Would you care for a glass of champagne?

Hi! Hello there. Did you have a happy Fourth? Hopefully yours was decidedly less rainy than ours. It's just as well, I suppose, since Gainesville doesn't actually have a fireworks display. Apparently the city is out of money for fireworks and (woe to many children, I'm sure) the fake ice rink they used to have downtown so that kids could ice skate in 65-degree weather. Don't ask. In any case, we watched "A Capitol Fourth" on PBS Friday night, followed by the Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks special from New York (note to DC: New York does a better show-- lose the jumbotron that blocks the actual fireworks). Saturday morning kicked off our Homesteading Weekend, in which John made bread and yogurt and I made granola and peach cobbler. The high point of the weekend, no doubt, was when John tried to buy mason jars at the grocery store. The cashier knelt down close to the conveyer belt to get a closer look at the jars. As she wondered aloud what was in the jars, she triggered the conveyer belt, sending the box of empty jars crashing into the bridge of her nose. Good times. And how was your weekend?