Happy Independence Day!
Today I’m expecting several extended family members to come over to enjoy a BBQ dinner, and maybe watch a few fireworks after dark. Fireworks always make me nervous – they are pretty, but dangerous and I’m always afraid someone is going to get hurt or that someone will accidentally set the woods on fire, or the house, or both! Even though fireworks are illegal, ALL of the neighbors shoot fireworks off on Independence Day. That really surprised me the first year we lived here, I didn’t think anyone would be shooting them off. It is a suburban neighborhood, and one of the neighbors is a police officer. I figured for sure that meant no one would be doing anything as blatantly illegal as that with a police officer for a neighbor! But to be honest, I think that his family shoots off the most!
So it seems that all we have to do to enjoy fireworks after dark is to sit on our front porch and look around on all sides to see what all of the neighbors are shooting off! Quite a show! And the noise continues way past bedtime, which I don’t like, but I guess the smart thing for me to do would be to take a nap and just deal with staying up late tonight!