Day 9: July 5, 2015

We all survived the Fourth of July party on the patio at the back of the house; it went quite late. Arianna and Olivia went to bed immediately. I soon followed. May was up until 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. watching something on television; perhaps more fireworks, though our fireworks in the neighborhood continued well into the night.

This morning we are all up though Arianna is a bit tired and has a minor sore throat. I took a good look at her throat and it looks fine: no inflammation whatsoever, possibly a slight bit of irritation on the left tonsil, which I think is the side she said it hurts. She had breakfast, and is now having "warm/hot" tea and is in very good spirits.

May sent me this note, after overhearing them in the TV room:

Olivia saying to Arianna, as they negotiate the trading of rocks they bought at the Grand Canyon, "I want to put this out there, but you're not going to get much for your pyrite shards.  They're just shards;  I don't know why you got them; they're not worth much."

I don't know about that. Arianna might make a tidy profit for her fool's gold if she finds some fools on the beach. Shouldn't be too difficult.