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To all my American Friends,  I hope your Fourth of July is a blast!

We’re off bright and early for the parade and a most delicious breakfast.  It’s the perfect way to start the day.  I shared this quote before, but I can’t help myself.  I have to share it again:

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

-Erma Bombeck

I’m sure I’ll be VERY patriotic today.