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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.
