Well, this was by far the best 4th of July in recent memory. I am not a big fan of the 4th of July it always brings out the more extreme sides of patriotism and religiosity, neither of which I am a very big fan of.
Today however, was nothing like that.
It was raining when I woke up and the temperature stayed right around 80 all day. The humidity was totally worth the grey skies and the cloud cover. I headed over to my Dad's for, you know, fun times on the 4th of July. I got there and found the house empty. Apparently my sister was sick and had canceled, and dad had stepped out to the store. He came home shortly thereafter and we sat around trying to figure out what to do for the day.
After some discussion we decided to go antiquing! Awesome plan. We had just a ridiculous amount of fun. I picked up some new display boxes for my fossils, and we got a better idea of the kinds of things that are out there that would work well for displaying them. We came home and had a cook out, and talked about our vacation plans for the next year. It sounds totally average, but it was really, really spectacular.
As I type this I can hear the fireworks going off, so I'm assuming the cloud cover broke, at least a little bit. So I'm going to go run outside in my bare feet to stare up into the night sky and pretend I'm a kid again. On that note, song of the day, please forgive me for this, is Independence Day by Martina McBride because when I was a little girl this was my best friends favorite song. We listened to it ad nauseum, and to this day I cannot un-associate the holiday with it. *laughs* So play along with me for a minute will you?
Lots of love Dear Friend, Lots of love.
Antiquing sounds amazing. I don't know if we ever told you about this high end consignment store we walked into down the street. We were unfortunately too poor at the time to bother with furniture, but there was this epic red opium bed-chaise lounge for sale with drawers and it was carved out with intricate details. It was pretty much exactly what we were looking for, but it was expensive and too big for the space (and I think they may have sold it when we went in to look again). One day, though, we will have one.
ReplyDeleteOooh, that lounge sounds amazing! There was this spectacular Victorian fainting sofa this weekend that I NEEDED, but alas, I am WAY too poor to even breathe near it. I'll be pining away over it for YEARS, I'm sure. It was tons of fun though. I found this painted blue oak blueprint cabinet circa 1880 that I would have DIED for, but it was also well outside of my price range. At least now though, I know what it is I want and hopefully with a little scrounging will be able to find something similar for much less money. :P
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