Birthday celebration

I have a fantasy that people unknown to me are reading my blog. I really think that this isn't true. If I'm lucky maybe Matt and Pete will read it. So it may be of interest to know what we did for the February birthday. Marty and Tawnya took off work on Friday and went shopping in Bemidji. They then came to our house about nine p.m. Friday night. We were rather proud of Bear. She gets so excited when we have company, but she was much better about not jumping all over them. You could see that she really wanted to, but if you pointed at her she stayed down. Maybe she's afraid of Marty like Morgan is. On Saturday morning Dad and Marty went fishing and caught four nice walleyes. Marty deep-fried them for lunch. He and Tawnya took Bear and the goat for a long walk in the afternoon. It was sunny with temps in the forties. Everything was melting and dripping. They seemed to get a kick out of being seen walking with a goat. One solemn note though. One of our neighbors who was out plowing the road told them that his mother had heard that Dad had passed away. Marty and Tawnya said they didn't think so. He was just asleep on the couch. (A Mister Saeland on the road out to Hwy. 11 died a few weeks ago.) Marty had bought four big, thick t-bone steaks and two crunchy loaves of French bread for a birthday present. He barbecued the steaks outside since it was so nice out. I had been waiting for a special occasion to have my Japanese wine, so we got that out. It was really good. I wonder if Peter remembered that I always liked to get a glass of plum wine at Wong's in Rochester. It doesn't seem like he would because he was never along. We could have each had a plum for dessert, but we were too stuffed from the steak. So they are still in the refrigerator in a little wine. Now Dad and I can each have two. Saturday night we played Scrabble and Marty won. Maybe. Once he said he got fifty some points and none of us disputed it. That seems like a lot, doesn't it. Dad had been leading until that point. Tawnya and I had all the iiis and were making words like is and if . On Sunday we went to church in Baudette and Marty and Tawnya went home from there. On Monday, the real birthday, I baked a banana cake with carmel frosting. We had left over steak with it. I gave Dad a new pillow for a birthday present. It was not an exciting gift, but he really needed it. His other one is limp and flat. I was going to give him a new computer, but someone else had already done it. Claire and Nick called. Nick said that Feb. 6 is Tulip's birthday. Dana baked an angel food cake for her party, but she couldn't have any. She had some cheese with her dog food instead.