We Get To Celebrate Another Birthday!

Our oldest Grandson Varick turned 15 today! My Brother Patrick and his wife Cindy joined us this evening at Daughter Mary Mae's for a birthday dinner. I had made a pasta salad, MM had a green salad and Pat brought some sweet corn he picked up on the way over here from one of his growers. Varick wanted lemon bars for his birthday cake, so that's what we had.

It was birthday hats for the birthday boy. His Sister Claire had bought him a cap and we had bought this hat he's wearing in the picture. But I think the hit present for Varick was the skeleton MM found for him at Costco.

Varick, Claire and his friend Gillian were already thinking of all the different ways the skeleton could be posed -- and not just for Halloween! I can just imagine all of the ways that bunch of bones is going to show up in the future.

A very special gift from his parents was a copy of English Creek by Ivan Doig. This is the book where his parents found his unusual name. Since much of the story is about a fifteen year old boy -- the son of Varick -- they thought it was a very appropriate gift for Varick's fifteenth birthday.