First Independance Day in Kentucky - Wet One

Independance Day is HUGE in Prospect and in Kentucky in general. Did I mention that Kentucky is seen as the fifteenth state and joined the union in 1792 during George Washington's first presidency?

The day started (at 5:00 PM) with a parade down Westover Drive which is the main thoroughfare through the Hunting Creek part of Prospect and about fifty yards from our front door - a good thing.


It rained all day but many - mostly the children - refused to have their spirits broken. so the parade proceeded swimingly (sort of).


A real Kentucky thing is the lawn mowers. we really like it but there seems to be something in the air or water that causes men and women throughout Kentucky to want to mow in relatively open green area and turn it into lawn. The shoulders of many of the highways are mowed for miles. Anyway, here is another use for one of the mid-sized home mowers here in Prospect... pull a float with it in the parade.


These kast two pictures are of two little girls who were actually driving their battery powered toy car. The guy holding the umbrella we guessed was their dad.

We knew that there was supposed to be a fireworks show somewhere over the Hunting Creek CC Golf course and that it might be visible from our back porch, but little did we know that it would be so close and so viewable. These last four pictures were taken from the top of the stairs going up to our screened-in porch. You can see the corner of our roof in some of them.

The pictures are very poor because either the camera or the photographer were not able to take them properly. But it was a top drawer fireworks show and we viewed it while seated comfortably on our back porch. Some friends from our ward stopped by. Cathy made root beer floats and a grand time was had by all. It even stopped raining! Happy birthday America.