Today is America’s birthday and we’ll be celebrating in a traditional way. The kids are coming over around 3:00 and we’ll go have a nice picnic at the lake. The kids can swim and fish and then we’ll eat around 6:00. That will give us enough time to go home to change clothes and then drive downtown for the parade down Broadway and fireworks at 9:15 when it gets good and dark. As long as the weatherman holds up his end of the deal and keeps the rain away, we’ll have a lot of fun today.