Actually, it began Thursday evening with the fireworks display at the State Habilitation Center. They generally put on at least as good a show as the city’s. We found a great place to view it.
Friday, I spent catching up on laundry, and other household chores. It was great just to relax. It felt like Saturday all day long.
We started out with a quiet July 4. Rachel took off we her friend to her friend’s family get together in the city for a pool party and fireworks. She left Paige with us. I took Paige to the newly finished refurbished kiddie park. I guess the hint of bad weather kept people away. We had the park to ourselves. My little 19 month granddaughter enjoyed the swings and slides and exhibited no fear in climbing and sliding down the bigger slides. That evening George and I grilled steaks outside just for the 2 of us (and Paige, too). We got lucky and our steaks were finished just as it rained again for the second time that day. As soon as it started getting dark we drove to our usual viewing area for the city’ fireworks. They were able to put on the performance in spite of the heavy cloud cover and distant thunder and lightning. It was interesting seeing the reflection of the colors on the clouds in the sky. I think the performance may have been quicker this year because of the impending weather.
Sunday turned out to be a day of outdoor chores for us. We went down to Slater to get the yards mowed. I went to work thinning out the irises even though that could have waited until closer to Fall. The cooler weather that followed all the previous day’s rain made me want to get that chore done. When we unloaded the mower from the trunk of the car, we discover we had a little traveler that hitched a ride. A large, female garter snake wriggled and slithered from under the mower and around the driveway until it found it’s way to the grass and disappeared. I thought of capturing it and returning it to our yard in Marshall but then thought better of that when I realised this could be a chance to introduce new blood in the local snake population.
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1. learn all I can about traumatic brain injury (TBI) so that I can help my daughter recover as fully as she can from it and also educate others about it.
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2. make a smaller ecological footprint
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3. Research my family tree
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4. catalog old family photos
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5. plant a flower garden
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6. Get into better physical condition.
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7. manage money more wisely
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8. write a family cookbook
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9. keep my house cleaner
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10. Learn to take good photographs
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11. learn to make rugs
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12. get rid of all my clutter
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13. Be a better friend
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14. travel the united states
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15. get out of credit card debt.
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16. learn how to refinish furniture
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17. Sell at least one thing on ebay.
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18. Send a message in a bottle
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19. Finish fixing up our vintage houses and move into one and using the other as a rental house..
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20. Periodically Reflect on at least 5 things for which I'm grateful.
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21. Write a note to my younger self about something I know now that I didn't know then
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22. Make an entry about each of the people I’m subscribed to explaining why they are interesting or amusing and worth subscribing to.
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23. For Girl in the Curl: Prayers for a full recovery & Wellness Energy
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24. Give 10,000 cheers
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26. have a three-word-maximum for comments for the day, July 1st
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27. Wish HippieChick a totally pugtastic, baconriffic, domestically organized birthday on July 5th!
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28. Begin and keep up a BLOG right here on good ole 43 Things.
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29. list 50 women little girls should admire instead of symbols of stupidity and weakness
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30. Post random pictures I've taken of people, places and things that interest me.
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31. List 100 things, besides not having any money, that piss me off or unduly annoy me.
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1. A nice 3 day holiday weekend. Especially since this is traditionally the busiest time of the year for us. Maybe I should be thanking the slower economy for making this possible for the first time in years.
2. We are now eating zuchini out of our own garden and will soon have bell peppers and tomatoes as well.
3. A fine fireworks display put on by our city. It didn’t get rained out as feared.
4. Needed rain for area farmers’ crops. And our gardens, too.
5. The antics put on by our cats. Sometimes, it is quite a show.
They say the first clue to a dying ecosystem is the absense of frogs and toads. No fear. our garden seems to be overrun with them everytime it rains.






