High Noon

You wake up one morning and it's July 5.  It happens every year.  June just FLIES by and I've accomplished NOTHING except perfecting the putzin' around.
This weekend brought many good things:

1.  Cassidy annual firework extravaganza ~ the blue haze of sparklers as a background for Jake's salute to Independence ~ the little kids all watching from the pool ~ the adults happy in the chairs.  My only suggestion is for Jake to set it all to music.

2.  The best overheard, out-of-context line of the night:  Mother talking to her young daughter who got out of the pool to participate with the sparklers, "Granny says you have to wear panties.  Get over her so I can put on your panties."  I think that's pretty good advice Granny ~ if only Brittany Spears were your granddaughter.

3.  We discovered our act for Butler-Barton Family Entertainment Night ~ it's only July and we've got December covered.  So unlike us.  If you're a Butler don't click on the link ~  Anyone else, this is a Phil Cassidy Internet Radio GEM!

4.  The jet ski works.  The jet ski works.  The jet ski works.  It especially works when Jacob is driving and Patrick, riding on the back, pegs it full go and doesn't realize it's HIM holding down the gas.  I thought they were going to DIE and it most certainly was a CRISIS and I reacted as such.  Might just be the BEST thing that could have happened to Jacob.  He was the most cautious young driver of a jet ski that I have ever ridden with.  I actually had to tell him to give it more gas.  (reference the memory of riding with Patrick:  "Slow Down!  You're Going Too Fast!"  etc.)

5.  Found out that when we were kids Barb Hogan and I both saw King Tut at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.  We both remembered the really REALLY long line to get in...we imagine we were there on the same day (even tho' the exhibit had to be there a month or so).

6.  Walking into Wal-Mart this evening I realized my legs were EQUALLY tired and sore from my bike ride today.  I must repeat EQUALLY.  Yep, the stupid IT band is getting better.  (I've been praying for my leg, so thank you God.)