Happy July 4th!!!

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July 4th...Just A Bit Bittersweet...

The town that I grew up in had an amazing celebration for this holiday...in fact it still does. It's usually a festival that lasts at least three days. Of course it starts with a parade! And ends with fireworks!

There are rides and games and a pancake breakfast and bingo and everyone is there! And as we grew up and went away to college...we still met friends there over the years. You just knew that people made it a point to be there for July 4th.

My dad loved this holiday and spent the day cooking and prepping the back yard and getting ready for his own fireworks display. There was a refrigerator in his garage that was stocked with fireworks. My mom hated it...my dad could not wait to set them off. And every year his stash would get bigger and louder.

When we were all home for that holiday and he had my brothers and Dennis to "assist" the smoke was so thick we could barely see. And every single year my dad bought sparklers for me...they remain to this day my favorite July 4th tradition. I still remember the pinches of pain from the sparks on my arms...which brings me to this...found on Pinterest...a safe way to hold sparklers.
Who knew?


So...in our little family for tomorrow...we have flags out and our menu is set and we are going to set up our kiddie pool by the hammock by the pond and grill and have root beer floats and maybe light a sparkler or two!

I want to set up croquet but it's too too hot!

I think I will always love the Fourth Of July!


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Books...Breads...Bovines...

Leisurely reading this...still...



It's one of those massive huge heavy hard to hold books...thank goodness it's on my iPad...lol...

These were added to the stack this week. I am being a bit of a rebel with the stack...I am not making any promises about when a book will be read. What's the worst thing that can happen? An army of publishers email yelling at me?

That might be fun, actually!

These beauties are from Amazon Vine...I love Vine's system because I have time to read them, post a review easily and move on to the next one! Every one of these is the perfect summer book.


















We finally sighted one of the ladies who bake bread!!!



Sunday at approximately 12 noon...she was in her yard when we popped in to buy bread!

Of course I annoyed her with far too many questions like how did she get started and did she need an apprentice...at that point Den was dragging me out..harrumph!
We bought French bread, sun dried tomato bread and the most amazing brownies I have ever had! We freeze them and eat them as needed.
And they have been needed lately!

Next...off to the dairy for farm fresh milk...and cucumbers and tomatoes and peppers and butter and cheeses...all made and grown there.
I do have a fondness for cows...and tomatoes. Right now the tomatoes are tunnel grown...but still really good!

Tunnel grown? Grown in a tunnel?





This post has exhausted me!
I probably could have made three posts from it...sorry!


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Sunday...And It's A Steamy One...

We went to a concert last night...we saw Chris Robinson...who used to be married to Kate Hudson and who is still in the Black Crows but loves to play with other musicians in his off time...whew!
Did you know that he performs barefooted?
Dennis told me that he plays Southern Rock. The music was good but loud and...did I say LOUD? Really really really loud!
My head is still sort of humming. We did not last the entire concert...he played a long set...took a long break...and came back for another long set...it was almost eleven when he started the second part...so after a few songs...we left.
We were tired...and this concert place is so cool and so weird at the same time...you have set seats but you can move around to tables and eat if you want to...drink lots if you want to...you can sit on sofas or at high tables or stand and dance in the aisles if you choose to...there were lots of people sort of dancing by themselves...
which sort of freaks me out...because I am such a rule follower...I like to sit and listen and watch...in other words I behave!
I am not a get up and dance around kind of person...I listen and I count stuff...last night I counted faces in the ceiling of this theatre...I counted 54 human faces, 10 sort of not human faces and one horse!
Do I know how to have fun at concerts or what?
Totally wiped out right now...watching tv and reading...it is so hot here...you can barely breath outside.
Still reading this...I am still loving it...



We think Lucy is mad at us because she has found a new friend in one of the other bedrooms.
She has been with her new pal all day!
I can't figure out what I think she is thinking.




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Maine Memories!

Waking up in Portland, Maine...Lucy perusing the room service breakfast menu...wondering if it's too early for tuna!

She was very possessive over the remote!!!


Camden Harbor...is always so beautiful.


Harbormaster's house...the yellow one...the red one is ice cream and hot dogs!


Camden Library off in the distance.



I love trip memories...do you?

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