2021 Life Logs, Day 342: Happy 50th Birthday to Jed
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Weather: Overcast with Rain; High Temp 40, Low Temp 28 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Happy 50th Birthday to my son-in-law, Jed.
This evening we had a family birthday dinner and celebration. The boys each gave Jed a gnome because Jed loves gnomes. 
He even got a plastic gnome that had 50 rocks inside and labeled, “50 Rocks.” And Ollie game him a glass container with 50 handmade clay marbles in beautiful colors. Ollie explained these were marbles Jed could use when he starts losing his marbles! The first package he opened from his mother was a photo of him as a toddler and the actual sweater he was wearing in the photo. One of the gnomes got the honor of wearing the birthday sweater. Marti’s other package was an apron that says, “Vintage 1971 with Original Parts” with a mad money check in the pocket.
Heather game him a set of outside summer wine glasses with New Hampshire granite cubes and a granite base that you put in the freezer. You then put the cold granite cube in the glass of wine to keep it cool and place it in the cold granite base when it is warm outside. And Marti and I went in together to give Heather and Jed a winter weekend in the resort of their choice.
After dinner we headed to the basement for one last present. Heather and the boys got Jed a keyboard with a full 88 keys.
The boys have been wanting someone to play the keyboard for their basement band, and that will now be Jed. Of course, the boys will enjoy the keyboard as well, but Jed did take piano lessons when he was a youngster and can hopefully revive some of that knowledge. 
Tonight, they began working on playing a Christmas Canon together. Jonah then announced it was time for a crazy Christmas dance party with disco lights.
The incentive for that was a note in their Advent calendar for today. 
And finally, we came back up upstairs to enjoy a ‘make your own cannoli’ dessert. Happy Birthday, Jed!
FIFTY
(wait, how old?) noun
1. Only ten years old in Celsius
2. Half a century young
3. Prehistoric, but not extinct
4. Eighteen, with thirty-two years of experience
5. When your back starts going out more than you do
6. An excellent age for a bottle of wine
7. Only eight and a half years old in cat years (so pretend
you’re a cat)
8. Five perfect tens
See also: JARED GOLDSTONE, over-the-hill, nifty-fifty
