Birthday Hat

July 18th is my husband’s birthday. This 18th being a Friday in July, we would normally have been at the Edensong concert series presented by the Queen City Balladeers at the Seasongood Pavillion in Eden Park. (See the link) Jim prefers not to be mentioned on his birthday but every few years when his birthday falls on one of these Fridays someone announces it from the stage, making Jim very uncomfortable. We, however, missed this Friday’s concert because Jim was asked to sit in with the Dave Hawkins Band at Molly Malone’s in Pleasant Ridge. Jim did a fine job even though he had never played with Dave before. Peg has played fiddle with Dave for many years but has recently joined our band, The Sweeneys, as well, and Jim has played along with her fiddle tunes a few times. All in all, Jim's birthday seemed to go very well and we all wore our invisible birthday hats so the secret was safe. At the end of the evening we toasted his years with some 12 year old Jameson whiskey! Ahh, the good life.