Happy 4th of July

I awoke this morning with the strange feeling I needed to start drinking beer and eating hotdogs. Then I realized what day it is.


The kids are all out of town, working, or somewhere else. Doesn’t matter with Marilyn. She has enough food for an army, in case one shows up. She’s grilling burgers on the back porch on a $5 dollar Hibachi grill she bought at Wal-Mart. Bet everything will still taste wonderful.

Still smarting about her favorite cook’s recent social problems, she prepared Paula Deen’s famous potato salad. There’s also watermelon and strawberries for desert. No Vidalia onions at the store for some reason. Oh well!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY, everyone! Hope you are having as much fun as us.

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July 4, 2010

It’s a gorgeous night here in central Oklahoma. The full moon has waned, but is still large and beautiful. I don’t think I have ever seen so many fireflies, even back home in Louisiana when I was a child


I had drinks with my friends Terry and jerry tonight at Louie’s, here in Edmond. As always, with pretty Merideth waiting on us, I had a bit too much to drink. Marilyn, wonderful cook that she is, had a spring salad waiting for us when we finally made it to my house.

Sunday is the fourth of July, perhaps the most seminal holiday this country has. History is piling up on me. I feel it’s weight and I am chastened.

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