Half a Birthday

I'm back. After almost exactly a year hiatus of blogging, I've been tempted back into the saddle by Erin's return to the "old country". With the main information channel incommunicado, it's up to those of us left behind to carry the load. Actually it's the construction of the first pigeon loft in over two years, with my able but vertically challenged assistant Elena, that provided the real impetus (I figured I had to come clean), but that is a story for another day.

Today, Nana calculated, was Elena's "half birthday". Being as Elena has recently been desirous of the coincident return of snow, Sinter Claus, Christmas, and her birthday, she wasn't going to let a "half birthday" slip by her. Particularly since there was the chance that half a birthday warranted half a cake.

It turns out that she was right, and Elena and Nana whipped up half a cake,



with a whole cake worth of frosting,



and we even managed to come up with 3.5 candles to lick.



The end result was one slightly older, and very happy camper!