This Sunday, on the Fourth of July, America will turn 234.  But more interesting than that is Sherlock will turn 7!  Yay!

Long story short: We adopted Sherlock on August 5th, 2005.  Since he was adopted, they didn’t know exactly when he was born, but they estimated he was 2 years and 1 month old.  (I’m not sure exactly how they estimate that – by counting the rings in his ears or something?)  From that, we deduced/decided that Sherlock’s birthday was July 4th, 2003 — 227 years to the day after the birth of this great nation.

It works out, because that means every year on Sherlock’s birthday, we’ll be outside, grilling meat products, and, since it’s his birthday, giving him some hamburger and other assorted goodies.  (Though we go easy on the hot dogs, those tend to… how should I put this… lead to some malodorous situations later on.)

So Happy Birthday, Sherlock!  And Happy Fourth of July to all!