Missed the Fireworks? Watch here!

We hope everyone had a great, safe Fourth of July.  Things are winding down now, Sunday, and just in case some of you missed the big fireworks display over Joe's Pond Friday night, Andy Rudin made a video of it and it's posted on YouTube.  Here's a link:  Joe's Pond Fireworks, 2015.

Enjoy, and thank you, Andy!

We went to Newport on Saturday evening and enjoyed hearing the "Hitmen" at the celebration in the park.  There was a huge crowd there, and even though it began to rain at about 8 o'clock, everyone stayed, crowded under some big canopy tents - and lots of kids just danced in the rain to the music.  Kids know how to enjoy life, no matter what the weather.  I have a few photos for you - here.  We didn't make a video, but you can hear some of the band here that someone else made last night and posted.  Fred and I were sitting in front, far right, at the very last as the camera panned around.  We had no idea we were being videoed, otherwise we would have waved! We had great fun, in spite of getting pretty wet on our backsides (we were standing at the very outside of the tens and the eaves dripped on us), and there wasn't room for our canvas chairs inside, so they got pretty wet and without thinking, we sat in them again after the rain stopped.  This was one more time when it was really nice to have heated seats in the car!  We decided against having fair food and went to a Wendy's that was close by for a salad and hot cup of coffee before heading home.

On our way home, when we were coming close to Barton, we began to see fireworks high in the sky over the interstate.  They were probably being set off from the fairgrounds. We stopped, along with cars in both directions, to watch.  They seemed to be directly overhead - like being in a boat on Joe's Pond, only a lot warmer!

Now the fireworks are over and the celebrating is finished, we will all get back to business as usual tomorrow.  Don't forget there may be an unusual amount of traffic on West Shore Road due to the Route 15 bridge in Walden being closed, so those of you who live on this side of the pond take extra care to keep children and pets out of harm's way.