a chinese birthday celebration

Jul 23, 2022

Yesterday was Mr. Pesky’s birthday. I’m not going to reveal his age, but I will say he looks good to be so ancient. 😉 We celebrated with a Chinese smorgasbord and no cake.

Another photo op?

We always try to do a group photo at all get-togethers and this day was no different. We really stink when it comes to setting up a phone camera. Obviously. And the sun was our enemy.

Did you notice the birthday boy hiding in the photos at HIS birthday celebration. 🙄

It was 95 degrees in the shade when we started posing for our photos. We took three different groups of them — moving the phone/camera or our bodies each time. We were sweaty and the only reason we didn’t stop after a couple photos is because they were so bad.

In the first group, we were all directly in the sun causing blowout (white blank spots on our heads). We moved forward out of the sun in the second grouping. This move produced the best photos of the birthday boy but we moved so far forward that Ben’s head was cut off in every single one.

family photo beheaded

Even bad photos are better than none at all. Right?

TIL (Today I Learned): In 2006, a mother and son were convicted of trying to extort money from Cracker Barrel by claiming they found a dead mouse in her soup. Charges were filed after a necropsy showed the mouse had no soup in its lungs and had not been cooked, signs that it was dropped into the soup after its death.