July 4, 2009

Happy Fourth of July

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Wave your little flags, watch the sky for fantastic colors, and eat yourself silly among friends and family!

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
~Erma Bombeck

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