so far, birthday weekend is awesome

so i took smoke to the market like i normally do. sat, people watched, answered questions from anyone who asked, talked. pretty normal. one person stopped to talk for a while and somehow the subject of age came up and i mentioned that my birthday is tomorrow. she wished me happy birthday and we ended the conversation soon after.

next thing i know, she's coming back through the crowd to give me a bundle of purple and telling me they're a birthday present. cool huh?

it gets better.

a bit after that i put smoke back in her carrier to do the shopping.

bought smoked salmon, strawberry soda, a piece of buttermilk fudge cake and two beeswax birthday candles for tomorrow.

one vender, who i've seen before but not since the season started at the beginning of the quarter, was there and i wandered over to look at what she had. really good looking chocolates. i think maybe later, but i'm looking for a cake now, so i start to wander away and as she finishes up with he current customer, she asks about the lilacs. says she's seen white ones and purple ones, but not purple and white ones, where did i get them? i tell her how, and she says she'll give me a free chocolate for my birthday. i picked out a salted lavender caramel one.

so... shaping into an awesome weekend.

tomorrow, i think i'll make a point to call my sister and bug her. that's always fun.