4th of July Rainbow

For the second year in a row, the weather was gloomy with periods of rain, so everyone was stuck inside. We passed the time talking about books, music and politics (it's a good thing everyone there were Democrats..lol). On the menu, was traditional 4th of July fare; Grilled Hamburgers and Hot Dogs, potato salad, homemade baked beans (from a recipe I got from the Des Moines Register a couple of weeks ago (recipe to follow), sliced pickled cucumbers and for dessert, the choice of frosted brownies, 4th of July decorated sugar cookies, ice cream in waffle cones or watermelon.

After dinner, Paul, my sister and my nephew and I went on a walk. We were all stuffed and needed to walk some of our dinner off. Even though it was still drizzling a bit, we all decided to tough it out and do 30 minutes. Felt good to move around.

A bit later after our friend Paul left, he called back to our house and said "Look out at the sky from your deck, there's a huge rainbow".....and this is what greeted us -









It was too wet to do sparklers, so we had to settle for the rainbow instead, maybe we'll do sparklers some future weekend.