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Sonoma Fourth
Fourth of July in Sonoma. I received a warm welcome.
Some family members explored new fashion frontiers.
Others preferred a more traditional form of celebration.
In the evening, some of us watched the fireworks from a field adjacent to a cow pasture. A nearby group of people sang such holiday favorites as the national anthem, God Bless America, one or two Irish folk songs, and Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid. There may have been some wine involved. There was also a dog with a glow-stick collar who barked at the fireworks.
Chillin’ at Ghirardelli
Spaghetti at the Fair
This is the week of the Sonoma County Fair. Anna (youngest cousin) is in the Sonoma FFA and is showing a lamb and some chickens.
After dropping off Clara (French exchange student) at SFO and getting rear-ended on the Golden Gate Bridge, we braved seemingly endless commute traffic to get to the fairgrounds just in time to wait for two hours for Anna’s lamb’s showing. The fair didn’t officially start until the next day and none of the food stalls were open, so we ate the leftover portions of Anna’s lunch and bided our time watching the other sheep and listening to the over-the-top sheep-judging commentary. You would not think there was much you could say about a sheep that is any different than what you could say about any other sheep, but you would be wrong. You can talk about the topline or how well the sheep touches or how athletic the sheep appears to be. There’s a lot of subtlety to sheep that I never fully appreciated.
Anna’s lamb is a 150-pound monster named Spaghetti. He competed in the heaviest weight class with other monster sheep and came in third — just high enough to merit a ribbon.
Beware
Cousins in the Mirror Maze
Ghirardelli Sundae
Before and after.
Sonoma Stompers Game
The Sonoma Stompers failed to stomp the San Rafael Pacifics Sunday night, but we got to eat hot dogs and drink Chardonnay while they failed to do so.
(You can drink beer if you want, but this is Sonoma.)
Parade Panoramae
Waiting for the parade to start.
Rick explores the limits of Time and Space.
Sonoma Independence Day Parade
I’m in Sonoma for the Fourth of July, and that means a parade. And what says “Fourth of July” more than a giant fire-breathing iron horse vehicle?
Except maybe someone dressed like a tube of toothpaste.
There were some other things too, but I didn’t get photos of them.