Derek Goes Legal

It's ye olde 18the birthdaye. Apologies for bad pictures but there are mitigating circumstances:

1) Derek requested not to have his face in the photos...*rolls eyes*...

2) Camera with no working flash = blurdom. But that will be fixed one of these days.

Anyway, here is "someone" blowing out the candles on his cake...
And here's the recipe for the Almond Joy Cake that I used. I did make a few refinements, such as increasing the marshmallows...1/2 cup is in no way, enough. Also, I bought the wrong type of pudding mix, so I just left that out altogether.

Right off the birthday bat we had a slight misfortune, in that I could not find one of my presents designated for Derek's 18th birthday. Bad Ma! The day my books get organized, not to mention my teeny closet, life will be wondrous, indeed.

In the meantime, I owe Derek another present. At least, that's what I told him...

3 CD's, two of baroque music and one of a pipe organ.


The traditional 18th birthday presentation of one's personal set of LOTR.
Everyone literary aficionado needs a little Tolkien in their life.

So, he made me promise to crop him out of the birthday pictures, but he said nothing about the one taken earlier in church, that morning :-D
The "men's group," started by Kevin Currier, 2nd from right, sang a special in church on Sunday, which happened to be Derek's birthday.

Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus

Ethan is on the far left, and Derek is on the far right, which does not necessarily correspond to their political leanings, ha, ha.
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In other news, Loren continues to feel the effects of this weird virus (do we get any other kind?), but seems to be on the mend.

It rained buckets during the night and some water made its way into the basement, via a bad window. No damage, and to my knowledge, no mice drowned.

Ma got a few more things planted, pretty violas, fresh from the farm supply store, and also plopped a few flower seeds into the ground. Whether the seeds were washed away in last night's downpour remains to be seen (or unseen).

Life continues on.
 

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