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Happy Birthday Lars

10 years ago

Happy Birthday dear friend. Hope you are doing something special to celebrate.

~Ann

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doucanoe
10 years ago
Happy Birthday Lars!

Linda
mitchdesj
10 years ago
Have a wonderful birthday Lars, I hope you have something special planned !
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Thanks for the late wishes too! And I especially want to thank Annie for making the effort to greet me from Texas - that is very special to me. I took off from work today because I was really tired, and I don't have anything really pressing to do there. I will need to get back tomorrow, however. For some reason, I woke up at 2:00 a.m. today and couldn't get back to sleep, and so when it was time to get ready for work, I was extremely tired. This let me celebrate Mardi Gras, I guess. Lars
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Thanks for all the birthday wishes and greetings! Dinner last night went well, but DB forgot to bring his camera. I thought he would be able to use his phone, but he didn't bring that either :(. We'll try to take pictures this week-end, however. For dinner I had filet mignon, medium rare, and it was huge. I ate half of it and took the other half home, which I think will reheat fine, since I left the middle. I like eating the crusty outside parts first, and so I can make a new crust on the leftover part, which looks completely rare. I had garlic potatoes and broccoli (I ate all the broccoli first) as sides, and Kevin ordered the two lobster dish that was a special of the day. It was supposed to be an appetizer since it was a la carte, but he had it as a main course and ordered a side salad. I had New England clam chowder as my first course, which I really liked, and I gave DB half of my garlic potatoes, as the portions were huge. We even have a couple of lobster claws left over, which I will have later today. The restaurant is one year older than I am, minus two days, and they had a picture of Liberace at the entrance, and so I guess he ate there. Lars
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Happy Birthday Lars (publickman)!!!!!
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I'm definitely still celebrating, so no problem with being late to the party - it's still going on today!! The stove is scheduled to arrive today between 2:45 and 4:45 PM Pacific Time, and so it's not due for another hour and a half at the very earliest. I cleared a path, and now all I have to do is finish cleaning the rest of the kitchen, which is not essential, but will be nice. We got most of the path cleared yesterday, but there really wasn't a whole lot we had to do. Everything I moved today is easily portable - a couple of things are on casters, and so they roll in and out of place. It might be too dark by the stove is in place to take pictures today, but I can always use a flash. I think winter is over, however, as it is supposed to be 75Â° by tomorrow, but it will still be cool enough here for me to do some serious baking! Actually, it's usually not hot in the summer either - and anyway I have A/C. I'm still excited about the stove! Lars
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Death Valley is a very good vacation place, and so far we've seen lots of French, German, and Japanese tourists, as well as a few Canadians. Saturday we went to Zabriskie Point, Golden Canyon (drive through), and Dante's view - all before lunch. Then we met my friends from Utah, who had to wait to get into their room, and after lunch we went to Rhyolyte and Beatty NV with Mark and Greg. Yesterday we got an early start to go to Ubehebe Crater and decided to stop by Scotty's Castle on the way. We could not get a tour for the inside for an hour an a half, and so we only did the outside self-guided tour, which I felt was enough. Then we went on to the craters, which Kevin and I had explored before, but Mark and Greg made quick work of hiking down and back up the 500 feet of elevation change in the crater. Kevin and I went toward the smaller craters. Next we went to the racetrack on a very bad gravel road that took three times as long as it should have, but we got some great photos there of the "floating" rocks. After that, we decided to make a loop across Hunter Mountain to have dinner in Panamint Springs, instead of turning around and going back the way we came. The six mile road from Teakettle Junction (where we had lunch) was a dead end, but we decided to take the other road, which Kevin and I had taken 12 years ago and almost got stranded in mud from melting snow at the top of the mountain - and we got lost along the way at a "Y" in the road that went to a dead-end at a cliff where there was a dilapidated building and a rusted out 1920s car. To be continued - computer and internet service acting up! Lars ETA: The road we chose to cross Hunter Mountain was closed due to damage from rock slides, floods, and landslides, which removed or covered parts of the road. There was no warning of this from the Teakettle Junction end of this road. Thanks for the warning to stay safe, but it came perhaps a bit too late! Here is a link that might be useful: Typical road in DV This post was edited by publickman on Mon, Feb 25, 13 at 13:01
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ruthanna_gw
10 years ago
Wishing you a very happy birthday, Lars, and a stellar year until the
next one.
sleevendog (5a NY 6aNYC NL CA)
10 years ago
I'm enjoying the nice weather your day brings! Prepping to rotis a leg of lamb after digging out the grill of its snow bank.
Cheers, enjoy!
User
10 years ago
mustangs81
10 years ago
A Very Happy Birthday Wish To LARS!!! size=>color>size>color>color>color>color>color>
Kevin--Are you listening?
Cathy
foodonastump
10 years ago
Happy Birthday!!!
party_music50
10 years ago
Happy Birthday, Lars! Hope you are able to spend it with great weather, drink, food, and friends! :)
bcskye
10 years ago
Happy Birthday, Lars! Hope its the greatest one ever.

Madonna
compumom
10 years ago
Happy Birthday to you!! Enjoy this beautiful day and do something special!
I hope all your wishes come true!
Ellen
chase_gw
10 years ago
Have a wonderful day Lars!

Happy Birthday and tons of best wishes to a truly nice person.

Sharon
Lars
10 years ago
Thanks, Ann, and everyone! We started yesterday with brunch at a new Vietnamese restaurant in Culver City, half a block from where Kevin works. I had a crispy crepe made with rice flour that was filled with crab and mushrooms and served with lettuce, for eating as a lettuce wrap. Kevin's meal came with a pork roll, which he gave to me, since he doesn't eat pork. I will definitely be going back to this place, but Kevin will probably go often, since it is so close to his work.

Today we are going to Paiche Restaurant in MDR for Peruvian Izakaya food. We've been there several times, including for our sister's birthday last year, and it is one of my favorite places.

We have to go soon, since brunch ends at 2:30, but I will report back later.

Thanks again for your wishes!

Lars
diinohio
10 years ago
Happy Birthday Lars!

Di
dedtired
10 years ago
Happy birthday, handsome!
cloudy_christine
10 years ago
Happy birthday!
annie1992
10 years ago
Happy Birthday, my dear, I'm glad you are having a good day. Celebrate well, I'm sending a birthday hug to you!

Annie
Lars
10 years ago
Here's a link to my birthday brunch, although I cannot get Photobucket to get the order right.

This was my favorite dish - the tuna cerviche, although it looks like sashimi. The sauce for this is very intriguing, and I am going to try to make it. I know it has yuzu, wasabi, yellow chilies, and possibly garlic in it. I have several yuzu fruits on my tree, and I will start experimenting with those. I also have bottled yuzu juice that I bought at my local Japanese market, in case I need more. The yuzu fruits do not have much juice, and so I may have to use some of the zest. I will freeze whatever rinds I do not use, as I will not get more yuzu until next year.

Lars

This post was edited by publickman on Mon, Feb 24, 14 at 11:40
colleenoz
10 years ago
Tried the link to your brunch but it didn't work :-(

Glad you had two wonderful birthday meals! Best of wishes for the coming year with many, many more birthday meals to come!
Lars
10 years ago
I think I updated the link, or try the one below.

Lars

Here is a link that might be useful: Birthday brunch
colleenoz
10 years ago
That works, thanks! A shame the cauliflower was bland, I love cauliflower. The Ensalada Rusa looks really interesting too, not really what I think of when I think "Russian Salad". The shrimp and crab look especially yummy. Lucky you!
Solsthumper
10 years ago
Lars, I hope your day was amped by your family, friends and good food.

Happy belated birthday to a (consistently) kind man!

Sol
kitchendetective
10 years ago
Belated best birthday wishes from here, too. Was celebrating DS2's birthday!
Lars
10 years ago
Thanks for the belated wishes as well - I guess I got my last birthday present today, which was a new crown for one of my teeth!

Sol, my family was good to me this year - Kevin got me a book that I like very much, and my sister sent me a package that arrived yesterday, thus prolonging my BD a bit.

KD, was your son's birthday the same day as mine? I know that Sooz was celebrating someone's birthday last week-end also, but she did not say whose. I have had a lot of friends with birthdays right around mine, and Kevin's is exactly three weeks after mine (except on leap years), and we are planning to go to Palm Springs for that.

Colleen, "Russian Salad" was more like a Salad NiÃÂ§oise, in that it had potatoes, green beans, tuna, HB egg, etc. but it had a different dressing on it.

All in all, I did have a very happy birthday. Last year my birthday was the first one I had had after my parents passed away. My birthday was also their anniversary, and so it was rather sad - so we went to Death Valley. Here's a picture of me on my previous birthday in an abandoned building in Leadville (ghost town) DV.

Lars
KatieC
10 years ago
Glad you had a good birthday, Lars. Happy Belated-As-Usual Birthday!
John Liu
10 years ago
Happy birthday, belatedly!

How was that tuna ceviche done? Without changing the color and opacity of the fish?
sally2_gw
10 years ago
I was away over the weekend, so I missed this. I'm glad you had a wonderful birthday, Lars. I'll go ahead and wish you belatedly a happy birthday anyway.

Sally

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