It’s a little after 10:00 PM and all is quiet.

The 70° night is providing a super nice breeze. For a while it felt like rain might be moving in but radar doesn’t say so.

The Quartet scurried inside the house after several very loud booms – fireworks. They’ve since cautiously meandered back to the deck but are gathered close to me.

Tomorrow, is my Friday with Thursday and Friday as my extra Saturdays before Saturday. I would love to venture to Carillon Park since it opened, yesterday, but I’m just so hesitant.

There’s little else to add so it’s time to read for a bit.

“We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.” 

— Erma Bombeck, “Family- The Ties that Bind…And Gag!”