Happy Birthday Beth Lynn

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It's 7:15, and I've been up for an hour already — going through old photos spanning the past fifty years,  starting with Hawaii in the late 1960s. Today is our daughter Beth's 60th birthday, but we celebrated it early with a birthday dinner on Sunday.

Monday was largely a lazy one. I was up at 7:00, and Beth joined me at 8:00, having slept in for the first time in weeks, maybe months. I had my two cups of coffee and the last of the scones for breakfast. Once the blog was published and everyone was up, Beth and I took the dogs for a long walk down to White Rock Lake and back. It was already in the 80s, and we were a bit worried about Tin Tin, who doesn't do well in the heat on long walks, so we kept it to just over half an hour.

Walking Tin Tin

Walking Kaia

Around 10:30, Beth and I headed out. We stopped at Wells Fargo for some banking, then decided to get a coffee at El Porton, one of the many coffee shops in the area. It wasn't very busy, so we ordered and sat down and talked for twenty minutes before braving the heat and driving over to Curiosities and Oddities — a not-so-thrift shop, literally across the street from Beth's neighborhood. The shop is unbelievable, packed with just about everything you could think of that you don't want. How they've accumulated all of it over the years is a wonder. After a good half hour of browsing, we drove home.

Need Anything

Clothes, Jewelry, Knick-Knacks

Lunch was easy — just a package of dumplings from Trader Joe's, heated up. Plenty if you weren't too hungry. Afterward, I watched some tennis during the early afternoon, then took a nap with Tin Tin.  Even Evie napped in the afternoon, which is unusual for her. While Beth worked through some baskets of things — sorting and tossing what she didn't need — I sat out on the front porch and read until 5:15, which meant wine time.

Reading on the Front Porch

We had a couple of good cheeses and crackers as an appetizer, then an easy dinner: leftover chicken, mushrooms, and artichoke hearts with rice and a salad. We finished Margo's Got Money Troubles and ended up really liking it. We closed out the night with a couple of episodes of Neighbors and Friends, with Jon Hamm.

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