I’m enjoying my summer with nothing to do oh so much. It’s hot enough to go swimming and I’ve read several novels and my to-do list is paltry and my skin is brown. I’m working every morning toward my goal of running a sub-30-minute 5k. Most mornings it’s already hot by the time I get out there from sleeping in, except two days ago when it was pouring rain; my shoes still haven’t dried out completely. My 5k time now is around 33 or 34 minutes and I hope to break 30 by August.
Jed and Maddie came over for FFN last week and we had a fire and watched Hoppers outside.
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| engineering minds making a fire |
And on Saturday was our town’s Fourth of July fireworks show (we get the early bird discount special). Jason and I walked over to the elementary school hill and settled into chairs, and then Liz and Caleb walked over, avoided eye contact with us, and found a spot suitably far away to put down a picnic blanket. Half the town was there, adults chit-chatting on lawn chairs and the beds of pickup trucks, children running up and down the hill, playing with footballs, until the fireworks started and we all ooooed and aaahed in unison. It was straight from a Charles Wysocki painting—an example, as Jason said, of the best side of humanity.
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