A Flag is Flying

We live in a very patriotic town.  This makes us happy.  There are multiple military families in our neighborhood as well as among our church friends.  At home in Vermont from time to time we had an American flag flying.  Flags tend to wear out in the sunshine but there is something wonderful about having the symbol of our free country always in front of us.

Dear One did a great deal of research about flying flags, etc.  This week everything came together and now we have a flag flying on our house.

This is what we saw when we came home from Family Home Evening the other night.  Dear One had put the solar powered lawn light to "battery up" the day before in the bucket where string bean seeds are hopefully getting ready to break through the dirt on the back porch then again in the morning that day.  He spray painted the cast-iron flag holder and when it was dry attached it to the house.

It was really wonderful to see the flag flying when we came home late that night.  The solar powered light lasts at least as late as 5:30 AM (which is when Dear One got up and checked.  When he got up for real, it was day time so we don't know...but 5:30 is most of the night!)