Belated.
Mine was great. How was yours?
Contrary to Seattle's historic precedent. Summer began on the 4th instead of the 5th, making it an absolutely beautiful day. After lounging around in the morning a bit with the family, who all had the day off, we went to a barbecue picnic we'd been invited to.
There, we hung out with friends, chatted, sang God bless America, and heard my Dad give a great talk on how repentance is the necessary ingredient for God's blessing on America.
Then, right at the very end, the host showed us his cars...Yeah. You all know me, I like old cars. And he had a beauty. It was a lovely blue convertible Mercury '69 (I think). With a custom engine and very comfortable seats. Yes, the guy let me sit in it. =P And then I heard him talk about price...
"yeah, it's worth 29, and I put in 18. It's listed for 22, but I'd take 17."
Insert whirling brain. Did he really just say he'd take $1,700?!?
As my sister says, "God always makes a way of escape when we're tempted." In this case, it was by the confirmation that no, he didn't say that...he said $17,000. Shoot. :( But it was still fun.
Then, we came home, watched a movie, and attempted sparklers.
I don't remember ever doing anything but sparklers, and this year, I'd found some in a bin somewhere. The package looked like they might have been from the '80s, but we decided to try them anyway. We're probably the only people in the world that would use half a box of matches on 6 sparklers.
The wind blew a few out first. Then the sparklers wouldn't light. It came out that they may have been a little damp. Then, some of us didn't know how to do it, and we smothered a few dozen more matches.Then we got one sparkler lit, but it died before it went all the way. And so, the story continued.
Half an hour later, and half a box of matches later, all six sparklers had finally been properly consumed, leaving us with a memorable, and fun, ending to a fun day.
Happy Independence Day!
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