Random 5 for April 20, 2025

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Clumsy — We are having relatives over for dinner today. I bought a lovely strawberry cake. I spent ten minutes picking out the freshest most beautiful cake. I delicately put it in my cart. As I was going through self-checkout, I didn’t clear the basket and it ended up flipped over. Sigh. I patched it up. Doesn’t look too back.

Part of the mouse story — When the beloved husband had to dispose of a mouse in the house when I wasn’t home, the cats had been chasing and running and knocked over the corner rack. Everything ended up on the floor. I had a beautiful plant on it with stems three foot long that covered the blue pot on the shelf underneath. That plant also fell on its head and multiple stems were broke. This is what it looks like now (plant on third shelf).

And the beat goes on! — Today is my grand nephew’s birthday. His mom, my niece, is notorious for eating the ears off of my chocolate bunnies when we were kids. She sent me a picture of a cake he had made and yep, she ate the ear!

Happy Easter to those who celebrate and Happy Sunday to those who don’t. Now for some therapy! 

53 thoughts on “Random 5 for April 20, 2025”

  4. You did all that you could to make the cake look pretty and if it tasted good who would care about how it looked?

    Love the laugh and turn the page cat. Good advice.

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  6. Happy Easter, Kate. The cake looks delicious.

    We celebrated at my sister’s house. I was in charge of bringing a big fruit salad.

    In keeping with the theme of new life, my granddaughter gave birth to a healthy baby boy, and my other daughter adopted two adorable kittens after her elderly cat died.

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  8. No worries about the cake – it still looked and tasted good. No worries about the plant – it won’t get tangled on anything, like someone walking by with hand gestures. The bunny ears story is cute. I never knew where to “start” my bunny and someone would accidentally on purpose drop it (it was foil wrapped) so that I would eat it. I wasn’t allowed any candy except holidays, so my parents were looking forward to a piece where I wanted to savor it. Well I’m a day late to wish you “National Cat Lady Day”.

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    • I wasn’t a big candy eater as a kid. I rarely ate it and never finished a whole candy bar. My mom made wonderful pastries and desserts and I preferred that. My aunt used to give me one of those bigger coconut cream eggs that you cut a slice off. it would last to July and I swear we ended up throwing it out.

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      • I had the chocolate bunny and very few, if any, jelly beans. We had Laura Secord candy stores back then, so my grandmother bought me some pastel-colored chocolate Easter suckers, so that’s about it. My Easter basket was my mom’s sewing basket and she put those little chenille chickens on the rim of it to look festive.

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  12. Uhoh on the strawberry cake basket incident – well it tastes the same even when it’s a little bit ugly due to a mishap!! I love strawberry shortcake and WAS going to make it for us to have for dessert tonight BUT forgot to get the ingredients at the grocery store this morning. I made some chocolate chip cookies instead. Love the ‘toons – especially the “how I know I have bugs in the house” – Teddy is a master bug detector but FORTUNATELY we have very few trespassers.

    Enjoy your Sunday!

    Pam and Teddy too

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  17. The cake you bought while Sasha was out in the car singing the song of her people looks delicious! Happy Easter and I hope your Easter dinner is joyful and fun. The bunny cake without the ear is funny beyond words! The kitties and bug cartoon also cracks me up 🙂

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  21. I think the expression on the bunny cake makes a lot more sense now that his ear is missing. And kudos to you for adhering to the “you break it, you bought it!” rule at the grocery store, rather than swapping cakes.

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  22. The cake will taste good even if it needed a bit of repair! And my remaining fosters were doing the same thing – following a stink bug in the room before I knew it was there. They look like wobble heads doing that – very entertaining.

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