Ron's Birthday

I didn't get around to recognizing Ron on his birthday last Saturday. We spent a happy day. I baked a yellow cake with chocolate frosting, and invited a couple of friends in to share. His sister, Evie, baked the most humongous batch of his favorite cookies, snickerdoodles, and sent them in a box - absolutely none were broken in the trip from Lake Stevens, Washington to Preston. And our neighbor, Carolyn, baked him six (yes, six) big cinnamon rolls! Her son, Lucas, 4 years old, made this portrait of Ron to include with his homemade birthday greetings. One leg has a more prominent knee than the other. That's probably because a little while ago, while he and his mother were looking at pictures of surfers in Hawaii, he announced that "Brother Gage is a surfer", a comment that caused a great deal of merriment to all. The world as seen through the eyes of a four-year-old is certainly different than the one that we "elders" live in. It is full of possibilities. Maybe we need to borrow a few? Late Happy Birthday.