Blue, Pink, and Lemon

Cody says Happy 4th of July!  He doesn't know much about independence, but he does know that he got lots of treats for letting us torture him with blue and red food coloring!

Yesterday was an excellent day.  I spent half of the day at work, but when I got off around 1, I found a hilarious scene in my back yard: Jason and 2 of his friends playing-with/fixing my scooter!  Once they finally got it running (YAY) they took to the streets and were gleefully zipping around the neighborhood.  Imagine it: 3 military guys taking turns on a bright pink scooter.  Was so sad I didn't have my phone to take pictures, but here is the finished result:

Later a bunch of us went to a cook out where we brought out our instruments and played some awesome music and laughed a lot.  A few years ago, a friend and I gathered as many (amatuer) musicians together and called it Kitchen Band.  Yesterday, it had grown to 18 people, and sounded better than ever.  We had 2 fiddles, 3 mandolins, a banjo, an army of guitars, a few bases, and a drum.   It was excellent fun.

For the pot luck, one of the things we brought were these amazing lemonades by Five Sixteenths.  You should check out her blog post about these easy summertime drinks- They're awesome!  I couldn't get enough of the grapefruit lemonade with an extra splash of white zinfandel.  It was excellently refreshing on such a hot day!

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Overall, it was an excellent day.  What did you do for the fourth?

Song of the Hour: Dancing In the Street by Mick Jagger and David Bowie.  This music video cracks me up every time.  I love it.

4th of July on the 3rd?

Maybe it's because I've always worked jobs that worked on the 4th of July, but it seems that the Independence Day festivities are really kicking it off strong this year.  Tonight we went to our local theme park to watch the fireworks.  And as promised, they were excellent.

Here are a few snapshots I got on my phone.  Of course, it is a phone camera.  And it was night.  But I did get a kinda cool ollogram!  What's an ollogram?  It all started with the Olloclip for the iPhone.  It's a zoom lens and a wide angle lens that attaches to your phone camera.  I happen to be a fan of the Droid products, so I did a little research and found a lens that works for me.  Anyway, an ollogram is an image taken by holding the lens away from the camera and focusing on the subject.  It's a little something like this:

Of course the darkess didn't help my focus, but hey, fireworks are always great!!

Where will you be this 4th of July?

Song of the hour: Some Nights by Fun.  I'm obsessed with this whole album!  Good stuff.