I had cake for breakfast this morning. I also had it yesterday and Saturday. I ate some on Friday.It is a birthday cake. The chef was Dr. Robert Edwards. He baked it for Ann's birthday. It is a pound cake. Pound cakes are good anytime. This one is very special.
One year ago in early August Ann and I traveled with Bob and Jimmie Box, Robert and Dolores Edwards to Arizona to look at birds. They did not disappoint us. Southeast Arizona is a great birding place. We stayed at Cave Creek Ranch near Portal, Arizona. Dolores was already feeling the effects from ALS, but she was a trooper. It was not an easy trip for her but we were all glad she went. Today she is confined to a wheelchair and uses a talking machine to communicate.Her food is through a tube.......... but, yesterday she was at church. (So what's your excuse?)
Robert baked the pound cake while caring for Dolores. That made it extra special. He said he only made two a year and this was the second one. We were lucky! No, we were blessed...and are blessed to have Robert (my birding buddy) and Dolores (everyone's friend) as our special friends. Let's not forget Jennifer. She took on the role of Connie Hagar this last year and performed at the state Ornithological Convention here in Rockport. I wrote the monologue, but no one wanted to do it. Jennifer did, and was the star of the convention!
So you see what makes this pound cake so sweet and tasty? The folks behind it all. They are an inspiration to us , and many, many others. What they mean to Ann and I, and to all our church. is much more than "A Drop In The Bucket". (The book written by Dolores)
