it's my Birthday...

Okay, not 2 day, but 2marrow...
     Not sure if I'm excited about it or not...  Being the first birthday without my mom, and come on... is any one over 40 EVER excited about a birthday???   Well I was a couple years ago, it was a surprise 40th gathering on my 42nd.   That was part of the surprise...   It was really HOT, so hot we could not even stand being in the beer garden...   A good time was had by all...   My wonderful husband even backed me a cake and it was way yummy...  He took pictures too, of me and all my guests.   So I have wonderful pictures of my birthday to enjoy forever, one particular picture that really means the world to me... it is a picture of me with my mom and my brother, probably one of the last pictures taken of her,  and I treasure it...
     I just went to look for those pictures so I could share them with you, but no luck 2day...
they R on safari....    just like half of everything else that  I ever look 4...      I will look again later...


     Now on with new business...  I have found my little card reader to use my memory card with my lap top, but apparently I have forgotten how to use it.   Because I spent 3 hours last night playing with it and saving pictures to post.   Then when I got in to my blog and started working...  I had nothing...
 it was very disappointing....      I will try that again later too...

     I will also be trying a bread & butter pickle recipe that a dear friend gave me.   It was an emotional thing the day she gave me a taste of them.   It made me think of all of my mom's recipes that I will never have now.
She was a master cook with most of her recipes in her head.    I can only hope that I will find some of her canning secrets in a notebook or jotted down on something when I get to going through her stuff.
  
Well... I think that is enough sad stuff for now...    I will try to find my b-day pictures from 2 years ago so I can share some of them with U all...     have a good day...    christina   =^,^=   meow...