Celebration...63º

A quiet day for us today...Weather has cooled so we can enjoy the deck and continue watering lawn and gardens as we relax...Haven't heard from Rusty this morning but he should arrive sometime today...Bobi just posted in her blog that they are headed for a water park to spend their day.

I think of years past and how we celebrated "The 4th"...As a kid we did a family picnic with soda pop and watermelon...That is the only time we were allowed to have soda pop (7-up or root beer)...We stayed close to home because there were alway cows to milk and farming to do...Harvesting the hay usually started around the 4th...The only fireworks we had were sparklers and occasionally we watched the fireworks over Payette Lake in McCall..After Herb and I got married, boating, camping, and our own fireworks display in the backyard was usually on the agenda along with picnics with friends...The first few years that Joseph started having fireworks, Herb would drop Pam and I off at the foot of the lake with our folding chairs, quilts and thermos full of hot chocolate laced with Baileys Irish Cream...The fireworks didn't amount to much but we always enjoyed a good visit snuggled under the quilts, sipping on the hot chocolate and some years watching the full moon rise over the moraine...Which quite often was more entertaining than the fireworks.

My hornet sting is nearly healed (no more benadryl) annual physical went well, healthy just too fat (as usual)...Wishing all of you a Bang Up 4th of July from Barton Heights...Hugs to All..OWAV:)