July 3rd in Morse

I couldn’t help but pull this video out of the archives. Bailey and Mia with their friend Maggie (and Maggie’s dad) preparing for the Independence Day Parade in Morse two years ago.

The little town of Morse celebrates Independence Day on the 3rd of July with a parade, good food and an amazing fireworks display. A few thousand people come from all around for fun on this night — fun that lasts until the wee morning hours for a few hundred or so. The year we lived there, we had friends join us in our yard for an evening of fun. Here’s Mia with her friend Logan, patiently waiting for the fireworks to begin.

And after the fireworks were over we all went inside except for my son Joe who cleaned up around the campfire. When Joe came to the house with his hands full of stuff, he looked a little startled and said he thought there was a cow in the front yard … near the bottom of the hill in the dark. We grabbed a flashlight and followed Joe, and soon came to find out there was a couple ‘doing it’ in our front yard. The guy said, “Hey, do you mind,” as we held the flashlight on them. My friend Bill said, “No, we don’t mind,” and his wife exclaimed, “We thought you were a cow!” And my son Joe said, “Gross, they’re doing it,” and ran off.

I ran off to invite neighbors over for the show.