what a cake

This flower "cake" came yesterday from niece Cindy and Pete. Isn't that neat and it smells wonderful. I had a fun birthday. We went to see the movie An Inconvenient Truth, not a laugher but very interesting and thought provoking and then to Appleby's where we had mushroom steaks that were so generous that we brought home enough for another meal.
Got phone calls from Mary and from all five of the grandchildren from their various locations and a couple of words from two of the great grands. "Hi" from 1 yr. old Tanner and "Happy Birthday Oma" from 4 year old Emma.
Josh's blog brought sad news about their house plan, but some darling pictures of the twins.
A beautiful bird calendar from Margy and a gift cert. for Office Max from the Wis. family added to my day along with email messages from a lot of friends and family. Thanks to all. 83 isn't bad so far.