Birthday Party

As I mentioned yesterday, we threw ourselves a birthday party this afternoon, and it went really well.

The plan was to be in the backyard, but the weather has been yucky all week, and was iffy all morning, so we went back and forth about that quite a bit.

What we ended up doing was setting the food up in the kitchen, as usual, but hanging out in the yard.


That way, if it had started raining, it wouldn't have been a big deal to move the party inside.

It did drizzle a tiny bit for a little while, but we stuck it out and it blew over pretty quickly.

We had a really good time, there were, I think, 13 adults and 5 kids. We mostly just hung out talking and eating, while the kids and the dogs ran around and played catch.

Even BigGaloot was a very good boy (except for stealing a hamburger bun from the table before the guests arrived, and some hamburger patties and/or hotdogs from it later).


We started with him on the tie-out kind of far from the people (which he handled amazingly well, considering that it's the first time we've put him on it), then tie him to a closer tree, where he could just almost be in the circle of people.

Later, Shrike brought him over, on leash, but then just let him run free.

He ran around with the kids, and did decide to join in on one piling-on incident, but other than that, he didn't jump on them or cause any problems.

We blew out the candles on the cake (which I'd sort of redecorated today - added more icing and different sprinkles, because it was very light on icing before) and everyone sang "Happy Birthday" (for the benefit of the kids, of course) so that was kind of nice.


Everybody left around six, and we've just been chilling out since. We don't have any real plans for tomorrow (except to try to get some planting done - unless we're going to grow tomatoes in a paper bag on the driveway) and I'm really looking forward to just being at home with Shrike.

In Peeper-related news: I'll be taking my last hormone injection in a couple of hours, and my last two prometria tomorrow.

Woo-Hoo!