Happy Post 4th!

I hope y'all had a good day yesterday. Bruce and I spent the day over my parents after picking up Aunt E. (father's friend), and another family friend on the way home from church. It started raining while we were in DC and never stopped raining the whole day that we were in Lanham at my parents' home. I was gobsmacked at the amount of the rainfall - I had been so looking forward to walking around a bit in the backyard to look at the flowers and other plants. There was even a period when the sun was out and it was pouring and father made a comment about that folk saying. :-\

Fortunately, it had stopped by the time we went home and we were able to catch the fireworks going off across the street. It seemed to us that they'd started early, or maybe I got the time wrong. Oh, well. I'm sure it will be better next year.

I've been having so much fun playing around with my new PowerBook. It's really sweet - I went with the 15", superdrive version. I decided if I was going to spend a bundle of money, I might as well go for the better of the two 15" models. I'm even looking forward to fooling around with the iMovie. My parents have a bunch of old home movies in which I'm the star and the plan is to eventually get these transferred to DVDs. I *might* post a clip or two up on my website. I certainly don't want to just put it all up, knowing how things can quickly get out of control. There will be heavy censorship, deliberately keeping any of the scenes where I'm caught stealing or posing buck naked as a defiant 5 year old off the Net.

Bruce is off to work today (he's finally landed a temp-to-perm position), so I'll be heading over to Yarns International later today to look around, especially since they've gotten a whole bunch of books in and they're having a sale.

Now, I must get back to work writing up that blog about the garden that I've been meaning to do so and putting it off.