There will be a spanking line, so get ready!!! xoxo

Happy Birthday Ric, and get better soon!!!

Hey Ric, happy BD to ya and many, many more to come. Get well soon. Cheers to you!

Happy Birthday, Ric. And all best wishes for better health and a good year for you and your beloved.

Hey...happy birthday Ric, who not only makes us banners and even designed my website for my business; he also is one of our best political watch dogs here on OS, keeping open his ever vigilant eyes and reporting for us all...

Marvelous job, Cathy. Thanks very much for this, Ric will love it.

Ric, again wishing that your birthday is the beginning of better days. Good thoughts and prayers headed your way, as always.

Great Job, Cathy. Ric is the consiense of OS, and he is missed. Happy Birthday, Ric!!

Happy Birthday Ric!
Great job Cathy--nice haikus!
I had forgotten about "birthday spankings."
I do recall "a pinch to grow an inch," but that never worked on me. Maybe it's just for the guys...
;-)

Happy Birthday, Ric, don't enjoy the spankings too much. Ah, what the heck, go ahead and enjoy!!!

Yes, Ric, Happy Birthday and speedy recovering. We're all very glad you were born!

Balloons AND Haikus AND cake - this post is a great birthday tribute, Cathy and exactly what Ric deserves!

Beautiful, Cathy.

Happy Birthday Ric.

Rated.

Cathy,
You are a gem of a human being. Thanks for this opportunity to say Happy Birthday to Ric.

Ric,
You are an OS institution now - like it or not - and very much appreciated. Happy Birthday. May complete healing and vibrant health visit you and your dear wife before you even read this post.

Ric, Ric, he's our man
If he can't do it...
Well, yes he can!

Ric. Is. Awesome. Happy B-day, man!

RicTresa rules! Happy birthday Ric, and many more.

Thank you Cathy for your thoughtfulness and caring, I'm touched and not just in the head.

Thank you one and all if I have said it once, I have said it a dozen times, you people are the best.

Happy Birthday Ric!

Sorry to learn that you have had a fall, it must be hard to bear when you are already in such pain, all the time. But still we must go on and find joy in life, and how glad we all were when your beloved came home after her recent health scare. You are a brilliant man with a loving heart, though we have never met physically I am proud to know you.

Proof positive here! There is really big love here on the OS and our Ric deserves so much good, love, health and happiness. A ton of it!

You all clearly rock and your kind words are the best ever! Thanks for collectively wishing Ric a very happy birthday, along with all the wishes for healing and kicking pain's ass! Ric is one over the top gifted individual, generous to a fault, keen observer of life and knows the rare gift of loving completely. This and so much more is what we witness in his contributions here, in his writing and what is in his heart.

Happy birthday.

Big deal... My birthday is today! I was born one year after Marie Osmond, at nearly the exact time...

Margaret Thatcher was born today and Chris Carter and Sammy Hagar too. Paul Simon, John Ford Coley, Ari Fleischer, Nancy Kerrigan and the original LL Bean and a whole host of others... It's also 'Peach Day' in France...

Happy Birthday Ric and all Libras!!

Sorry to be in such a snit...