The Slice: They delivered an amazing display

The Fourth of July is not a bad day to get started — especially if you believe in the idea of lucky numbers.

Don and Patty Johnson’s newest granddaughter, Gracia, was born in Moses Lake on 7/4. She weighed 7 pounds and 4 ounces and made her appearance at 7:40 p.m.

•Every little breeze: One recent evening, Spokane’s Mike Storms stepped outside for a breath of fresh air and to look up at the stars.

“But what should greet my nose but the indelicate scent of a skunk,” he wrote.

His first thought? “Near nature, near perfect.”

•Overheard in a North Idaho restaurant: “Oh, Howard. Mrs. Lindsay is not a vegetarian. She is a lesbian.” — submitted by Mike Poutiatine.

Of course, she could be a vegetarian lesbian.

•Slice answers: A majority of those responding to the question about what happens if you drive the speed limit around here told of getting vigorously flipped off.

Apparently one’s right to obey the law doesn’t extend to inconveniencing some emotionally stunted twit who is in a hurry.

•Yet another in an endless series of opportunities for you to weigh in: Deer Park’s Matt Watrous wonders if the Spokane area’s famously relaxed definition of “casual” attire has gotten even more, uh, flexible. “At recent weddings, I have noticed an increase in the wearing of jeans and athletic shoes, mixed with bad, ugly, old Hawaiian shirts,” he wrote.

Your thoughts?

•Born free: Three-year-old Brayden Hedenstrom had gotten wet running through the sprinkler outside his grandparents’ home.

So he got undressed. And Grandma was about to help him get into some dry clothes when she said it would be OK if he made one last mad dash through the water.

Brayden looked at himself. Noting that he was naked, he sought to confirm that it would indeed be OK for him to run through the sprinkler again, sans garments.

“With my body?” he asked his grandmother.

•Speaking of 3-year-olds: After an hour of full-tilt playing on the swings, slide, et cetera, Alta Adams’ great-grandson, James, took the 78-year-old woman’s hand.

“Grandma,” he said. “It sure is a lot of hard work going to the park.”

•Reader challenge: Tell about a time someone asked for your opinion and, after you gave it, that person got mad at you.

•A local property manager’s one-step guide to making sure you DON’T get your damage deposit back: Fire off a few dozen bottle rockets in the apartment.

•Warm-up question: What Washington or Idaho place name can also be found in the most other states? Long Lake? Fairfield? Athol?

•Today’s Slice question: Who was the all-time best-looking anchor/reporter on Spokane TV news? (Feel free to vote for one man and one woman.)