Fourth
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So, This Year, The Dog Wore A Life Jacket
In last summer’s 4th of July Parade, Rosie jumped shipped, and caused us all to panic. So, this year, we kept her on the shore… While this dog sailed by. Safe, in his life jacket.
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UPDATE: Yes, Rosie is Fine
We had planned for this year’s boat parade, that Rosie could join, if we towed the canoe behind us. Everyone was game. Except Rosie, who jumped ship before she had a chance to even make one lap around the lake and make her appearance. So, we continued without her, while Rosie waited on the dock.
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So, they just ignored us
We tried, and tried and tried, but we just couldn’t get those fishermen caught in the boat parade to wave. They just turned their boat around, and ignored us.
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A hot chocolate fourth
The sun tea sat in its glass pitcher on the edge of the deck, miraculously turning to its dark brown hue, without the presence of the sun. No one drank a drop of that elixir; favoring hot chocolate with cinnamon sticks instead. The air was cold. The sky was a dark gloomy gray. We sat on the dock with sweatshirts wrapped around us, and we said things like, “I’d prefer this over 92 degree humidity.†Sunshine would have made a nice addition. Thankfully, the rain held off. The evidence that the gray sky dampened our spirits was found in the pile of potato sacks, still thrown in a heap in…
