July 4 - Fireworks


Ah, a day off, and what a day -- Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, , etc., ringing in the ears -- now an entire week stretch of plus-100 weather (a new second-highest at 108, only June 8 at 109 higher... 104th day of summer, 29th 90-or-above, 9th 100-or-more):
 

a number of


impressive,


thought-provoking


videos with


Harriet,


Carol checking in with pictures from her Northwest adventure, + finishing up a re-reading of Richard Brautigan's


Willard and his Bowling Trophies and the composition re fourth scene of Hamlet (46 pages total), and


early dinner at Joe's Creekside Cafe,


then


down to


Vallejo,


accompanying


Tisha, Clair, Tom, and


Amanda toward the waterfront for


good old-fashioned communal

 pyrotechnics.