{"id":42606,"date":"2025-03-01T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=42606"},"modified":"2025-10-25T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T12:09:07","slug":"birthdays-flowers-more-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/birthdays-flowers-more-daylight\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays \/ Flowers \/ More Daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Photos taken 01 – 08 March 2025, posted online 25 October 2025. Overnight frost has arrived, and thus bird-feeding has resumed.<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March is a birthday bonanza month. This time around I turned 48 years old, so I just have a couple of years to go until the big five-oh! We also belatedly formally celebrated Emma’s 12 year birthday, and mostly totally ignored our 25th wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This first week of March was a mix of things, there was creme-puff-day, costumes for Ash Wednesday (now Halloween #2), an uncomfortable finger-ganglion cyst<\/a> (mild yuk-photo warning), gym-sessions, and very suddenly a lot more daylight, but the frost held on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday 01 March 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Yours truly, somewhat awkwardly holding birthday flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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The day began, like so many Saturdays, at “my cafe”. It’s always a little unnerving to park in the lower section, as if the conditions are just freezingly right, getting tire-traction to get out of the lot can get iffy. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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My me-time haunt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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At home I did a bit of knitting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Emma busy making a cake for her own birthday celebration the following day!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Dinner served!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I got a present!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Watching a bit of youngest-brother and his band, The Zac Schulze Gang<\/a>. It was extra fitting as his birthday was the following day!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sunday 02 March 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Supplies acquired for a small birthday party.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Emma’s cake, by Emma, all ready!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Anna’s seedlings coming along nicely under the Ikea lamp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I was in a mood for Icelandic pancakes\/crepes, so I made some. Newest sneaky trick is adding a bit of avocado oil to the dough, it makes it stick less to the pan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Ready for visitors!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Guests trickling in. It’s always a tight squeeze in our not very party-sized abode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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About to get sung to.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Cake on fire! Well, sort of.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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It was a rainbow-sprinkle cake! Yum!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Another food photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The birthday-party-star.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The best seats in the house!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Dang, the kids are growing up so fast!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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After our guests had departed, it was time to whip up some creme-puffs for creme-puff-day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Crossing all fingers and toes that they’ll rise in the oven.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Looking good!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Success, yay! Thus concluded my part in the proceedings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Decorated with chocolate, and fillings whipped up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Yum! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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All of a sudden the house was full of flowers!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Soft focus flower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Monday 03 March 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Anna’s mini-sunflowers went a little bonkers, and grew way too tall, way too fast. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The creme-puff I chose from the selection at work was some sort of a caramel-blueberry-cream combo. It was good!
This day marked our 25th Wedding Anniversary, but we were both too tired after all the celebrations to add in yet another celebration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Tuesday 04 March 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Sorry for no photo-warning, but my poor right pinky had sprung a joint-leak, much to my annoyance. The joint was apparently leaking joint-gel, making a “ganglion cyst<\/a>” that I kept banging into things, which was darned painful.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Knitting was fine, thankfully.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Adding belt-loops from decommissioned pants to pants Emma wanted to use the following day, for her Ash Wednesday<\/a> costume.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Bjarki and his buddies were going as minions<\/a>! One of his friends 3D printed googly-eye-masks!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Wednesday 05 March 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Emma as Kim Possible<\/a>, the following morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Our flowers in daylight, part 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Part 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Thursday 06 March 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Not sure what I was doing at the gym at 16:17, perhaps making up for missing a class, but it was all of a sudden very bright out!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Friday 07 March 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Friday funsies! Preacher curls keep a person humble.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Still daylight at 18:32, woop, woop!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Saturday 08 March 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Brrrrr…. I’m thankful I have a warm house to live in!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Interesting frost formations on my car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I went out for a walk that afternoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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It was a gorgeous day to go swimming!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Heading back home, post-swimming. It was too warm to have a jacket on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Operation “have Anna practice cooking before moving out” had started.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Noodles and beaten beef.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Emma being slightly suspicious of what big-sis had concocted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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It was yummy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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[Photos taken 01 – 08 March 2025, posted online 25 October 2025. Overnight frost has arrived, and thus bird-feeding has resumed.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

March is a birthday bonanza month. This time around I turned 48 years old, so I just have a couple of years to go until the big five-oh! We also belatedly formally celebrated Emma’s 12 year birthday, and mostly totally ignored our 25th wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n

This first week of March was a mix of things, there was creme-puff-day, costumes for Ash Wednesday (now Halloween #2), an uncomfortable finger-ganglion cyst<\/a> (mild yuk-photo warning), gym-sessions, and very suddenly a lot more daylight, but the frost held on.<\/p>\n

Saturday 01 March 2025<\/h2>\n
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Yours truly, somewhat awkwardly holding birthday flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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