last year i had people over for holiday festivities and it rained all the livelong day.\u00a0 we sat around in the screened porch and watched the rain, went down to look at the waterlogged boat, and finally drove over to the DAV to watch the fireworks.\u00a0 it was so rainy and the clouds were hanging so low that we could only barely make out the fireworks overhead.<\/p>\n
yesterday the weather was fine, except too hot for some to be outside.\u00a0 a few of us took a lovely boat ride in the early evening and the weather was nice out over the lake.\u00a0 but then we ate dinner, and those sitting out on the deck were very, very warm.\u00a0 the breeze had died down and the humidity was about 230%.\u00a0 it sort of felt like my face was melting.<\/p>\n
after eating way too much delicious food including rotel dip which in my opinion is all you really need for a good meal, the rain started.\u00a0 BUCKETS of rain poured from the sky.<\/p>\n
COME ON HERE.\u00a0 it rained and rained and rained, and so i had a big group of people sitting around my living room.\u00a0 how to entertain them?\u00a0 because of course i can’t just let them sit and chat, i must ENTERTAIN!\u00a0 no wonder i get stressed about having parties.\u00a0 i showed them the making the cake video (HAVE YOU WATCHED IT YET?\u00a0 I FORBID YOU FROM READING STUFF ON THIS SITE TILL YOU HAVE!!!), and then i thought it’d show them excerpts from randy’s happy birthday video.<\/p>\n
afterwards i served them leftover randy’s birthday cake.\u00a0 i’d also made a big chocolate chip pan cookie, a low-sugar chocolate cake for kevin, and lovely gena brought a sugar-free strawberry pie.\u00a0 lots and lots of dessert.<\/p>\n
and then ted the dog showed up.\u00a0 kevin said he was outside in the back yard.\u00a0 ted is the huge, sweet golden retriever who lives next door.\u00a0 he’s 13, getting awfully old, and just yesterday morning i was talking to our neighbor chris, and ted lumbered down into the lake as we talked.\u00a0 chris made a half-hearted attempt to call ted, but ted didn’t care.\u00a0 he just stood there in the lake, enjoying himself.\u00a0 but then when he was ready to get out, he struggled to crawl up over the rocks to the shore.\u00a0 it was really sad.\u00a0 but at least he’s still pretty healthy…<\/p>\n
anyway, chris was gone last night and so i called him about what to do with his sopping wet dog on our screened porch.\u00a0 he gave me complicated instructions about how to break into his house, but maybe i’d had a little too much (delicious) sangria because i couldn’t quite follow him.\u00a0 but kevin and i sat out on the porch with ted, trying to dry him off.\u00a0 i gave him a sausage which made him very happy of course, and i had to give part of it to mollie of course because the minute i picked up the sausage from the table she was all over it.<\/p>\n
finally the rain was just a drizzle and kevin and i went over and managed to break into the house and convince ted to stay.<\/p>\n
we got back and i realized that the group had had to watch ALL of randy’s happy birthday video, 28 minutes long.\u00a0 it’s very funny in places, but some of the segments wouldn’t have meaning for people watching if they didn’t know the people and\/or didn’t know randy so well.\u00a0 randy was here last night, so at least they know him, but still, that’s a lot of video to watch.<\/p>\n
we called the DAV, the fireworks were going to start in 15 minutes, so eight of us went out to the boat and wiped off the seats as best as we could.\u00a0 mollie came with us – she hasn’t minded the fireworks in the past.<\/p>\n
we waited on the lake, and waited.\u00a0 it rained a little more, but it wasn’t so bad.\u00a0 finally, after a half hour or so, they started.\u00a0 they were lovely, of course, but mollie started shaking and was really scared the whole time.\u00a0 this morning she’s sleeping here on the floor and seems to have recovered, or maybe she forgot the whole thing.<\/p>\n
there were other fireworks going off, including a very large display that somebody on the lake was obviously shooting off from their yard.\u00a0 they must be very, very rich, because they had quite a few really big fireworks.\u00a0 plus wouldn’t you have to have a permit to shoot off something that big?<\/p>\n
we sailed home, i tried to foist off as much dessert as possible one people, and kevin and i sat around a while, watching the 4th of july celebration in DC on the tv.<\/p>\n
not a bad fourth. my house is still sparkling clean, and my only plan for the day is to do NOTHING.<\/p>\n
and to try to not eat any cake.\u00a0 it’s almost 10 already and i haven’t had any so far…<\/p>\n
ok then,<\/p>\n
monday morning grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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