Happy 90TH Birthday, Mom!
Today is Mom's BIG DAY!!! Whoo hoo, she's doing so awesome as she starts her 9th decade. Much, much merriment, including a delicious fish dinner that Kevin prepared last night (a very historic event, indeed); we took the food over and ate at Mom's house, also kind of historic, and then the three of us watched two more episodes of "All Creatures Great and Small" which Kevin and I are highly addicted to now. Mom has always liked it. We just went out to lunch to Lime Street, and we'll go to dinner tomorrow night, and the celebrations continue... Here are a bunch of random photos throughout the...

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Addendum to Lost in the Woods
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Squirrel eating a Paw Paw!
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