In honor of the holiday, Dick put Bessie the mannequin on the swing on the riverside deck. We did observe her being noticed, but we didn't see anybody tip over. Most canoers and kayakers are concentrating so hard on making it around the bend that they don't really notice our house or our deck. It was fun though, and Dick said that he plans to put her out on weekends. When she's not on the swing, she lives in Dylan's playroom.
Dick power-washed half of the deck. I made potato salad. We did the Subaru Cruise downtown and watched the billions (millions?) of people who were enjoying the day.
It was amazing to see how many boats were rafting by the beach volleyball courts. We have never seen that many - our estimate was 50-60 boats. The beach was literally teeming with people. The shocking part was that in the new open space created by the removal of the power plant, there were hundreds (dozens?) of cars parked. I'm sure that the PTB never intended that space to be a parking lot.
We visited Mother and took her some potato salad. She's just not really interested in food anymore. Or much of anything.
We went to Memorial Gardens to see the family plots. The flowers this year are red, white and blue - very nice.
We had a picnic - burgers on the grill, potato salad and chips. But we ate indoors because of the heat! (93 degrees)
