Happy 4th of July

I'm hoping our neighbors can handle the Nowak family because we do like to celebrate a holiday, any holiday...as in Bastille Day is coming up soon and that's a reason to celebrate and as in, who cares if we celebrate Chanukah and Christmas and Kwanzaa....or that we know that Gung Hay Fat Choy is the greeting for Chinese New Year..we like holidays and we like to have a good shindig to eat great food and get together with friends and family.

 No friends or family available this year but we did get up bright and early to put out our plethora of american flags all around our front yard.  Look closely and you will see them lining our really bad "landscaping" in the front.  

Today we spent here at the house, unpacking more boxes and doing some fairly productive projects.  We assembled the new BBQ and the lawnmower, installed a ceiling fan in Miles' room, repaired some scratched furniture, and managed to eat a really yummy steak dinner. We got to eat off these new plates that we received as a housewarming gift.  They are so appropriate since we are in beef country. 

And speaking of beef, where would you buy said steaks for your BBQ?  Think hard....of course, you would buy them at the local Shell...yes, as in gas station.  Evidently, THE place to buy steak here is the local butcher shop located in the gas station.  So bizarre I hardly believed Charlie when he told me about it but, ahh yes, Miles, as my witness, confirmed.  My husband got this info on a hot tip from a local.  Frightening!!!!!!!!!  But I have to say, the steaks were really yummy.  I'm just hoping I'm not a victim of eColi poisoning or mad cow!

As you can see they were lovely little morsels after they came off the new BBQ.  

We then proceeded into town for fireworks, which were very nice, and then back home for sparklers and those little snap on the ground thingies. I'm sure our neighbors are truly loving us! It was a very nice day and we are feeling like this Texas thing is really working out for us.

Ahh yes, and one last oddity of the day....we brought our studded tires from Alaska because we were unable to sell them up there where they would have been useful and it was a great deal. So on a lark, and an attempt to free up some space, Charlie posted them on Craig's List here and within 7 hours he sold them????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????  It is beyond me how that was possible.  Seriously....someone bought them.  That's why I call him lucky Chuck...things really seem to go his way!!

Hope you all had a fantastic 4th of July too!