Happy 4th of July....

Happy Fourth of July to all of our U.S. customers and a belated Canada Day to our Canadian friends! Hope your week is going well, either way! We got to go to the 4th of July parade in Bothell today. Our grandson, Lukas, has been named Police Chief of the Day in Bothell. The big "event" actually takes place in August, when he'll be sworn in by either the governor or her emissary. But yesterday, our daughter, Lydia and his brother Benson got to accompany Lukas for a tour of the facilities and a party where he got his "uniform" tailored down for a 6 year old and his hat, badge and other "goodies", including a cake for Chief Lukas! (If you go here http://www.ci.bothell.wa.us/dept/cm/PIO/bylines/2008/JulyAug08/

and read Page 1 and Page 3, you'll know more about it, although a few of the details aren't quite right.) Anyway, these are a couple of pictures from our day! Lydia, Lukas and Benson (Luke's 5 year old brother) got to ride in the car toward the beginning of the parade. Lydia said he was waving, blowing kisses and thanking people for coming! Our son, Dave and his wife, Nikki were there too, so we had a good time - with ice cream afterwards!

When I got home, I finished the overdue July newsletter, so John is putting it up on the web as I type this. That tells about most of the newest "stuff". I left a bit of a mess at Fab-Etc when I left on Thursday, so tomorrow, I need to clean up! I told the UPS driver he couldn't come any more this week, but he did it anyway! A couple of customers came in and figured out a cool batik flying geese quilt on the design wall on Thursday - it will be gorgeous!

Well, folks are jockeying for position by our house on Eldridge...we're not on the bay side, and there's a tree that obscures most of the fireworks, but it's always fun to get a cold drink and watch the festivities from the front porch! Hope you have/had a safe and enjoyable day! More fabric news soon!