Daughter Nancy baked cupcakes for my birthday, which we celebrated last night. They are gorgeous and delicious and I just ate another one with my coffee this morning.

I love cupcakes.

Birthday dinners, birthday lunches…oh, how I am being spoiled this year!

Not to mention the beautiful cards. Yes, I am definitely being spoiled. And it’s great fun.

This was to be the last day of our porch-stairs-deck building project, but it is too cold for the guys to work outside installing the railings. A few days from now it will warm up and I’m glad they’re waiting for the temperature to rise. We have twelve days before the Texans begin to arrive and there is no hurry. This latest “polar vortex” event will end soon enough.

Banjo Man is determined to have a real Christmas tree this year, so we may take a ride to a local tree farm to see what’s available before we buy one next Wednesday. We haven’t had a live tree for over two decades, but I remember how the needles started falling off three days after putting the thing up.

I’m not a fan. But Banjo Man is determined this is the year.

I will keep you posted. After all, what could go wrong?