Jim and I were born on the same day of the same year. (Honest. Our marriage license application caused all kinds of trouble because they were sure we had made a mistake.)
We celebrated our 70th birthday last week–feels like a big one. We are so lucky to be still here, and still relatively healthy. Lucky, lucky us. And lucky, lucky me to have found Jim.
Love you, babe. Best thing that ever happened to me. Sorry for the fuzzy photo, was very dark in the restaurant. (But fuzzy might be a good thing really. . . Sort of like vaseline on the lens?)
Helen says
Happy Birthday to you both I wish you well
Deborah Graber says
you both look fabulous! Congrats and here’s to many more!
Chris from Boise says
Congratulations and belated happy birthdays! In dog years (if the old wives tale were true), you’d be merely ten. 🙂
Frances says
Happy birthdays – hope it was a lovely day, and that the coming year is a good one.
Jan says
It was meant to be <3 <3 Happy birthdays! That is a beautiful photo!
Nic1 says
Happy birthday to you both, 70 years young!
Anne Resseau says
Happy Birthday to both of you. Wishing your journey together to be filled with happiness and health. Peace!
Melf says
Happy birthday to both of you!
Ishy Creo says
The dogs are keeping you young! Many, many more to you both!
Kandy says
Happy Birthday to both of you! May there be many more coming at you. I turned 71 in March of this yr and I must say, I believe lots of working with shelter pups, keeps me in pretty good shape and definitely helps my outlook on life. Pets and all animals are good medicine.
patrick says
congrats! You lovebirds.70 is just a number!
(P.S.Lisa and I have the same birthday as well)
Jill says
Happy Birthday
Reach the same milestone next week
Same gratitude for reaching it with relatively few problems
Happy returns to both of you
Chloe says
Happy Birthday! Just celebrated my 60th!
Love the picture. You look so close , so loving. Made me happy!!
Ralph A Matacchieri says
Happy Birthday to the both of you from all of us here at the house.
Mary Beth Stevens says
Oh, these birthdays! They do seem to accelerate and accumulate, don’t they?😊. But you both look blissfully happy. And isn’t it wonderful having all of this accumulated wisdom that we collect over the years!
Nancy says
Happy Birthday to both of you!! I hope you have an amazing year!! 🎂🎂🎂🎂
Julie M. Palais says
Congratulations and Happy Birthday! It was good to see you in Madison back in October. Julie Palais
Maria says
Congratulations and happy birthday! Truly a fantastic reason to celebrate!
Sarah Todd says
WOW Happy Birthdays ! it is wild to be of an certain age..I’m about to turn 60 and yet don’t feel like an old lady yet, thank goodness for the dogs and sheep in my life they keep me moving and in touch with my heart and JOY. Happy Happy here’s to many more.
KC Wilson says
Remember the old saying, “If you have your health you have everything”? When we all were much younger it didn’t seem like such a big deal. Now it’s ringing closer to home and that saying means something. Enjoy your birthdays, stay healthy, try to stay out of hospitals, laugh a lot.
Helena says
Happy Birthdays! I will be joining you at 70 in a couple of months–it seems like a big deal, so I have to remind myself that I have been celebrating ‘my 70th Halloween’ for example, for the past year. Congratulations…and yes, fuzzy is good at our age!
Joan says
Happy Birthday!!! My late husband and I also were born on the exact same day and year as each other. Once when we were both at the doctor getting vaccinations or some routine thing, the receptionist must have noticed the birth-dates asked if we were siblings. which at first seemed an extremely odd question to ask a couple. When we said were were husband and wife and explained we were born on the same day and year, she said she had noticed the birth dates and assumed we were twins. Now maybe married couples grow to look alike, BUT my husbands ancestors were middle eastern and mine European and no one ever though we were related before. New privacy rules probably lessen doctors receptionist questions about birth dates and who is related to whom, but it still happens. We humans are fascinated with kinship, with DNA tests now being the rage, and a, us and them, mentality being prevalent in my country’s politics. I have often wondered if dogs can smell or otherwise determine kinship. Just what information does all that pee mail contain?
Trisha says
Wonderful story! And I’ve been surprised at how many married people share birthdays. I think I’ve heard from four others now on the blog and Facebook. We should start a club!
Trisha says
It IS a big deal! As a zoologist trained in biology, making it to old age feels like a great victory. We should be so proud (versus the ridiculous shaming our culture does now related to age.) 70’s rock!
Trish Kalhagen says
Happy Happy Birthday!! That is a great one to celebrate! Amazing how you also share the same birthday. Love it!
Shari says
Such a sweet post! Happy Birthday to you both!!!
Gayla says
Happy birthday to you both! In the Japanese culture, the 60th birthday marks a sort of ‘new beginnings.’ So you’ve both been on your second life path for a decade.
I hope the two of you awake everyday with the joy of eleven year olds on summer vacation!
Katy says
Mazel tov to you both, and many more!🌟
LisaW says
That’s only 10 in dog years 😉 Still pups. Happy Birthday(s). You look so happy.
My husband and I are one year and one day apart, and so for one day a year, we are the same age. If I were a betting person, I would have bet on these numbers: In the year 2000, we had known each other 20 years, and we were a combined age of 82 on that one day, which divided by 2000 = .041, which was our age for a day!
Renee says
Happy, Happy birthday to both of you 70-year-youngsters. What a milestone and a great occasion to look back on all you’ve done (and forward to what comes next . . .).
Linda Lipinski says
Happy birthday and many more!!
Margo Harris says
Happy Happy Birthdays to you both!!!
Wonderful!
soyoung says
happiest birthday wishes to you both! :o)
HFR says
Happy Birthday to both of you and many, many more.
Barb Stanek says
Oh how fun! Happy birthday, both of you!!!
Judi McLachlan says
Happy birthday to you both. Best Wishes for the year ahead…
Monika & Sam says
*♪ღ♪Best birthday wishes to you both! ♪ღ♪*
Melanie Hawkes says
Happy birthday to both of you! I’m 39 today. Have a year to plan my 40th. After several health issues over my life I celebrate every birthday I have, especially now that I’m healthy. I think everyone should, rather than think of it as getting old, celebrate the fact that you’re still alive and living well.
Maureen Finn says
Happy Birthday, Patricia and Jim! I, too, celebrated my birthday last week – us November babies are ageless! Best wishes to you both!
Helen says
Happy belated 70th to the both of you! I wish you exactly what Gayla says: that you wake every morning with the excitement of 11 year olds on summer vacation!
Lucille White says
I have just found this in my long list of mail I haven’t gotten to, but perhaps Thanksgiving is the PERFECT day to have found it! I wish you both many many more years of happiness ahead. I am thankful for all the things I have learned through your marvelous books and blogs. You two have been blessed with love, true life, which eludes many all their lives through. Keep on being who you are, and you will be blessings to many who will never see your photo or your blog. You have enriched my life, and my best friends as well. Thank you and keep on loving. That’s the true ” fountain of youth”!
Diane says
Oh wow…I’ve been away from reading the blog for a while. Happy belated Birthday to you both! Keep young through love.