May I express my " Happy Birthday wishes too!" Always a great time to send well wishes to great people and friends !! Thank you James for being a good friend to Bill and " Moi" ;-) I did see a post on FB , not sure of the actual day, I'm guessing the 27 th? We will toast to you, James!!! Promise... We will miss you at dinner! The countdown to Cali has begun... I'm so excited!!! Cheers!! Many happy birthday wishes to you, Bill!!! You were my mentor from the start and I'll always be grateful for all of the help and advise .. You are a special person! Mahalo!!!! Laura

Thank you all for the birthday wishes. I did have a very nice day yesterday. Out to a late lunch with DH and then we snooped around in several stores just to see what is new. This winter has been so long and wintery, I haven't been out much. The "good times" continued today with beautiful sunshine all day and 70 degrees. We had the granddog for the day, and daughter came this evening with an almond lemon cake that was to die for.

I told of some of mine over on the welcome to AMY365 thread. Not much of great moment on the Friday ... but son and partner took me to a country and western band on Sat night. They're cousins - John P. Allen is the M.C. and gets his body and movements into it, and his face moves a good deal related to what he's doing. He played fiddle with the "Prairie Oyster" band for several years and recently has done a number of his own gigs. His sister, a doc, plays string bass and brother, fiddle, mandolin and trumpet were involved, and the young ones of the first two: the main female singer is taking nursing and quite vivacious - adds a good deal to the presentation. They attend one church where I go - the one which I went to as a child. The men's group in the other church had a tour of Labatt's Brewery on Monday night, so it's been an interesting weekend. ole joyful

Your very Welcome George...chocolate with birthday buttercream frosting..loaded in pink roses because IMO pink always tastes best...haha. If I could I would make all of my lovely friends here a Birthday cake.