Sherry's day, Her first while being 80 years young.

The Historical picture of the day:

George Burns and Gracie Allen Above circa '1929, below 1952. A good marriage, he always said she was the better of the two.

Now for Nov 6, 2017...

Sherry’s Birthday, she is now officially 80 years young. For gifts I went all out. She got a set on new tires, an oil change and a lawn edger.  Son Mark insisted that was not birthday presents.  So I did get her a Black cup.

The day started at Ihop for breakfast. Then back home. Her birthstone is the Topaz.  I once bought her a topaz ring in Montego Bay, Jamaica. I think she liked it. I read that there were different colors of topaz. So I ordered her a necklace with a small white topaz.  Later I hope to find her something with the blue topaz.

I tell her and anyone who will listen, after over 61 years of dates and marriage, I still see the beauty in this lady that I saw in the seventeen year old girl that I finally mustered the nerve to ask out on a date. Yes, we kissed on the first date (she just told me it was a toe curling kiss.).  Those kisses like her beauty are immortally ingrained in my mind.

I have seldom bought her flowers for special occasions. I hated to see them fade, droop and pedals fall until they went out with the trash. Times change. Technology and new engineering has made it possible to have a real rose that never fades. It is frozen forever at the peak of its beauty and dipped in 24 carat gold.  Now she has a rose that like her beauty will stay young and beautiful, like the lady she is.

The boys and I have enjoyed today with our special lady. Oh yes I also learned in reading up on the topaz, that there is a ‘Sherry Topaz’. I plan to look for one of those also.

Her card and gift certificate from Shirl:

Friend Evelyn called from Hardees in Belmont, NC and she chatted with all her friends gathered there.

Below you see she has her two boys to help her celebrate. They took her to IHOP this AM.

My girl lives in a beautiful and wonderfully made body, here is one more fact about this body:

The human brain cells can hold 5 times as much information as an encyclopedia. Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream, and is itself made up of 80% water. Though it interprets pain signals from the rest of the body, the brain itself cannot feel pain.


Nite Shipslog

PS: Of course I got my Kiss.

My girl beside a 1937 Ford, this car was new the year she was born.