Happy 4th of July to American jellies?

Tolerating the neighbors’ fireworks tonight, it may be worse on the 4th.

On the 4th taking advantage of the day off with a long bike ride, then a cookout with friends & family.

Binge watching season 11 of Supernatural in the air conditioning.

I’ve grown tired of the holiday. We have neighbors who set off illegal fireworks for two weeks before and two weeks after the holiday. I’m talking meth house explosion sound level. It’s very annoying.

Fireworks are illegal in my county, too high a risk for wild fires. I’ll be home on the ranch here, maybe go for a swim. I go to a fireworks show every few years. I love fireworks shows but not the crowds and the parking PITA. I’m good.

Staying home. They should just ban fireworks altogether, don’t see the point.

I’ll be working. Dealing with the riff raff….

I open this question and I was going to talk about how things have been minor since I live on campus and the kids have mostly gone home.

Then I take a pee and sit back down at my computer and there is a loud bang.

So not all the idiots went home.

I don’t care about the bang. But it was loud enough to to wake up my goldfish so this is not ideal. And I am drunk and I was hunting this morning and I haven’t dissembled my rifle yet.

Hopefully I don’t chase around frat-boys with a rifle again tonight. Eventually I will get caught.

We went to Lexington, “birthplace-of-the-nation”, Massachusetts last night and watched a pretty average fireworks display.

Usually, I drag my husband to the fireworks, but I’m not going to this year.

This year I’m hoping to see Wonder Woman in the theater, and then go to Scooter the DJ in one of our town squares. A bunch of friends should be at Scooter too. I might save the movie for a different day.

Video from Scooter’s fast food song I never heard this crazy song until I moved to this crazy place. Lol.

Video of the kids here (grandkids visiting, and local children) singing Let it Go. They aren’t really allowed on stage. Don’t tell the people in charge. :)

The Wobble Yes we regularly have 75 year olds doing the wobble here.

It’s like being at a bar mitzvah when the DJ is in the square. Lol.

Had a great boardwalk night last night at my friends’ band’s gig. Saw some fireworks that were fairly lame. There’s better ones tonight but not sure I want to fight the crowds.

Can’t say as I’m feeling the 4th much this year – don’t see a lot to celebrate.

@JLeslie – That’s really cool allowing the kids on stage. In The Wobble the “Lady in black” seems to be enjoying it thoroughly..)

@janbb – i can understand..)

Wobble, electric slide, they do it all. It’s a lot of fun.

Morning canoe paddling workout. Yard work. More canoe paddling at 1700hours. This evening go to bed early.

With its explosions and resultant air pollution, it’s the most annoying holiday.

I might celebrate the 5th if I don’t hear any fireworks.

Not only was Scooter the DJ there, but so was the The Villages drum corps with majorettes, and a few were throwing fire lit batons into the air, and then later our very own Village cheerleaders.

I was on one of Charleston’s many islands last night. When the fireworks were going on, they were shaking the buildings. I couldn’t help but think of the revolutionary, and civil wars. The harbor, and surrounding areas are so flat. I’m sure people could hear the explosions for miles around. At one point, I saw the old city/peninsula under the glow of the fireworks. I felt like I was back in time.

My father said his grandmother used to tell stories about the war in Charleston. Citizens used to watch the battles from their porches. Soldiers would be marching through the streets. Smoke from the gunpowder wafted through the air.

As far as the revolutionary war, I often work just a couple miles from Fort Moultrie. The very reason my state has a palmetto tree on it’s flag. The fort was made with the local trees (palmetto trees.) Unknown, until that time, those trees absorb cannon balls amazingly. They didn’t shatter like oak, or pine, and produce dangerous shrapnel. The soldiers were even able to pull British cannon balls from the walls, and fire them back at them. I worked as a deck hand on one of the Fort Sumter tour boats, as a teen. Straddled the cannons on the Charleston battery, as a kid on field trips. I fish in Hell Hole Swamp, where the Swamp Fox hid out, and helped defeat a vastly superior opponent.

Our country has a lot of history of people fighting for their beliefs. Not just bending to the will of others. I’m pretty ashamed of my country right now. But the fact that the people can raise up, and fight, gave me a sliver of hope. Hope that we will somehow free ourselves from the tyranny of Trump, and the wealthy.

I hope that all of us do what we can to make America great again. By that I mean, take it back. Stop Trump, and the GOP from putting the country on a track it cannot return from.

If Trump is not in office next July 4th, there will truly be something to celebrate…

Happy 4th America. Please don’t give up the fight.

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