Happy Birthday, Ken!

Today is Ken's 68th birthday. He'd prefer to avoid thinking about getting older (wouldn't we all!), but birthday wishes from family and friends were a positive addition to the day. Chris and Anara called first, and when he opened his email, he found a whole bunch of cute and funny and touching greetings--plus a couple from companies that are happy to have him as a customer!

Jeff called later and talked for quite a while. He'll be having another PET scan on Friday. Meanwhile he's working in a hospital squadron, but helping them to improve their safety plan, so he's using his safety expertise.

We were going to go out to dinner tonight to celebrate Ken's birthday and Mother's Day, but it turned out that the restaurant we liked isn't open on Mondays and Tuesdays. "Who ever heard of a restaurant that wasn't open on Tuesdays?" he wondered. Anyhow, we've changed the plan. Tomorrow we're going to the north side of the lake to explore and do some hiking, and we've found a restaurant over there that sounds intriguing and is well reviewed, so now we're planning a visit to the Silver Sage Grille in Canyon Lake.

We biked for a while this morning and found ourselves climbing a hill to see a neighborhood that overlooks the lake. That's a challenge to legs more accustomed to biking in the flatlands. We did see some interesting homes, including a couple cantilevered over the bluff and looking rather precariously balanced.

We walked this evening. As usual, we saw lots of deer and butterflies and birds and wildflowers. We watched a Nature program on the Private Life of Deer, too.


Tonight we did some trip planning and figured out some options for travel between New Horizons and Cumming. We got a call this morning from the camp hosts at Bald Ridge Creek advising us of some available sites that will work for us, so we called and changed our reservation. (The site we first reserved turned out not to be suitable because it's on a rather tight turnaround with overhanging trees.) We're hoping that the new sites will work out better for us. We'll be in one site for ten days and the second site for four. Too bad it didn't break up more evenly, since we'll be trying to avoid having to go dump if possible until we make the move.

We watched the next episode of Mr. Selfridge. The characters and their conflicts and interactions are quite interesting, especially since the story is based on real life (though there has certainly been plenty of artistic license taken!).