Yakkety~Yak

Moving right along from yesterday's post, which brought an email from a psychic/mystic. Ai yi yi. Obviously, I am not making myself clear around here.☺ 
Oh well. As I say of Blogdom — never a dull moment! Or the other thing I say of Blogdom—the only dull moments are when no one is posting. Here's my attempt to remedy that.

So where have I been? I was ill. That took a few days (and I'm still not back up to speed). Then both John and I celebrated birthdays: the BIG ones that enter us into a new decade. John has now arrived at what he describes as "all that God has promised." For the first time, I have found myself thinking that I may not see the next big one. Now this is always true of everyone, but I had never considered it before. It could be a good thing. Maybe. Not going to spend a lot of time dwelling on it. Just a little. Hopefully. Nothing to keep me up at night or anything. YaWn...

While no pies were made, there has been some baking going on. 

That's the last piece of my cake ↑. My birthday was celebrated at my son's home where he baked a delicious lasagna and homemade rolls, my daughter-in-law made a fresh salad, and where my daughter brought this yummy cake.
In a few short days, John celebrated his birthday. I made him a strawberry cake using *this recipe* from the MGCC site.↓ 

It was a pretty cake, but I didn't follow directions; it goes without saying that following the directions is a good idea. In the end, John got what he really wanted for his birthday cake. ↓

That's right. Just a plain old strawberry shortcake — there is a plain old biscuit under there somewhere as he doesn't even like "special" biscuits or pound cake or angel food cake or anything else that one might use to dress it up.

~Fioré finds some shade~

Let's see, what else. Oh yes, Daylight Savings Time. I have tried to be good everywhere I have visited and not mention (in response to those who are displeased with DST) that I love it. I do. Love, love, love it. We both do here. If I could, it would always be DST, except we can't have children going to school in the dark. Anyway, I'm opening the floor. Do you love it or hate it? Feel free to share. I will not hold it against thee either way.

Anything else you'd like to know? Otherwise, I'm fresh out of scoop.