Happy 4th Of July, To Every American Corfidians.,,

[Jesse Joe]

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Happy July 4th, to every American Corfidians...Jesse. :)


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[ July 04, 2006, 14:03: Message edited by: Jesse -Joe ]

[BILLW]

Thanks JJ although I kind of like 'Independence Day' which is the formal name, LOL. It's a holiday here tomorrow so y'all c'mon by - the pool's open !

Bill :)

[Shutup and Deal, I'm Losin']

Speaking of which, I need to watch that movie INDEPENDENCE DAY with Will Smith. :)

[Borderstone]

I.D. with Will Smith? :rolleyes: Saw it in '96,it was okay and once was enough. :) No offense.

A big happy fourth to all of you! :cool: I'm off tomorrow so I'm going to part...no wait,I'm going to get do.... :confused: ....well,I'll do somethin'! :D Later!

[Janice]

Thanks Jesse-Joe, and I hope you had a very fine Canada Day celebration!

[Auburn Annie]

Frankly I hate the Fourth of July - not the idea or celebration or cookouts etc. It's the idiots in the 'hood shooting off (illegal) fireworks at all hours of the day and night for a week or more in either direction of the 4th that drives me nuts. It was nearly 2 a.m. before I dropped off last night. The last pop-pop-pop-pop I heard went off at 1.

We're having a wet 4th here. Between the thunderstorms and neighborhood firecrackers going off, our poor dog is freaked - literally trying to climb the living room wall or digging a hole (in the hardwood floor) in which to hide himself. He has a crate which works fine for simple rumbles of thunder but just try to get him in it when he hears "POP! POP! POP!" or the whistle of bottle rockets. As I type he's sitting at my feet under the computer desk with all its wires and cords under his rump. At almost 80 pounds he's too big to tuck under my arm and carry off to his crate. I've got him partially sedated now - he gets loopy on about a quarter dose.

I may skip the family picnic this year and stay home with Samson; I don't like leaving him alone for that long when he's this stressed.

Hoping for a quieter 5th (ha)....

[brink-]

Emma was the same as Samson, Annie. She still hears some but at 17 her hearing is not very good and frankly for that I am thankful. Even here in the middle of nowhere the fireworks are constant. We have a fire ban/fireworks ban but that doesn't stop them. What freaks me out is that kids under 10 are shooting a lot of them off.

[geodeticman]

J-Joe - Thank you Sir, and to you and yours too, as Janice indicated.

Auburn Annie - I agree about the kids and dogs. Our Siberian Husky, who died this year, went through 16 years of sheer terror at these noises; the vet would have to "sedate" her, or we'd head to the mountains and visit my folks in years past on the edge of RM Nat'l Park for a deck cook-out.

The fire potential is incredible here in central Colorado, as we are in what's called the "Red Zone" in our state as defined by the local ag University.

There are so many homes here on steep hillsides in the foothills to the peaks that without mitigation of the ladder-fuels, etc., we are statistically just waiting to go up in uphill-flames. And the cheap-a** developers have done to many "one way in and out" roads in mountainous subdivisions here.

I'd usually be out hosing down my roof and trees most of any 4th we'd stay home. It's a shame, as I recall how much fun it was when i was little to light those 'crackers.

But even as a kid, I DID worry about that "whoosh" of the uncontrolled trajectoy of the bottle rockets.

A local news channel here stated that most structural fires in Colorado are caused on the 4th by SPARKLERS, of all things. weird.

Brink - agreed - and what is more, when I was 10 or so, all sparklers/whirleygiggs etc. were supervised by my parents, and THAT is a thing of the past, by and large - parental supervision.
Why.. by dingees , back in MY day.... LOL


- Steve