Another Birthday

 We celebrated Tom's 84th birthday this week.

On Thursday we went to a local nursery to look at plants for our porch planters. Since we only buy birthday presents for each other that we pick out ourselves, I encouraged him to find something he liked and call it his birthday present. He did.

Of course it was another "pokey" plant, a Mangave named "Purple People Eater". He bought the little side kick too, but I don't remember his name. We bought the big blue pot to put the people eater in, but then at home we discovered that we had an empty lavender pot, perfect color, so that's where the new plant is now potted. I'm sure the blue pot will get a resident soon enough. 

We had to go to Home Depot for the plants I wanted for the porch.

Mixing colors and textures is my thing.

I had kind of a rough week, with a painful hip injection on Wednesday, and sometime in the night last Sunday night something, probably a spider, bit me in my sleep, and I ended up with six quarter sized welts that hurt and itched like crazy. It was Friday before I got these plagues settled down, so I was happy to get to help celebrate Tom and his twin Jan on their actual 84th birthday, with lunch at The Fish Peddler on the Foss Waterway in Tacoma. 

Of course there was dessert.

Then there was a walk along the waterway.

Here we were on the waterway side of the Museum of Glass. 

The do-it-yourself music was fun. Jake and I enjoyed it.

It was a great outing with the family.

Later that day Tom and Jill went to the Sounders game at the stadium. It was a big sports day in Seattle: Huskies, Mariners, and Sounders all at home. The Huskies won, the Sounders won, and the Mariners did not.

Now that I am cooled down from our morning walk, I'm going to go out in the yard and pick flowers, and then I'll settle in for Seahawks football and then another Mariners playoff game. 

Sports and birthdays and flowers - all fun.