This year we spent Independence Day with our great friends Tristan & Leslie Block and Leslie’s family in Windom, Kansas. They live on a farm and opened up their implement shed for a huge pot luck meal for family, friends, and neighbors: hamburgers made from the beef of one of their own cows, deviled eggs, cakes, cookies, and several homemade ice creams. What a feast!
After dinner there were games of ladder ball and volleyball, and then singing! A group congregated around the gentleman in the cowboy hat, pictured below. He is a fantastic cowboy singer, and taught/sang us the history behind our state song Home on the Range. There were a few sing along songs, too.
The fireworks show happened in between rain showers, but didn’t last too long! When we first arrived the all-day downpour had finally let up, but only to start again right as fireworks began. Everyone relocated into the shed for cover from the rain to watch a few more fireworks before the wicks were put out by the rain.
It was a great evening–thank you Tristan and Leslie for inviting us!
