Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 04, 2015

Neal’s been in the closet for some time now.

SusanI LOVE my nails! You did a fantastic job!How much you wanna bet Bev will be jealous?

Having spent all her fireworks at breakfast, Marcia will be retiring early tonight. “Thank goodness” thinks Derwood, “Now I can sneak down to the Tiki for the party”

Mrs. Higglepooder has been busy lately. She hopes to be finished in time to wave it at the parade. Looks kind of heavy, I hope there isn’t a stiff wind.

She could end up in Crustwood.

See you at the party!

When Amanda told me that Neal always seemed to feel grounded,

I did not think this is what she meant.

No wonder she seemed startled by my enthusiastic “That’s great!”

Glad you like your nails, 2Old!

And Bev…. I… I… don’t know what to say.

You seemed so happy after I spent so much time on your re-do, after you didn’t think they were glittery enough…

I know the XTI MagiGlow™ formula is only a soft glitter….but I thought it went well with your crystal ball.

It wasn’t cos I was “out of glitter!”

But now that I’ve added a coat of XTI TruGlitterIII™ you truly shine!Are you sure you want me to remove all that work just for a holiday set?

BTW, 2Old… it’s up to you, of course…but you know, I’m usually quite happy to take the pictures of my work, so you don’t have to.

After all, I bought that huge XTI Turbo2700 SpecialFX model just for the salon…and it’s hard for your camera to capture the glitter quite as well.

Meanwhile…to everybody….

(with a note to our international friends:

I know you probably don’t celebrate our American Independence Day…but gosh…unless your calendar is defective, you do have a 4th of July!Enjoy it!)

That reminds me… LadyKat, hope you enjoyed the beer.What did you think?

Sorry I couldn’t stick around and chat…. but as usual, you arrived at just about the very limit of how long I can stay up.

Happy Holiday, y’all.

See you all at Red’s, and at Ling’s barbecue…and at the Tiki…

Wow… gonna be quite a day!Wish you could join us, Monkey!G’night all….

Happy 4th of July to you in the U.S.A.!

Edit:> “Good morning People of Ballard Street or as i often say to my friends;> BS’rs. Have a great day everyone.Happy July 4th. to all here in the States. :) Peace.” Punctuation :(

Neal it is 2015 come on out of that closet for good. Even the Supreme Court says you measure up equally. Now you just have to tell the wife.

Happy 4th everyone. I’m keeping my doggy friend close and drugged tonight (poor guy).

I was looking through yesterday’s comments and all of Mist’s comments are gone. Anybody know why they pulled Mist’s comments. I haven’t seen Mist commenting anywhere today either.

Thanks,Red. I’m checking in here, then to Ling’s;the Tiki for a ‘Hello’. Have a great day,all. Peace. :)

I’m getting dressed to go to the party, but I had to stop and thank Bev for the Commercial Redux. I loved looking at what we Used to eat. It’s a wonder we’re still alive, I fried everything in Crisco (even popcorn!) and ate a lifetime’s worth of salt in all those canned veggies! Used to make a veggie salad entirely out of cans! Yikes!Oh, and I loved tne “Bollywood” finish! Great job finding that one!Sorry Susan I just couldn’t wait to show off my nails to “you know who”!

TO YOU, DADDY! He loved his beer until he had some surgery done when he was about 72 years old, lost the taste for it after that, and only drank green tea and water since then. THE TIKI BAR seemed to be the PERFECT place to raise a toast to him! For the understanding behind this, see my post at Ten Cats or Citizen Dog.

Im sorry i have/am going to miss the party.Its been a long couple of days.Im going to bed with my girl, and going to sleep as soon as the illegal fireworks (burn ban because of the drought) stop going off.Up at 4:30am.

Fenton?

You doing OK?So good of you to stay here during the fireworks… I know it’s hard onyour ears.

The chandelier? They did? Little monkeys, come on down from there..it’s OK…. no more booms.It was fun at Red’s, and out on the beach at Ling’s party….but you all were probably better off at the Tiki… and it looks like we did have a crowd.

But now we gotta get this place cleaned up a little….

My friend’s dog heard all the fireworks, got excited and ran around the yard looking for all the ducks that he thought had been shot down.

Good sundae morning everyone. I hope noone got a owch’ie on the 4th. Nice day to wind down,tomorrow it’ is back to Mondae ‘start of the week’. Peace. :)

I could totally have gone through life without ever seeing that photo.

Im reminded of an old TUBES tune.I won’t put up a link to it…

Happy Day after the Fourth (4th) of July!!@ SusanWe do indeed have a Fourth. We have a First too! We call it Canada Day.Your day is bright and shiny, I must say! ;-)

@ 2 oldThat was an awful cheeky photo!It rained on our Pride Parade. Poured, actually. I had to walk through it twice, as the streetcar wasn’t going to go through. Ours wasn’t too cheeky this year due to the down-pour. Thank heavens for small mercies, lol

Hey Bev! See? I do come out at night sometimes. Just not as often now.Good Night all!