Happy Delaware Day! December 7 marks the day in 1787 when Delaware became the first to ratify the U.S. Constitution, thereby making it the First State (or, as we like to say, "the State that started a Nation").
This is not to be confused with Separation Day, which commemorates the day in June of 1776 when the three counties of Delaware declared themselves independent of the Pennsylvanian rule that they had been under...and thereby also separated themselves from British rule.
Married 50 years today. Visiting the church where we were married this morning, then wild celebration with friends and family at beloved mother-in-law's home.
Thank you all for the kind messages! Slight glitch in celebration... Despite email from the church saying they would be open, it was closed, but someone else arrived and took photos of us at the church door. It was a beautiful (cold) day near New York and enjoyed by all.
I am careful to keep my birthday quiet these days - far too many of them piled up behind me. So... going into the YMCA this morning as usual to abuse the increasingly decrepit body, I swiped my card at reception, and was surprised to set off an alarm, at which point all the staff yelled out loudly, "Happy birthday!" Some kind soul, or evil swine, depending on how you look at it, had had some fun with the new electronic entry system and the membership data base. (Probably illegal in some places, but it really was funny).
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Possible ways around the problem: cover the cake with Glad Wrap, held in place by the candles; have the candles on a separate board.
This is not to be confused with Separation Day, which commemorates the day in June of 1776 when the three counties of Delaware declared themselves independent of the Pennsylvanian rule that they had been under...and thereby also separated themselves from British rule.
@Firenze Happiest of birthdays, a day late!
@Rossweisse in Heaven
@Marmot
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@YeOldeMotherboarde
I wished Firenze HB on Farcebark, and meant to post here, so thanks for doing that, JJ!
A lot of Capricorns, it seems—just like Jesus and Elvis.
shouting... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
You share a birthday with my late dad, who would have been 98 on the 6th.
I won't sing, and everyone will be much happier