I did a thing! On Saturday I turned 80 years old. Yep, I completed 80 trips around the sun. It was a great birthday with family and friends. Julies and Jim and the pups, Brenda and Andy from Ft. Branch, and sister-in-law Karen came for dinner and a couple of brewskis. I did all of the cooking. I did a coastal shrimp boil with red potatoes, corn on the cob, smoked sausage, and of course shrimp. I have been wanting to do one for some time and I thought that my birthday would be the perfect opportunity. I also made a peach buckle and it turned out very well. Ms. Kate was my “co-pilot” with good instructions on when to add what to the boil. As most always happens, between the two of us it all turned out well, and we all ate a bit too much. 

Yesterday I played a trumpet solo at church. I found a sound called “Until Then” on You Tube sometime ago that was being played by Phil Collingsworth of the Collingsworth family and decided that some day I need to play that somewhere. So, since yesterday was the day after my 80th birthday, I decided to do it then. It took a lot of rehearsing to get it right because frankly, my lips and lungs are far from what they use to be, but I’m happy to say that my performance went off without a hitch. Folks seemed to enjoy it. Of course that means that I’m silly enough to think I need to start on another piece to play. Kate is fond of “In The Garden”, so I might start working on that. Maybe sometime in the fall I can do that one at church. I also like “Amazing Grace, My Chains Are Gone”. We’ll see if any of that actually happens. 

For my 2nd day of my 81st year, I’m doing laundry. Somehow —— it seems a bit anticlimactic! Have a wonderful week. Peace.