So last night we had our Fourth of July bash at Bloke's house. It was a grand time and we watched the fireworks. Good food, good fun. Of course, we had to take photographs. As the babes were lining up Mary Beth noticed that she was wearing a green blouse. How gauche. This is the annual Fourth of July party after all, and Mary Beth should have certainly been more conscious of her wardrobe. So she desired to change the color of her blouse. This might seem familiar to you (see May 15). So after another single malt I agreed to her request. She wanted red. When I started working on the photo, it was clear to me that red wasn't going to work. Ginny was wearing red. I am no fashion mogul, but I figured that might lead to a request from Ginny to change the color of her blouse. Then Becca would want a change, then Pat, the Mary Beth would want a redo, then Ginny would... Oh hell, this could go on forever. So I decided that Mary Beth would be wearing blue.

As I was finishing up, I got an email from Mary Beth saying that she was telling her husband Chris that she didn't like photoshopping except in certain emergency cases like this one. Chris said that he felt that all photoshopped photos should be required to carry a unicorn logo (I have no idea where Chris got that one.) So, just to make Chris happy and, by transitivity, make Mary Beth happy I stuck a unicorn in the upper right hand corner. Please believe me that I have no intention of ever doing that again with an edited photo. I didn't want to start a trend which President Obama would decide ought to be regulated and require that all edited photos carry a unicorn watermark. That idiot would do something like that.