independence weekend
We celebrated the Fourth in traditional fashion. In the morning we walked a couple blocks over to Bluffview where the neighborhood has its own little parade every year. It's a simple affair, mostly just kids on bikes or tricycles, moms pulling kids in wagons and about as many dogs as kids. No motorized vehicles or music. We watched until it passed and then joined in behind.
I was suffering from allergies and didn't want to do anything except vegetate. We ate chili dogs and then went to the movie theater to see Capturing the Friedmans.
A breeze came up at dusk and it started to get pleasant out. We drove downtown and went to the top of the parking garage where Tricia works, where there was a good view of the fireworks show in Trinity Park. It seemed like an original idea to me but there were quite a few others up there, mostly families with kids. We had brought dinner with us and had a picnic while we watched.
Nights like this I usually don't sleep well, because of kids shooting fireworks illegally in the nearby park. Either there weren't any this time or I was too zonked from the allergy medication to notice.
Saturday we drove out of town to visit relatives and the change in the air did me good. We also got some much-needed rain while we were gone.
Posted by Bill Hopkins on July 6, 2003 08:04 AM
