The 4th of July weekend

I’ll start by mentioning the winner of the Para’Kito contest was Karen Hicks, I’ll be contacting you later about it.

I’d planned to have a fairly long and elaborate well documented prize selection methodology, but I just put everyone’s name in a randomizing Excel spreadsheet due to time limitations.

I’ve been dealing with check fraud and most of my time today has been running police reports to the bank, contacting companies I deal with that auto bill, etc.

I’ll be dealing with it another couple of days I’m sure and then will have a few neat things up.

I learned that Maggie is fine with fireworks, as long as she can stay away from the really loud ones. I think she enjoys those, but I have a feeling she was getting overwhelmed by them as she’d be looking and oohing and ahhing but will start to get trembly.

We had a couple of hugs and making things a bit more quiet, but she seemed to really be all about small scale incendiary and dog snake fireworks. I think morter level booms just rattle the nerves of a little one.

She had a pretty good weekend overall.