{"id":19735,"date":"2021-08-07T13:43:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T18:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=19735"},"modified":"2021-08-07T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T18:43:35","slug":"kevins-happy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/kevins-happy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin’s Happy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wednesday, August 4th, Kevin’s 64th birthday…after he’d gone to bed the night before I came up with the brilliant idea of leaving him a voicemail singing “when I’m 64.” I wasn’t sure where his phone was, but was confident that when it rang he wouldn’t hear it because he generally sleeps through most things. Just to be sure, I went into the bedroom to make the call so I could watch him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His phone was right by the bed, and he groggily opened his eyes and looked at me. Damn! He asked what was going on and I said, “I love you,” kissed him on the forehead and left the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh well, it was a good idea anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last Sunday Kevin bought a shed that he had to assemble and spent his entire birthday day working on it. Last year he was putting a new roof on the old part of the house, so at least this job was less hot than that one. Also it wasn’t sweltering all week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve made him a few very lowfat lemon cheesecakes all summer and that’s what he wanted for his birthday, so the morning before I got out of bed and immediately started the cheesecake because it takes a while and I didn’t want to heat up the house. I got a stick of butter out of the freezer and popped it in the microwave, hitting the “one minute” buitton. I do this a lot, checking it every few seconds and turning it til it’s soft enough to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But because I was doing too many things and once and wasn’t fully awake, suddenly the timer dinged and I was dismayed to see that I’d forgotten all about the butter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After that I slowed down a bit so I didn’t do any more stupid things and it turned out fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After he’d put in a full day of work on his birthday, Jim joined us down on the dock as Kevin enjoyed a birthday cigar. It was a beautiful evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s funny that his shirt says “Yes, I have a retirement plan. I plan to go sailing,” because his sailboat isn’t in the water yet. Hopefully it will be very soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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mom also loves lemon cheesecake so that’s convenient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jim always has great birthday present ideas and suggested that I get Kevin a solar battery for his phone. I went down the rabbit hole of the almost infinite options for solar phone batteries and it was too much for me, but ultimately I decided a solar battery would be better if we were going hiking, but on the other hand he’s never run out of phone power on any hikes. So I looked up other solar things and there are of course many of them out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got him a solar, hand-crank and plug-in radio, a solar lantern, and a cool solar flashlight. Very exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wonder what huge task he’ll undertake for his 65th?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ok then,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs. H.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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