Birthday

I am still coming to terms with it.  Though after 68 years you would think it would be done and dusted.  But no.  Every year I question it more.
Getting older that is.  Birthdays. I mean, do I celebrate each time an appliance gets a year older?  No, I tend to celebrate when it is new.  Yet here I am celebrating another birthday.  Getting longer in the tooth (not that my teeth are getting longer but I think you knew that) 
But there is one element I am thankful for with the celebration – presents.  There is actually more than that I am thankful for like friends, longevity etc but presents is part of the deal and I will take it.
Merril has a few things wrapped which I will open later.  I got a Lowes gift card from my bro.  One thing I asked Merril for was a display cabinet to display my stamps.  It arrived early.  Delivered to the door in flat pack form.  We knew it was pointless me pretending to wonder what that was.  We both knew and set aside a time to put it together.
We are attempting to purchase everything with glass substitutes.  Hence this cabinet is made of bamboo (much lighter but very strong) and perspexs. There are a number of reasons for that.  My bro had a stroke and diabetes.  As a result he had trouble feeling.  I got rid of as much glass as I could in his home.  To a lessor extent I had a stroke and just feel better using melamine.  Lastly concrete and glass do not tend to go well together so to me less glass makes for a safer environment.
Anyway we got the cabinet and put it together.  It actually proved to be surprisingly easy to put together. We did the wrong thing once and needed to undo a bit, but it was like 10 minutes work.  I do reckon it is a clever design.
So here I am on my day off on my birthday.  I am unsure what the day will hold but I do know I will be continuing to populate the cabinet.