Happy Independance Day

I noticed the counter on the blog is about to turn to 2000 visits. It's probably an accurate count but most of the visits are from me. The unique visits counter doesn't really work properly because I am sure it recounts this computer all the time. No big deal. I'm not writing this for anyone but Susan and I AND the future owners of this house.

We are in the midst of a three day weekend. Susan and I both had to work yesterday so not much was accomplished around here. Add to the fact that we stayed up late around a stump fire and drinking, which did not compliment my aura this morning. I think we got up at ten. Yes, we missed church!

We did spend about three hours on balusters. Don't they look great?! We think so. We made it to the top of the first landing. I would say we are almost halfway done. There are a bunch of balusters upstairs. To make matters worse, we will be painting a second coat.

But now it is Fourth of July time. We generally go down to the park via bicycles and watch the fireworks. Like last year, Mark and Ron and Kelly will be joining us. We're doing a little burger barbie in the back yard before going down around...oh...whenever we feel like it. A Little Later: The bombs bursting in air were fabulous. The was a huge crowd downtown which we didn't mind because we rode the bikes down and we were in and out of there in no time. Ron and Kelly were going to ride our tandem bike but had an issue with Kelly's seat. There was also the issue of Kelly's recent Gall Bladder surgery. So they ended up driving down and meeting us. We beat them back to the house after the fireworks because of all the traffic they had to deal with.
We returned and had a little stump fire and then made it to bed at a reasonable hour.