Cheers Stoney and happy fourth to you! I know the feeling, I am also close to the hill side. The Fourth has been extra happy here, even after a monsoonal micro burst rolled through last night causing many buds to be ejected from my peppers ,I noticed my first Habanero pod forming this morning and it seems to be doing well. Fingers crossed for us all. dj

Thanks Silvia! This particular American flag is special to me as it flies over the wonderful Veteran's Park in my hometown of Marion, Ohio.

Happy 4th of July!! We normally don't do much but we have Azalea's brothers coming over so we decided to make it really fun for them. I bought a spinning teeter toter, we filled up the pool ( between kiddie and adult size ) got bubbles and even a handful of fireworks. And of course hot dogs and ice cream. Even though no fireworks display I want the kids to still have special memories of the 4th of July. Thank you to every person who has been a part of our freedom. Have a bessed day

@Sueb20 what books are you reading? Any good? I just had a week at the beach and came home Saturday morning. D17 was able to come for a few days then went home with Dh midweek to work, and Dh had an unavoidable/unexpected business meeting in Atlanta. My sons both had to work so it ended up being a vacation mostly for myself! It was actually quite nice. The weather was absolutely perfect. Nothing exciting planned today. Another beautiful day. I was up early and took one of my dogs for a long walk. Dh is smoking a pork butt so we will have pulled pork, corn on cob and potato salad for dinner, We can walk to the end of our block to see the city fireworks tonight out over the bay. D23 flew from her home in San Diego to a wedding outside of Denver over the weekend. No line at security in SD and no flight issues on the way to Denver. They fly back to SD tonight so fingers crossed they have no problems getting home.