Part 30

Friday, July 5, 2002: Yay! Except for the incident in Los Angeles, it was a relatively safe and happy Fourth of July yesterday, after all the worries about terrorist attacks. Here at the Mouse House we did our usual, setting off little fireworks you can buy in packages at the grocery store: smoke bombs, "volcanoes", noisemakers of various sorts, "drop pops". We did those in the late morning, before it got overly hot. We watched "A Bug's Life" (which is a good story about learning to gain independence from oppressors!) in the afternoon on a library DVD; then we had a meal of hot dogs, baked beans, etc., with strawberry ice cream for dessert. In the evening we watched the Macy's fireworks display live from New York City on TV; then around 10pm, when it was finally dark enough, we went outside to light our sparklers. There were other fireworks being set off all around the neighbourhood. We could HEAR a lot of them and see a few. Really nice! Anyway, I hope all you U.S. citizens (both at home and abroad) had a happy and enjoyable Independence Day celebration!

There are a few photos from our little 4th of July doings in the Mouse with PalmPix! section, cropped as usual to comply with Mouse House policy (we took other photos, but those are of loved ones, so they are not being displayed online). There would've been more photos, but the PalmPix got all confused and couldn't take any more photos until Cat'r reinstalled its software later in the day, then put new batteries in the camera portion of it. Yay! It's all well and working just fine again.

Saturday, July 6, 2002: Here is a copy of Christopher's Letter Home to the other bears and creators-of-them at The Vermont Teddy Bear Company. Please make sure all your bears read the last part about Bearly Duties. :-)

Sunday, July 28, 2002: I've added the last of the PalmPix photos that I will be putting up--because I got a new camera! A Nikon Coolpix 2500! I will be making a section for the photos I will be taking with it.   Anyway, the new/last sets of PalmPix photos are on the last page of the Mouse with PalmPix! section.

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