On Sat, 6 Feb 2021Dave Smith wrote:
>On 2021-02-06 Leo wrote:
>> On 2021 Feb 6, , jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> Happy Birthday to your SIL. Thanks for the pics.
>>
>> My SIL thanks you for your thoughts. Seventy is a "more significant than
>> ordinary" milestone.
>>
>My 70th birthday sort of sucked. We had planned to go out for dinner
>with my son and his fiancee. Restaurants had been closed to indoor
>dining for a few months and had reopened... with strict limits and
>controls.

Why couldn't you have planned to prepare a nice meal at home?
Dining at home is always more enjoyable than noisy busy restaurants
filled with strangers. You could have ordered a nice 70th birthday
cake from most any bakery. And it wasn't as if you had a crowd to
cook for, two extra people. Actually your son and his girlfriend
should have prepared your 70th birthday celebration otherwise you
treating them is back assward.