On my actual birthday

I went to my desk at 7:30 a.m. after a pleasant walk along the waterfront and found a birthday cake! Despite bearing an accurate number of candles (Go ahead and count them if you care) it was a real thing of beauty with friendship written all over it. Only a friend would turn on the oven when the kitchen is already over 100 degrees. What a great surprise. I shared with some co-workers. It was good cake, by the way. Homemade carrot cake. Yum.