4th of July in Westwood

From day one of this blog, I have challenged myself with taking a photo (or more) a day to post here. It has been a goal of mine to never cheat , even a little, by posting a picture that I took that was not actually taken on the day of the date of the post.
The evening of June 28th, my last post I started getting sick, by June 30th in the midle of the night I was hospitilized. I am fine now, just a little weak, however now my blog has no pictures in it from June 29th until today July 4th. This is because I WAS NOT out taking pictures. I was released from the hospital on July 2nd and today on the 4ht of July is the first time I have been out!
In our little town every year they have an all day Blues Festival event on the 4th. Today My husband Dave and I ventured out to Westwood Park and watched several live Blues bands. The weather was great and I got to see a lot of folks I don't seem to run into other times of the year.
So we grabbed a picnic table and sat and watched and listened to the"Blues" allll day long. It was real nice.

 

My son Hunters very best friend Jay became a father to this adorable daughter of his whom they named Jaylynn

 

Louise is a dear friend of mine and also the grandmother to Jaylynn

 

Jaylynn in the stroller and the proud parents

  

Another very old friend of mine Jim with Louise

 

Jim again

 

Another great surprise, I ran into a friend Randy. He had moved a couple years ago and I thought I would never see him again. I am so glad to here they have moved back to Lassen County

 

Randy with oldest daughter Amy

 

Amy & Randy

 

One of the 1st bands. The local kids are dancing up a storm

 

Ruth an old coworker of my husbands and a friend of ours

 

My hubby Dave with Ruth

 

And again. It was nice seeing her, it's been awhile!

 

One of the many food booths. This one offered Elk, Ostrich, and Buffalo burgers, along with a whole bunch of other yummy stuff!

 

Myself with "The Man" or should I say "The Bear" It was nice seeing old smokey again!

 

Friend Jim and son Nate!

 

They also have snowmobile grass drags 

 

  

Here are 2 riders racing for the finish line. The winner? A woman. (I just had to add that! LOL!!!)

 

Ran into my son Travis

 

Another one of the "Blue's Band's"

 

Gal on the left is a longtime friend of mine Kay

 

Kay's new grandbaby.

 

Again

 

Kay and I walked over to where you by beers. I grabbed a shot of these guys whom I did not know but who new Kay

 

After taking the picture above this one, this guy was standing there and said, I am Tom, take a picture of me for your blog, he also mentioned he was from ForestRanch which is over 100 miles away, so I took his picture.

As Kay and I were walking away I asked her "Kay, that guy said he was Tom from Forest Ranch, is that correct? 

Kay looked at me and said, Hell I don't know who that guy was!

I thought that was a little comical.

 

Some more dancers. We (Dave and I) called it a day. I was getting rather tired feeling.

It was a very nice day in lil' ol' Westwood!

The town of Westwood does not have fireworks here afer. To see fireworks, you need to go to our local lake, Lake Almanor.