Originally published on July 3, 2009.
Fireworks are really hard to draw. Tried to make the chalkboard all festive with a few fireworks and they turned out looking like spiders….to the point where I felt compelled to note that they’re not spiders. Otherwise I’m sure we would have had more than one person come in and ask what spiders have to do with the 4th of July.
Not a big surprise, but everyone wants something inexpensive, white or rose. Or sparkling. To go with their 4th of July sparklers, perhaps?
More of a surprise…garbage services don’t pick up the night before the 4th of July. Apparently it’s a garbage holiday. They don’t tell you this, but it’s rather obvious when you come in the next day and all your carefully broken down boxes are still sitting there on the curb, still carefully broken down and waiting to come back inside.
There are a lot of tourists in town. This is good. We like tourists because they all seem to like wine!