Happy Birthday, Bob!

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Niece Kathie thought of a way to include me in celebrating my brother’s 85th birthday. She drove from her home to mine, spent the night, drove us to Bob’s for the small party, brought us back to my house, stayed another night, and went home. That driving took about 12 hours, three hours for each leg of the trip. If I had stopped to think of it, I would have said it was far too much for her to do. I’m convinced she is a super person, capable of doing the impossible cheerfully at any time. For the birthday lunch, she prepared a chicken-rice dish, colorful lettuce salad, and cupcakes. Amazing!

Before driving to Bob’s house, we took a walk to the stop sign. The photo was a joint effort. I held the phone, and Kathie tapped the screen.

Bob lit the 8½ candles on the cupcakes as Michael and Julie (number 2 daughter) looked on.

This photo shows Bob’s wife Beth with him and Kathie. We played a game of guessing what item was on a card with one team member using words for the first round and acting the word without speaking on the second. I found out that a deaf person is at a distinct disadvantage in that setting. I didn’t hear crucial things, although Bob did better than I did. It was fun, anyway.

Kathie helped Bob re-pair the fancy bird feeder after a recent problem with the internet provider. The feeder has a camera that takes short videos when birds land on it. I was thrilled to see a photo of a blue bird that Bob extracted and sent to us.

I enjoyed being with everyone and really appreciated Kathie’s driving so long to get us together.

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Published by Anne Mehrling

I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina.

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28 thoughts on “Happy Birthday, Bob!”

  5. Lovely family get together. Beautiful looking candles on the cupcake 🧁. Pretty Blue Bird. God bless you all of you 🙏

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  6. That was very nice of Kathie to drive and pick you up to make this memorable get-together even more memorable. Those Bird Buddy feeders are so unique. A few fellow bloggers have them and have posted pictures of some of the birds, none of them bluebirds though.

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      1. That’s interesting. I still don’t know enough about smartphones to understand the phone “not reading” it. But it was a beautiful picture of a bluebird nonetheless.

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  9. Wow, your family is so amazing and so youthful! I’d never guess that Bob was 85, he and his wife appear to be in great shape. I smiled at the bluebird photo, what technology has brought us is sometimes good!

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