The 4th of July

Happy 4th of July to all our friends.

It is our first 4th in WA, and Emmy's first 4th at all. So this is a new thing for us. A few things are different here. First, you cannot legally get any ground flowers/roses. Secondly, we haven't heard any gun shots. Lastly I haven't seen anyone throwing lit fireworks yet.

Every year for the 4th, Dad would go out and water the house down. I thought about it, and decided we only need to water the lawn good, we are in the middle of a lot of housing and things are green, ...

So we got our little pack of fireworks, enough for a little family. We had our little show, the chickens were as bad as last year. We had fun. But everyone (it seems like) has rockets of some sort or the other. So the first thing we did after our set was to get the hose out and water our duplex down as good as we could.

So all in all the 4th is going well up here. They are just REALLY into the fireworks.

PS I fully support fireworks on the fourth. I just do not want the over exuberance of our neighbors to burn our (or their, but especially our) house down.

PPS Emily even started to like the fireworks. We just need to be a bit farther way.