Up and celebrate with birthday cards – sweet cards, barely readable cards, sober cards, cards promoting the beauty, joys and "advantages" of advanced age, and hilariously funny cards.
Then quickly, off to one of Hickory’s great greenways to walk the dogs, accessing it through the part known as Winkler Park. Incredibly, our doggies had never been here before, and they had a super blast with all the ducks quacking, and waddling their tails and swimming along. Nice day at 74° with a clear blue sky and a gentle breeze sweetly blowing. 
Afterwards, change clothes and on to Bistro 127. I had a Croque Monsieur, JoAnn had Quesadillas. We shared Sweet potato fries with a brilliant cheesy, spicy dip, and we each had a different craft beer. Mine from a new brewery just opened up in Granite Falls, "Hoppalachia" which was really good – I rated it a 555A, and hers was a "Trail Marker" brewed in Lenoir and it garnered a rating of 553.
Later home to open packages. Presents – Wow, presents galore. Then the evening was spent in writing and answering telephone calls.
