Birthday Redux

Mr. Right

I go back and forth about the ideal profession for a husband. Today, it's definitely lawn maintenance person or the owner of such a business. Two complete passes of the lawn in less than a week have me fed up.

On the other hand, I suppose the millionaire personal chef physician would have no trouble paying someone to mow the lawn.

Variety is the Spice of Life; or, Sad but True

I varied the routine this week by visiting Walmart on Friday night instead of Saturday night. I'm sorry to say that this change passes for excitement in my life.

Because I Can

The white birthday cake my mother made while she was here a few weeks ago was so delicious and gone so quickly that I decided to make another one. It's humid enough here that the seven minute frosting crystallized overnight, but it hasn't stopped me from enjoying the cake. Besides, the beauty of seven minute frosting is that after a few days, the cake soaks most of it up, and a good cake becomes even better.

photo: Chicago Daily News. (1917). [Maurine Brisler, frosting a cake, Mrs. Walter Barnes, and Mrs. Theron O. Jennings, standing by a table in a room].Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0006735, Chicago History Museum. Available from American Memory at http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER+@band(ichicdn+n067535))

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