Happy 4th of July

Just got back from a week in New York in time to celebrate the 4^th West Texas style.  That includes a local rodeo, the Cowboy Reunion in Stamford, Texas, (http://tcrrodeo.com/) and a local amateur fireworks display in Noodle, Texas.  The rodeo was fun – a trick rider, who was good, and amateur cowboys who tried hard.  The Cowboy Reunion website has some great photographs.  As to the fireworks, they were pretty spectacular for an amateur event. They do this every year and usually set fire to something. Always exciting.  This year they had the Merkel Fire Department truck ready and they managed not to shoot anything sideways so no fires.  That’s good because it is so dry here that a fire could easily get out of control.  Now in the county they had over 30 grass fires on the 4^th from people setting fireworks.  It is wonder that we have survived as a species.

If you celebrate the 4^th of July, I hope you had a good one.  For me it’s back to archiving and scrapbooks.  More next week......