AN Irish Birthday

My youngest brother has a birthday coming up later this week. He was almost a St Patrick's Day baby. The joke in our family always was that my dad, who was of Scotish decent, didn't want him born on the 17th. He drove my mom, Irish decent, and us to her mother's house and made sure to hit every bump along the way. Dad always said this was why he was born on the 16th. A compromise was made and his middle name is Patrick to make up for missing the date.

Happy Birthday

In one of my other posts, October 2015, I talked about Jim's frog collection and the green VW.  Although I used this card for something else, I thought it was a good one to post for his birthday post.

We celebrated last night with our friends.  Three of the four of us have January birthdays so dinner and a movie have become the traditional way to celebrate.

Frog Collection

MANY years ago Jim started a frog collection.  It happened by accident and here is the story as he told me.  He had an old VW bug that he painted green using a sweeper.  How an electric sweeper turns into a paint sprayer is beyond me, but that is a different story.  After it was painted, he put frog decals on it.  From then on his family started buying him frogs.  We still have some of those frogs, but at least they have stopped buying him more.  I will admit though that I have added a few to his frog family.  He had to make a stained glass frog.