RIP Mr Charters. Fresh Air re-ran a show from 1987 with a great interview the other day. Super interesting dude. I how he gets to meet the original blues men and women he studied after they were already gone.
Claire baked and built, but I frosted and toasted-coconuted this coconut layer cake with rum syrup, vanilla bean pastry creme filling and butter cream frosting. Pretty, if I do say so myself (even though it needs to set in the fridge and get cleaned up a bit).
Thanks for the well wishes, gang. God has gone all out in arranging a spectacle for my big day -- while it is always the first day of Spring, today there is also a Supermoon and a total eclipse of the heart sun. Wow, 52 didn't seem like an important milestone, but apparently I was wrong. Cheers all!