Gearing up for 50!

I find this too good not to share:

The B.W.'s or "the boys" as you sometimes call them presented me with my first birthday present last night...a huge empty breadbox...it's as big as the secondhand microwave oven we've been dreaming about.  Now the trick will be to keep it full.  Maybe the key to making this the year of Jubilee!

Happy Birthday Anita!

I was sorry I couldn't meet your plane
when you arrived to Ukraine
way back in 1999+1.
Our boys met you, and that was fine & fun.


Your cheerful face and friendly ways
Brightened up our “everydays”.

I met new friends with you
Bucky and Satchel to name just two.

Remember Barsik and Julia​? Our two strays
who ate anything we threw their way.
Julia was an unfaithful concubine
Her puppies looked like porcupines.


And you taught me to enjoy Ukrainian candy!
Svitoch and Korivka - I found out taste real dandy!

Train a horse?
But of course!
Poor Landish died of fright...
served him right...