Hope everyone had a good holiday. We did. We kept things pretty low key. Ran errands. Cleaned house some. Did some pond & yard work. Saturday, however, we did do some celebratory things. We rode our bikes to the square to watch the parade. It's a small-town parade with little Miss Marietta, little Toddler Miss Marietta, etc. There are "twilight twirlers" - a baton twirling club for women in their "twilight." Imagine sparkly short dresses and lots of lycra tights. 
There are a lot of politicians at the parade too. The float that Mercer is pointing out is the Marietta landmark - the big chicken. Next year, the woman who runs Keep Marietta Beautiful says that she's putting Mercer on that float. He's so squirmy now... I wonder if he'll sit still long enough for that? (The past two years, Mercer and I have visited the crew building the floats - for moral support, of course.... the little guy can't really help with the staple-gun just yet.) The parade is a little hokey, but fun. Mercer seemed to enjoy himself.We ran into some neighbors and picnic-ed on their blanket for lunch. Mercer took a good long nap when we got home. That evening, we walked to a friend's house for a bbq, then onto the square again for the fireworks show. We avoided the crowds at the square by hanging out in the courtyard of a building about a block away because it had a wrought-iron fence around it. Mercer could run around. He found a 2 year old girl to play peek-a-boo with. He seemed to have liked the fireworks (said "ooohh" a few times and pointed, but for the most part, was pretty laid back about the show). On our walk back home, we ran into more neighbors who were conducting a fireworks show of their own. I actually got tagged by one firework and it burned a small hole in the shirt I was wearing. It was probably the most "exciting" thing that happened all weekend. Unfortunately, all 3 of us have been fighting colds most of the week. I'm hoping for a healthy weekend ahead! Hope it's good for everyone else too.
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