Thanks for all the birthday wishes everyone! Busy day yesterday and it ended up being a late evening for me. EJ, I missed leap year by nine hours or so. Pork and peanut butter...two of my favorite things but not together. LOL The office crew took good care of me with doughnuts in the morning and a cake later in the day from Ann's Bakery in Tulsa. She/the bakery are very well known for wonderful baked treats. Dinner out with family and a couple of friends. Went to my favorite steak house. Surf and turf for me. Friends talked me into going to a little hole in the wall place that we like and we stayed out way to late. Spent the night at a friends as he lives around the corner. It's taking some time to get going this morning..LOL! The best thing that happened was hearing from Justin over the weekend. He posted a short note and a link to a short video on his face book page and was able to make a short five minute phone call to his DM. WOO HOO!!! The last time we heard from him was the third week of January. Communications with him have been very hit and miss since he left. He told us he should be stationary for the most part now and they are expecting hot showers by next week...there first. Thanks again! Have to get back to work now. David

Happy Birthday from me too, Michelle. I hope your foot is healing and your puppies have come home from daycare for good. So, is Joe making you something yummy? Annie

Thank you so much for all your birthday greetings. I had a nice day even if I did have to work yesterday. Rather than cook we went out to The Masthead Restaurant in Cowichan Bay for dinner. Sorry no pictures. The restaurant is dark and I would have had to use a flash which I hate doing. Moe started with scallops with a risotto and I had Cowichan Bay Duck Confit with Potato Gnocchi. Main courses were Duck breast for Moe and I had Beef Tenderloin with a Bearnaise sauce. Both meats were cooked medium rare. I'd like to tell you that dinner was wonderful but it was mediocre at best. Nothing terrible wrong with it but nothing exciting either. And service was sadly lacking too. Although to be fair they were busy with a couple of large tables. Moe said he could have had much better at home, which I guess is why we hardly ever go out for dinner. I heard from Matt yesterday and he is hoping to come up this weekend. Haven't seen him for a few weeks so we are looking forward to that. Thanks again. Ann

Thanks for the birthday wishes! This is the 5-0 birthday for me and it's just hard for me to believe it! After yesterday though, I'm FEELING it! LOL The house my boys lived in when they were in college is going on the market today so I was over there painting the kitchen cabinets and staging the bathrooms (cleaned them spic-n-span first). Oh my, I have soreness in places I didn't even know I had places! It probably didn't help that I came home and practically guzzled a bottle of wine while in the hot tub! So I guess 49 went out with a bang and 50 is coming in with a whimper. :-)