The first pic is one of my all-time faves. It wasn’t taken on my first-born’s birthday. That was today and I won’t tell you how old she is but when I turned her age, my parents sent me a card in which my father wrote “Unhappy Birthday”. He was not actually wishing me an unhappy birthday just wishing himself younger.

An alternate title for this photo might be “Mooooo”. It is meeee (in the striped bikini), Radical Betty, Baby Liz, and The Commander walking out into the water at the moominbeach. Note that the wee one was hanging on to me by one finger. That’s how much she trusted me, I guess. Once, a relative did not recognize me upon seeing this pic. Whose finger is Liz hanging on to? It wasn’t because of the bikini although I haven’t worn one for umpteen bazillion years (back in the day I probably owned five or six bikinis at a time, all hanging on the clothesline strung across the back of the partition between the living room and bedrooms at the moomincabin). It was because they couldn’t figger out who that “dark” skinned person was. Well. It was meeee. I used to use what limited time the SUN shone down on our beautiful yooperland beach to get tan and my purportedly fair northern European skin does in fact tan nicely. I don’t do that any more mainly because I stopped caring a long time ago.

My birthday girl started out today by taking her coffee over to the neighboring park. After a run and a shower, she and her partner walked downtown where they met up with the GG for lunch at the Oscar Tango and then toured some of the local museums, including the newest incarnation of the “dinosaur museum”, which opened shortly before covid hit. I haven’t been there yet but I am not a huge museum fan plus I fear I might miss the “old” dinosaur museum, the one I visited throughout my and my children’s childhoods.

We took gifts (Dyson vacuum cleaner and a couple other things) and ‘hattan makings over to their house, then headed down to The Earle for dinner. She has never been to the Earle before!!! In response to that statement, I told her that we couldn’t afford the Earle when she was young 🤣

I didn’t include a recent picture of the birthday girl today except for the coffee in the park pic that she sent me. She is beautiful and looks a lot younger than her age.

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