end. Thank you, everybody.