Jan. 15, 2006 - 21:24 MST

TRIPLE

The weather unseasonable today but very welcome. Warm, sunny, light breeze. I expect we will pay for this in February and March. At least I hope we do, we will need the snow on the flatlands as well as what is being dropped in the mountains. We do have wildfires burning in several spots around our state.

Heather turned ? (became)? aged to the point of eighty-one years today. We greeted each other as survivors this morning. This coming June we will have spent 63 of those years together, a record for many folks.

There have been some iffy times, privation and problems, but overall it has been a supremely happy time for us, and we wear our great-grandchildren as medals of family survival, I think.

So on her eighty-first birthday did we go out and have a blast, see the sights, go to shows, go on a toot ? Not really. It was much more enjoyably spent at home in our traditional laid back manner.

But at five o'clock we were at our daughter's house for a family birthday celebration. Grandma Heathers, our daughter's son was having his birthday today too, and a great-granddaughter celebrated for her birthday of January 17th also.

There were friends of the girl and the grandson there, as well as there was as many of the family that live in town. Nobody had to be at work that late in the day, so it was near as a full crew as could be.

A big pot of chili along with great slabs of corn bread were cheerfully destroyed, drinkables various for all concerned.

Most of the grown-ups had cameras of one sort or another, much hilarity and camera flashes took place. Then the grand circle of birthday people opening their presents much ooohing and aaahing from the audience.

The family has perfected this yearly event. I remember one frantic birthday celebration that had too many friends attending (mostly littles) streaking through the house, between everybodies shanks, squealing and the grown folks trying to converse above the din, the volume rose to such a peak I think all of us were fatigued just from the hubbub.

There was quite a bit of enjoyable action between the littles (and they ain't so little anymore either), nobody held their breaths or tempers, it was just a very nice get together.

Then after the presents came the cake and ice cream. Three different cakes of course and a giant tub of icecream. Coffee for the grownups and pop for the kids.

I rather suppose that Heather did as I did, and today went back in memory to the different birthdays of our kids as they grew. A thing greatly enjoyable for me to do. Seeing some facet of ourselves in each of our kids, grandkids and great grandkids.

We came home too full, tired, and pleasantly happy from another TRIPLE . . . . . . . . . . .

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