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Glad you were able to get your chores dome in time. My company all just left. We had a nice afternoon.

Change of plans on the puppy - I’m not getting him for a few more weeks, I guess. The pup is up in Ladysmith, so when Beau makes a return trip from Bear Training Camp he’ll pick him up and bring him home to me.

So Dolly and I get the porch all to ourselves for a while. I might even move my big planters into place, as well as start some more lettuces and spinach on the shaded porch.

We are having moderate rain, with thunder and lightning, too. We tried going out to a spot that we know of to view the town fireworks, but it’s foggy, and you can hardly see in front of you. Came home and will try to watch something on TV. Saw a few fireworks that people are doing from their own homes. Several were very impressive. Between the fog, the storms, wet roads, and inebriated folks, we decided to turn around and find something on TV. I think the DC show will start around 11.

Well, I’ll be darned. The rain diminished to light rain in time to head in for the show (1/2 hour away), then very light rain for the show itself (45 minutes delayed), and a crowd about 1/2 the usual size (including us) got to watch it, getting a few drops on us, but not really getting wet. Some people watched from their cars. The biggest problem was avoiding and / or not slipping on muddy spots where rainwater had pooled and then run over sidewalks. There’s construction eating up quite a bit of the usual parking area, and wet areas and said construction ate up a lot of the usual viewing area, so by the just-in-time we got there, it was over a 10 minute brisk walk to a good spot to sit down and watch. Ditto to walk out. (Maybe brisker - wifey needed to pee, and we were well away from the porta-potties by the time she decide she needed to relieve herself.) It worked out ok, with a bonus that we didn’t have to spend 15 or 20 minutes getting out of the parking area and choked streets: We pretty much just drove out and then detoured slightly to a 24 hour gas station that we knew usually keeps its restrooms pretty decent. :-)

“Close call” by NWS and the people who decide “show or no show”, with rains still “around” the area, but it stopped raining fastest in about a county size area encompassing the venue. I’ll bet somebody in charge was saying a prayer or two.

We got over an inch of rain here, so, I won’t have to water today! When the 1st line of storms came through around 6-7 pm, the heavier rain hung on longest here, while we were at our friend’s small 4th of July party. It was also only about 1/2 attended, as people understandably didn’t want get caught away from home / go out in heavy t-storms. So, the food variety was more limited than usual, but there was plenty to eat, as the hosts had made enough to feed everyone not even counting food people brought. We brought home a nice “doggie bag” plus another for one of wifey’s friends who is having health issues and can’t get out much. Sort of :-( and :-) at the same time.

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