Star Spangled Banner unfurled,
ever may it wave.
Wishing you all a happy day. Tonight, I’ll be watching fireworks above Lisle, and singing the Star Spangled Banner (Which yes, is perfectly singable by someone with a ordinary choir level voice. That is, it’s singable if they start it in a reasonable key.)
PS: I’ll posting sea ice bet payouts tomorrow.
PPS: Open thread. 🙂
I like it!
Happy Independence Day Lucia and everyone. 🙂
Andrew
My weekend theme:
Beer and barbeque
They go together just like
Red White and Blue do
TerryMN–
And baseball. The cubs are playing. A duet sang The Star Spangled Banner quite well, and even had proper emphasis on the most important phrase– ” the flag was still there.”
My sister and her husband are visiting Chicago and are at the Cubs game today. My beloved Reds are losing. :/
Andrew
Andrew_KY– That doesn’t mean the Reds will lose. (Though I would prefer that. 🙂 )
Midsummer madness,
Seventeen seventy six:
Hypocrisy enshrined
Happy birthday, the world’s largest unacknowledged empire!
(No, really. Happy birthday. It was the haiku talking, not me.)
Center of equal daughters, equal sons,
All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,
Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
Chair’d in the adamant of Time.
From Joni Mitchell to George III
Don’t it always go
That way, that you don’t know what
You’ve got till it’s gone.
Ideas on parade
From sea to shining Two-C
Stats and a weak grasp
Eleven score and fourteen years ago
They brought forth on this continent
A New Nation, conceived in Liberty
And Dedicated to the Proposition,
That All Men Are Created Equal,
And Endowed by their Creator
With Certain Inalienable Rights
Among these, Life, Liberty, and
The Pursuit of Happiness.
My apologies to Jefferson, Franklin, and Lincoln, for plagiarizing them. But Lincoln knew how to start a retrospective and one can hardly add anything to the words of the Declaration itself.
Reds Win! Reds Win! Reds Win! 😛
Andrew
Well regulated,
but never shall be infringed.
City on a Hill.
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4th of July
Petulant patriotic people play party
Better stay home
Lovely! You have a talent for design I see – a rare attribute for the mathematically gifted. May freedom of speech and having a say in society be never taken away. Happy belated 4th of july!
The only thing missing in the picture is the ice chest. Or has all the ice melted?
Re: P Gosselin (Jul 5 04:43),
We only had 8 people here. We kept things cold in the freezer. When we have an ice chest, it’s outside on the patio.