[NFBWV-Talk] Birthday

[Ed McDonald]

Thanks to all for their greetings and good wishes on the occasion of this milestone birth anniversary--including messages on this list, several thoughtful phone calls and an ecard from a former boss.

The weekend "celebration" has been a busy and bountiful one, set against the backdrop of plans for the Mountain Streams Music Celebration, a benefit concert for Mountain Streams Radio, scheduled for next weekend on our local college campus. I began yesterday morning by doing a live interview about the concert with the host of a Pittsburgh radio show that we air on Mountain Streams. The interview was the first successful use of a new piece of audio hardware that I have been trying to pair up with a computer, and I guess it went pretty well for an old and sometimes forgetful guy!

Much of the day was spent in studio, writing and recording a series of hour-long radio shows promoting the concert, based on music and interviews with the performers.

At Karen's suggestion, however (it really didn't take much persuading), I took time out for a nice dinner at our favorite nearby restaurant, and we walked home with a backpack full of birthday cupcakes--a specialty of the restaurant owner. We topped off the day with cup cakes accompanied by wine in our fanciest goblets.

This morning's breakfast consisted of apple dumplings from our recent Apple Harvest Festival, followed by several more productive hours in studio and our usual Sunday evening dose of old-time radio. And sometime along the way, I even found a temporarily misplaced thumb drive.

 As the weekend comes to a close, I report these things as merely a reminder of how a combination of a good wife and a series of simple events can make for a fine birthday celebration.

Forever young!

Ed

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