Fourth of July, cont.

Pat, Nancy, and Jane joined us for the afternoon and evening. We started our afternoon throwing snap-pops on the driveway, eating Bugles with Nancy’s olive dip and Hilda’s caramel corn, and watching Terry light snakes with a propane torch. He wasn’t going to mess around with the charcoal lighter this year! Here is a group picture.

Back row: Nancy, Pat, Jane, Terry; front row: Dad, Mom, Me

We toured the garden next. One upside of the continuing drought is that we have, for once, been able to keep up with the weeding.

West end: pumpkins and corn

East end: onions, potatoes, tomatoes (which look bedraggled from the drought)

We dug one of the garlic bulbs for Nancy.

Nancy's garlic

For supper, Terry cooked beef filets on the grill.

Beef filets on the grill

Pat presented me with a Happy Birthday wine glass. We missed game night in June, and this was a late celebration. “And whoever’s birthday it is that month, they get to use the special glass,” she explained. What a fun!

Happy Birthday glass

When it got dark, we watched the fireworks in Sharon (at least the ones that cleared the trees) and the fireflies. Another great day with friends.
p.s. Finally we got some rain overnight!

A good rain at last! Boy, we needed it!