Not What Our Forefathers Had In Mind

Well, I trust everyone had a great 4-day July 4th holiday weekend. However, upon experiencing some of the festivities, I'm not sure this is entirely what our forefather's had in mind. It seems that the holiday has become a drunken fest when we try to literally blow things up. Wow, it sure seems like there were a LOT of fireworks this year. There was a party in our neighborhood on Friday before July 4th, and it was huge. They had an entire truckload of fireworks, and it was a non stop barrage from 5pm through midnight. Our dogs were going nuts. Then, there were the professional displays. Fortunately, where we built our house, we can see three professional displays, looking south, north, and west. That's kind of neat. I tried to take the dogs outside to let them do their business right at the time that the show to our west kicked off. The fireworks were launched less than a mile from our house, but were exploding directly overhead. The dogs lost it, and were nothing but a pile of bubbling goo the rest of the weekend. On Monday, we attended a party at my sister-in-law's in-laws. They also had a pickup full of fireworks, and were blowing things up non stop. In fact, one of their biggest experiments was a roll of 8000 firecrackers that were all ignited at once. We think it literally blew a hole in the street. Another "illegal" artillery shell almost knocked us out of our chairs. Tuesday was a continuation of the festivities. Again, the dogs were having a hard time. So, all in all, I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday, celebrating their independence. But thank God, it's over for another year.