Thank you everyone. I had a very nice birthday. This morning Cheryl and Kevin took me out to breakfast as well as Amber and Mike. Of course Alyssa was along too. We ate at the Sirloin Stockade and we could eat breakfast and lunch. I had fried chicken with my french toast! I had a lot of other great food too, no supper for me tonight! We shopped for Alyssa afterward, such fun looking at little girl clothes. So thank you everyone that has wished me such a happy birthday. Sue

Thanks for the birthday wishes. This is my 55th, yeah I'm an old one. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Noni_TX and Marilyn_Sue!Hope you both enjoy your day too. I'm just staying here at home trying to stay warm, it is a cold day here in IL.

Thank you so much everyone for the nice birthday wishes. My day was a busy day. The forenoon spent on making a lot of phone calls to doctor's offices and then made lunch of potato soup. Cheryl, Amber and Alyssa came and we ate and then we started cleaning the living room and moving things out and about and dusting well. We were making room for a small round dining room table to move into there which did get moved in last night. In the late after noon, Terri, Mandy and little Alex came with a very nice birthday supper from Bob Evan's. Pot roast meal, chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, mac and cheese, rolls, banana bread, and they brought a birthday cake. Son Randy also came and ate with us. Our son in law Kevin had to work over so he came much later. It was a very different birthday eating in the living room so Norm could eat with us. Oh, by the way, I am now 80 years old. Thanks again everyone for the good wishes. Sue

Wow. I didn't expect this. Thank you all very much! I am doing fine. I absolutely love it here. We have been doing some repairs around the place, and Jody fenced off a space on each side of the driveway for my antique roses (which I am getting back into) and some native plants and of course a few waterlilies. I also have another big, fenced area just for waterlily tanks. Next week I am going to an antique rose event where cuttings are exchanged, plus speakers and a pot luck. Really looking forward to that. Here we have what they call "community water", and we are on that, but we recently had our own water well drilled and Jody piped water to all the pastures and all around. For the first time ever, I don't have to drag hoses. All pastures have water piped to them, even one far back that we won't use. It has an old barn and was the site of a blacksmith shop at the turn of the century (1900). There is a deep well there...locals call it a cistern. It is mostly wooded now...only about 6 acres. Some huge pecan trees and many squirrels live back there now, so at least I can provide water for them, even if I don't use it for the horses. The highlight of my day yesterday was discovering there is a wall plug in the feed room....probably in the tack room too...I haven't looked yet. Such luxuries/conveniences...I am not used to. I am as happy as if I had won the lottery. ;)