Starr's Guide to the 24th in Utah

How to properly celebrate July 24th in Utah:

1. Go to a small town. We chose Escalante (no Spanish pronunciation please) to visit Summer and the dogs but most small towns will do.

2. Get lots of candy at the main street parade (be sure to stay long enough to watch the floats make a second pass after their u-turn at the end of town)

3. Throw in a mid-day hike (choose a canyon with water to help abate the heat and be sure to have popsicles waiting in the car at the end of the hike)

4. Heat to the rodeo to cheer on the neighbors. You don't have to enter, but must eat the requisite hot dog and snow cone (Stella chose red).


5. Try your hand at the mechanical bull (we let Summer handle number 5)

6. Go to bed before the fireworks, because they are pretty boring anyway.

A Little Project

You know around the Stratford house you can always count on a project. The latest to grace our busy lives is this:

Stay tuned for updates and more photos as the project continues. We are excited to expand our living quarters and have a toilet with a door that shuts and locks. We will also have a nice guest room, so you will be welcome to stay. And to preemptively answer a few questions for you:
1. Yes, it does look very different than the cabin.
2. No, it will not be sided with logs
3. Yes we did notice the roof is flat, and don't worry, and engineer did approve the plans.
4. Yes, it does more than double the size of our current house.
5. No, we haven't had any neighbors send us hate mail. Yet.

But seriously, stop by any time. We'd love to show you around the place, and get you to hammer in a few nails, run some wire, or hang some windows while you're hanging out anyway.