MoonDog's Place: Celebrating the Fourth of July Weekend

We spent this Fourth of July quietly at home this year avoiding crowded spaces. We Celebrated by contacting friends and relatives with FaceTime or Skype. It was nice to see the Hollyhock Parade in Ottawa Hills, an 80 year old tradition in photos and video. A thank you to our son-in-law for making the photos attached possible. Our granddaughter Ruby and her friends reenacted the Spirit of "76. What was great is that all wore masks and socially distanced to make this possible. There was no bike parade section or band this year but plenty of encouraged family floats and a few large exhibits from the City of Grand Rapids. You can check it out on M-Live. https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2020/07/grand-rapids-neighborhood-celebrates-july-4th-with-annual-hollyhock-lane-parade.html

The girls portray the SPIRIT OF '76

Leading the Parade

Our remarkable grand daughter.

We enjoyed our evening by watching "Hamilton" We enjoyed this as much as had when we saw the performance at the DeVos before the quarantine began. That was fun with the fam damnily of Fritz's.

This time it was just a quiet but very enjoyable private viewing. A shout out to other son-in-law for the Disney+ gift.

If you haven't seen it and get the opportunity to do so - DON'T MISS!

Sitting out in the garden and watching birds, critters and clouds pass by is always a great enjoyment for us. Some of our garden flowers provided the fireworks displays we missed this year.

On my creative side I managed to complete the drawing on the YMCA. This makes a total of seven historical buildings in the series. Next on the list is the Hackley Public Library / a real challenge this time.