He who hath ears to hear...

For all you readers in or affiliated with the United States, happy Independence Day! For the rest of you, happy Thursday!

It's time for the annual reminder to protect your pupper's hearing! There are a lot of dogs (and cats, I understand) that get upset at the noises that go along with the firework celebrations on the Fourth. 

I'm lucky. My last few pets have actually liked fireworks! I had one, D'Artagnan, who tried to fetch the ground flowers — not an activity I would recommend for either dogs or humans!

 

Tie food

Some kids chew on their fingers. Some kids chew on their clothes. I saw a kid the other day happily gnawing on his (or her) dad's clothes! Yeah, it may mess up the tie a bit, but you don't have to worry about crawling under the benches to pick up all the spilled cereal snacks!
 

Good fencers make good neighbors

I'm going to have to look again, but fencing may be part of the updated Preach My Gospel manual. I'm not sure.

An interesting side note: many of the elders in my mission in Korea took taekwondo lessons. Not exactly fencing, but it is a martial art. I wonder what the handbook says about that?

Sketchbook: The True North strong and free

We stand on guard for thee.