4 July - Enjoy!

[ClockworkOrange]

Oh disappointment, I thought I was going to hear all about your celebrations over there!

Maybe you don't celebrate it that much?

Clock

[crazycanuck]

Perhaps they're still hungover?

[Tuckervill]

We're all too busy celebrating to be online!

No, I've had a really busy weekend, traveling, etc. On the 4th we were at my son's home about 150 miles from here. We didn't drive out to the lake to watch the fireworks. I was delivering to my son the Schwinn Le Tour that I rebuilt for him. It was a surprise, and he was SO thrilled. He and my other son rode bikes all around their little town square (where there was live music going on), while I hung out with my grandson. It was a low-key 4th.

Thanks for the well wishes!

Karen

[Zen]

I stayed home and watched fireworks on TV
With the dogs.

maybe i'll do something next year just so I have something to tell you about

[OakLeaf]

As it turns out neither day's fireworks were rained out, but it rained up until about 8:30 p.m. both days, and neither DH nor I had any interest in standing out in the rain waiting for the show.

So we stayed home and fixed frozen veggie burgers on the indoor grill. At least the potato salad was homemade (farmer's market new potatoes, homemade mayo, yum).

[bmccasland]

I was up in the small town my grandparents used to live in - have an aunt and a bunch of cousins who still live there. Family reunion was in my aunt's back yard. The evening of the 4th, we went to the town's celebrations which were a throw back to the WAY past - politicians giving speeches, those running for office were pressing the flesh, blue grass band played, church choir sang, Chamber of Commerce grilled hot dogs and sold sodas, and finally the volunteer fire department put on the fireworks show over the river. Was a pretty good fireworks show.

Meanwhile back at the house I was staying in (my aunt's "camp" - single wide trailer - down by the lake), my normally calm while inside dog, was trying to break out of the bathroom. I hadn't locked her in there, but apparently while wandering around, the door closed behind her. She managed to pull the door trim off the walls in her escape attempts. So saturday afternoon I got to do a repair

[Tri Girl]

Thanks for the well-wishes, Clock! Think of how different both our lives would be if we'd never fought for, or lost our bid for independence. I wonder what it would've been like...


I LOVE the 4th- mostly because I love our country, and partly because I teach American History and just LOVE every aspect of early American history. It's so interesting (and the John Adams mini series on HBO was just wonderful)!

We spent the 4th riding our bikes- is there any other way? DH did his first century, and I did 85 (I wimped out on the 100 since I'd just done 65 the day before). It was a ton of fun! We were too tuckered out to go to the hill behind our house to watch the fireworks, so we just went to bed early and listened to the booms outside our bedroom window and watched them on t.v. (it's kinda the same).