Faces and fish (totally unrelated.)

Have you ever had one of those days when everything seems somehow related

to everything else?  Where this event leads into the next one, a seemingly random

phone call summons up a visit with someone obscure and yet it all manages to

seem familiar, like there is theme music in the background of your life?

I seem to vaguely remember such days, but lately, my days are so random.

This happens, that happens, this person shows up, I make bread.

So, yesterday, without any theme music, without any fanfare,  a happy little

string of events occurred and amazingly, I had a camera at hand.

Nothing big, you understand, just heartwarming.

It all started with the cupcakes.

015Apple filled spice cakes.

017…with yellow butter cream icing.

I made them for Cynthia and Frank and Jordan.

Because, you know, they LIKE cupcakes.

But I ended up with 24- and cupcakes go stale quickly.

So we boxed them up and took some to-

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Allyson.

She was surprised…

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and delighted!

While we were there, we saw this boy…

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happily playing in a pile of dirt.

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His shirt says “I PLAY DIRTY!”

(He didn’t know about the cupcakes.  SHH! It was supposed to be

a secret!)

He was just so happy to have us stop over.  He thought we might like to

play in the dirt and mud with him.

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Oh yes, there was mud.  The train needed a mud hole to fall into.

But when we politely refused, he tried another tack-

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and got on his bike.

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“Do you want to watch me ride my bike?”

And we did – for a while.

So- the cupcakes made for a happy afternoon.

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They were very good, by the way, I filled them with apple pie filling.

The Fish?

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I found a whole bag of ribbon origami fish at a thrift store.

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They tickled my fancy – so I bought them!

5 thoughts on “Faces and fish (totally unrelated.)

  1. You had a great day! Happy I was able to share it with you. What are you going to do with all of the fish? Did Aiden have a cupcake yet? T he cupcakes were yummy! I enjoyed our journey yesterday.

  2. The fish are delightful! If you don’t find a use for them, I’m sure your grandsons will enjoy playing with them.

  3. Love those fish! I wouldn’t have been able to resist them either. I am trying hard to resist making cakes too, though while I was away this weekend, Bri made a huge boiled fruit cake which he casually offered me a taste of yesterday, what a nice chap he is. Cupcakes… I quite fancy making some of those but you do need people to share them with, I made three choc chip muffins at Easter for my relatives and they seemed to enjoy them. 🙂

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