sky rockets in the night…
Please don’t tell me if that title got you singing a certain 70’s fluff song, OK?
Hope everyone had a good 4th of July and a nice day off (if indeed you had yesterday off). We didn’t do a whole lot. Like I said, I didn’t have the big barbecue this year. It was just family and then a couple friends came by for the fireworks show.
I had a few things to light off in celebration. Well maybe more than a few! And here’s a shot of the whole gang. Yeah, the girls are getting so big, seems like every time I see them they’re an inch taller… Sam and Danny enjoyed the show big time, as always. I had some three inch mortars we lit and they were incredible, I’m talking a two hundred foot spread in the sky and they climb to almost three hundred feet! I’m definitely getting a lot of those for next years show.
Maggie seemed kind of bored by it all. I guess it starts to seem the same after you’ve seen it year after year. The boys have fun lighting the stuff so they’re more involved with it. Sam is going upstate for a few weeks to work at his Aunts and Uncles motel and spend some time at the lake with his grandparents. I’m going to miss him, the house always feels empty when he’s not there. Even though sometimes it seems like we only talk when I’m checking to see if he’s done his chores or say “yes, you can go out, don’t be too late”. Plus now I have to feed and water the dog every day and mow the lawn, but it won’t kill me to push a lawnmower, I did it for a lot of years when he was younger.
The garden is growing like crazy! I picked a couple bell peppers and a few hot ones to make some home fries for breakfast yesterday. This is the first time I’ve grown “Portugese Hot Peppers” and they aren’t bad. I had a hard time finding any jalapeno plants this year. Everyone was sold out for some reason. I have a whole container full of habanero’s for making hot sauce and that’s it for hot peppers. I skipped the cayennes this year as I really don’t use them for cooking so why bother… I took some pics of the garden and will post them when I get home tonight, a progress report kind of, and I’ll put the pics up next to them of when I planted it so you can see how big everything has gotten.
OK, I need to take a walk around here and see what’s going on. Have a good one.
