It is hard to believe that it is the fourth of July (Independence Day). This year is really going by fast. I hope that everyone has a nice day and remember to recognize and be thankful for the freedoms we have. Last night I had a good laugh when I posted this message on Twitter
“I miss the old days when you would hear thousands of fireworks going off on our own street. Now it is illegal.”
If you are familiar with Friendfeed, you know that your Twitter messages are displayed on Friendfeed. Someone posted a response to my post that said…
“Stick it to the man! Light off a few bottle rockets and shake your fist!”
That was pretty funny and I got a kick out of that for sure. Well it is true how I miss the freedom we had when I was younger to pop fireworks, or fire crackers as we use to call them. I was watching a video that my dad made in 1976 when we were standing in the front yard on the second of July and it was amazing how many we could here going off all around us. It was continuous noise with some people setting off entire packages of 1,000 black cats. I do understand why they have made fireworks illegal with many homes burning down but I do miss the fun. Society as a whole has become a little more malicious these days and house fires would probably be worse today. It was fun though when we use to be able to get M80’s and blow things up. I am not old enough to have been able to use the cherry bombs that my parents used. I heard they were very powerful and could explode those thick vegetable cans. My dad, now at 70, told me an experience where he set one off on his neighbor’s out house while he was in there and there were turds blown all on the house and peach trees. I can only imagine how funny that must have been. I can just see him running away from the house laughing so hard that he could barely breathe. Anyway, although I understand the reasons for outlawing the use of fireworks in the city, I still miss the fun and wish my kids could experience the fun that I went through.
I told myself that I was going to sleep in this morning and I made it until 8:00 AM and that is as far as I could go. I am a morning person and I just love waking up to see the sunrise. I missed it this morning but it is still a beautiful morning before it gets too hot. I have to get out there and mow the lawn soon because it is looking like it has not been very well maintained. I hope you all have a wonderful fourth of July today and have a blast. This one day we can forget about the problems in the world. We can put aside our political differences and appreciate those military people that are protecting us today.
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