Strawberry Daiquiri
5 large, fresh or frozen whole strawberries
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 teaspoon sugar
2 ounces of rum
½ ounce triple sec
1 cup crushed ice
Blend 10-20 seconds and serve in a chilled cocktail glass.

Charles and Camilla are not sure about the Fourth of July. Sometimes Charles gets a little sniffy about those upstart Colonials. Silly Charles. Usually he is mollified after a daiquiri or two, and he does hull the strawberries nicely, and without being told. Camilla is rooting around the laundry room looking for the chairs we are going to take to Downtown Stuart to watch the fireworks over the river.

“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”
Erma Bombeck