We had a very busy 4th of July weekend! I took off the 3rd and went and performed with Craig Mortensen at the noon summer concert series at the Logan tabernacle. We had a decent crowd and the sound system worked exceptionally well. It was one of our best performances ever and we had a lot of fun. The generally over-fifty audience seemed to dig the tunes too. Here's a shot of us before launching into "Yesterday," where I do the guitar work and Craig takes the lead vocal -- (P.S. for any Saugus readers, the fellow clapping on the right in the foreground is Denny Clark. He and Claudia attended. They moved to Cache Valley from Anchorage, Alaska, where they lived after Santa Clarita.)



Afterwards, Gayle and I posed with mom and dad for a photo inside the tabernacle.

Gayle and I stopped by for a Jamba Juice on the way home!


The next day, Gayle and I spent most of the day doing yard work and completely wore ourselves out. We did make it to the annual 4th of July ward breakfast in the park that morning, and even had our friends from Mexico City, Hector and Margarita Mendiola, accompany us. Saturday Jared and I went to Birch Creek golf course in Smithfield. We had so much fun when he took me to Preston golfing the day before Father's Day, that we decided to do it more often. This time we played a whole 18 holes. Although we don't do great, we each had some good holes. Later in the day I went with Jared to visit some hispanic friends he knows from work who threw a birthday party for their 5 yr. old daughter and used it as an occasion to have several friends over. There were folks from Cuernavaca, El Salvador, and Guatemala. Jared surprised me by how much Spanish he's picked up just being around these folks. Here is Jared with Carlos and Hortencia, the couple who threw the pachanga (Mexicanism for fiesta) --


And here's an evening shot of part of the berm in our front yard, where the plants actually have grown so well we had to thin things out and transplant several to our back hill, which we're gradually bringing up to snuff --

That evening (the 5th) Gayle and I rode our bikes down to main street to check out the annual Cruise-In. This has become a major event. The streets are lined for probably a couple of miles from the fairgrounds out to the north end of town for the parade of antique, tricked out, and unique vehicles of all types and ages. The parade is the culminating event of a bunch of car club activities. Folks and cars come from all over (and I mean way out of state) to participate. Styx, a big act from the 70's, even performed this year. We just went down for the parade. Here is a glimpse at merely the fringe of the crowd on the edge of the tabernacle lawn, awaiting the beginning of the parade:
And here's a clip of a tiny piece of the action --