Happy 4th of July! We actually psuedo-celebrated this year. No fireworks, unfortunately. I really miss shooting off some loud stuff, but that’s a big no-no up here. Pretty sure the neighbors would show up with swords and pitchforks if they heard a firecracker go off. You COULD cross the county line and get some “safe and sane” fireworks, (i.e. “boring,”) but even those are illegal up here. Can’t argue really. It hasn’t rained since April, it wouldn’t end well. We did actually attend the Pleasant Valley parade this year though, and that was a blast. It’s an annual event, but we’ve never quite made it the mile up the road to watch it. Not much of an excuse this year though. We had nothing better to do, and it was like 70 degrees out. Not sure what happened with the cool weather, but I ain’t asking questions, just enjoying it. So yeah, the parade was a lot of fun. Very small town, local thing. Mostly kids riding decorated bikes, horses and cows, people throwing candy out the back of trucks, that sort of stuff. It only lasted about 30 minutes, which is roughly the same as my attention span. After it ended the weather was just too nice to leave, so we sat around on the patio at Bones until traffic cleared. Solid holiday for us!
Unfortunately, such a strong start to weekend completely knocked the wind out of us for the next few days. We didn’t leave the house Saturday or Sunday, just kind of sat around. Did some (very) light chores, watched some baseball, and spent ample time just sitting on the patio. We did talk about joining a motorcycle ride on Saturday, but I chickened out. The ride email started out “This is a challenging ride,” and I quit reading. We’ll get ’em next weekend.
