Family Phil's caption for this: "I'll help you down, Daddy. Don't be scared."

*Nic/Rants, Raves and Random Thoughts had the unhappy duty today of trying to explain to his 2-year-old that the family dog, Chara, died here.

*Mari/Dogwalk Musings is concerned that Al Gore is a man with a Messianic vision for the world and one who's playing a cat-and-mouse game re: the presidency here.

*Frum Helen Back/Hauser Thoughts experienced her first bad Fourth of July celebration in 30-plus years at Hauser when a bunch of drunken yahoos with illegal fireworks started punching each other. Read July 5 entry first here.

*Mrs. Mac Energetic/Whatever Happened To ... sez its time to pick up her father's tradition of meticulously documenting important events in the year on a wall calendar here.

*MamaJD is trying to nurse "Sickly Pete" back to life after the sparrow survived what she calls the carnage of "Li'l Beirut" on the Fourth of July here.

*Marianne/Slight Detour posts memories of another Fourth of July in Sandpoint, including the one of being bumped twice in line while waiting to use the porta-potty here.

Meanwhile, Tumblewords pens a "Change of Pace" here, A Butterfly Moment sez every day has something to do with Jesus here, Al Turtle provides relationship tips here, Freedom of Expression had a blast camping here, Cis has no excuses for not getting things done now here, Live Love Laugh Hope eyes the beauty of garden flowers here, Silver Valley Girl celebrates a birthday and opens the Sixth Street Melodrama here, the Radon sage ends for Shinie here,

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