Happy Independence Day!
Project Hermes is on sale starting today. I thought it was apropos. Blink would also be apropos - it's on sale next week.
The neighborhood is full of people right now - most of whom I don't recognize. Friends of weekenders, I assume. And the new people who've bought homes recently. I'm looking forward to Labor Day Weekend. Or rather, the day after. That's when this place will return to normal.
I have a framed copy of the Declaration of Independence on the wall next to my desk. It was one of the first things we bought for decor after we moved here. Kind of a nod to our own freedom as well as to this wonderful country we live in.
The big fireworks show here is set for the 6th. We're not going. I don't enjoy fireworks - the loud noises, crowds of people, bugs... :shudder: More power to you if you do.
We have the best light show going on outside right now - fireflies. They're really going all out this year. So cheerful and pretty, but also quiet. Last night, it wasn't even dark yet and they were flashing out in the woods. =oD
Peace and quiet. It's a wonderful thing. It's my thing.
Tonight, I will lay in bed, pretending to be in a thunderstorm rather than cringing over every bang and boom. Once you realize that you can sleep through thunderstorms, sleeping through fireworks becomes easier. A couple times in my life, I lived quite close to railroad tracks. If I can sleep through that, I can sleep through anything.
We're not doing anything today. That's freedom, baby.
Have whatever kind of Independence Day you enjoy. Celebrate your freedom any way you choose*. Because, hey, that's what being free is all about.
*without infringing on anyone else's freedom, k?
Showing posts with label fireworks. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 4, 2019
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Thursday This n That
This weekend is the weekend before Independence Day. I expect the fireworks to start tonight and continue every night through like the 8th. Lucky for me I figured out the key to sleeping through fireworks - reminding myself that they are no worse than thunder and I sleep through thunder all the time. A plus this year - it's been super wet so no worries about some numbnuts starting the neighborhood on fire.
Speaking of wet, yesterday a storm stalled just north and a little west of here. I'm hearing it dumped like 6 inches of rain in a short period of time. This explains why my favorite animal shelter was showing pictures this morning of their flooded property. (The animals are all safe and fine.)
I got a little rant-tastic Tuesday evening (posted to OTB yesterday). It was actually quite cathartic. And I'm back to mellow me again.
Tonight is the big park meeting wherein the parks people will be looking for input on whether to keep the park open and continue to maintain it, or shut it down entirely and let it fall to ruin like a couple other parks in the area. We're still on the fence about whether to go. On the one hand, we'd like it maintained because people are pigs and without someone monitoring the park, people will trash it and it'll stay trashed. On the other hand, we're hermits and would rather not mingle with a few dozen of the locals - especially if nothing we say will make any difference. I'm just hoping that if they close it, they don't lock the gates. It's a great place to fish and it's the only one around here with a bathroom. If we go, I'll say something about it during Sunday's update post.
I didn't bother watching 'Dem Debate Day 1' last night. From what I'm seeing online, it was pretty much what I figured it was going to be - bashing Trump and competing to see who can offer the most free stuff to voters. I mean, that's pretty much their whole platform - 'Trump Bad. Get Free Stuff Here.' Personally, I can't afford these people giving any more free stuff away on my dime. And if you don't understand that the government has no money of its own, that all their 'free' money is money they took from you, then I can't help you.
Heh, mellow me.
The baby deers are so damn cute. (Yes, I said 'baby deers' because while fawns are cute, baby deers are cuter.)
Okay, I'm done here. What's the this n that for you today?
Speaking of wet, yesterday a storm stalled just north and a little west of here. I'm hearing it dumped like 6 inches of rain in a short period of time. This explains why my favorite animal shelter was showing pictures this morning of their flooded property. (The animals are all safe and fine.)
I got a little rant-tastic Tuesday evening (posted to OTB yesterday). It was actually quite cathartic. And I'm back to mellow me again.
Tonight is the big park meeting wherein the parks people will be looking for input on whether to keep the park open and continue to maintain it, or shut it down entirely and let it fall to ruin like a couple other parks in the area. We're still on the fence about whether to go. On the one hand, we'd like it maintained because people are pigs and without someone monitoring the park, people will trash it and it'll stay trashed. On the other hand, we're hermits and would rather not mingle with a few dozen of the locals - especially if nothing we say will make any difference. I'm just hoping that if they close it, they don't lock the gates. It's a great place to fish and it's the only one around here with a bathroom. If we go, I'll say something about it during Sunday's update post.
I didn't bother watching 'Dem Debate Day 1' last night. From what I'm seeing online, it was pretty much what I figured it was going to be - bashing Trump and competing to see who can offer the most free stuff to voters. I mean, that's pretty much their whole platform - 'Trump Bad. Get Free Stuff Here.' Personally, I can't afford these people giving any more free stuff away on my dime. And if you don't understand that the government has no money of its own, that all their 'free' money is money they took from you, then I can't help you.
Heh, mellow me.
The baby deers are so damn cute. (Yes, I said 'baby deers' because while fawns are cute, baby deers are cuter.)
Okay, I'm done here. What's the this n that for you today?
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Thursday This n That
The fireworks actually weren't too obnoxious last night. I made up my mind before bed to treat the noise like a thunderstorm. I sleep through thunderstorms all the time. No big whoop. It's all about perspective, doncha know.
Speaking of fireworks, Hubs read on the local news where the nearby wide spot in the road had to cancel their display. The company they contracted with to shoot off the display had a fire at their facility on Tuesday. Can you imagine? Fire at a fireworks factory. Scary shit there.
Once upon a time, back in 1992, I was engaged to a volunteer fireman and his department put on the fireworks display for the suburb of Chicago we lived in. One of the fireworks exploded on the ground. Yep, scary shit. (Until this morning, I'd forgotten about that. Score one for my memory.)
We've still only seen one fawn this year. I've named him Little Prince. He's so cute, gamboling around the yard. Then he noticed the water pan. He snuck up to it, but he must've seen his reflection in the water because he jumped and ran away. So cute.
Speaking of deer, Hubs just looked outside and they're already waiting for him. It's 6am, guys, have a little patience. Geez.
We tried to find a fireworks display on TV last night. Of the three TV specials that were supposed to be fireworks, all three had some kind of rock concert type thing when we switched over to it - including the Boston Pops one. And it wasn't the orchestra. It was some boy band or something, singing pop music. Bleh. I'm guessing if we'd sat through the hype we would've eventually seen fireworks, but who's got time for that shit? I want John Phillips Souza music with freakin' sparklies, dammit.
Despite not actually going to the fireworks in the great outdoors, I got eaten alive by mosquitoes yesterday evening. I was watering the gardens. So itchy. I did grab some plantains (broadleaf weeds, not the banana cousin) while I was out there and rubbed them on the bites I could reach while watering. That worked pretty good, but man, I was a pincushion by the time I was done. And everything needs watering right now because it's so damn dry. We had a rambunctious thunderstorm a couple days ago. Banging and booming and a minor power outage, but did it rain? Oh hell no. All we got was like two minutes of sprinkles. Just enough to make patterns in the dust on my car.
On a happier note, the ornamental grass I bought that I thought was probably dead is sending up new shoots.
Well, I could go on... and on and on... but I should probably get on with my day. What's on your this n that radar this morning?
Speaking of fireworks, Hubs read on the local news where the nearby wide spot in the road had to cancel their display. The company they contracted with to shoot off the display had a fire at their facility on Tuesday. Can you imagine? Fire at a fireworks factory. Scary shit there.
Once upon a time, back in 1992, I was engaged to a volunteer fireman and his department put on the fireworks display for the suburb of Chicago we lived in. One of the fireworks exploded on the ground. Yep, scary shit. (Until this morning, I'd forgotten about that. Score one for my memory.)
We've still only seen one fawn this year. I've named him Little Prince. He's so cute, gamboling around the yard. Then he noticed the water pan. He snuck up to it, but he must've seen his reflection in the water because he jumped and ran away. So cute.
Speaking of deer, Hubs just looked outside and they're already waiting for him. It's 6am, guys, have a little patience. Geez.
We tried to find a fireworks display on TV last night. Of the three TV specials that were supposed to be fireworks, all three had some kind of rock concert type thing when we switched over to it - including the Boston Pops one. And it wasn't the orchestra. It was some boy band or something, singing pop music. Bleh. I'm guessing if we'd sat through the hype we would've eventually seen fireworks, but who's got time for that shit? I want John Phillips Souza music with freakin' sparklies, dammit.
Despite not actually going to the fireworks in the great outdoors, I got eaten alive by mosquitoes yesterday evening. I was watering the gardens. So itchy. I did grab some plantains (broadleaf weeds, not the banana cousin) while I was out there and rubbed them on the bites I could reach while watering. That worked pretty good, but man, I was a pincushion by the time I was done. And everything needs watering right now because it's so damn dry. We had a rambunctious thunderstorm a couple days ago. Banging and booming and a minor power outage, but did it rain? Oh hell no. All we got was like two minutes of sprinkles. Just enough to make patterns in the dust on my car.
On a happier note, the ornamental grass I bought that I thought was probably dead is sending up new shoots.
Well, I could go on... and on and on... but I should probably get on with my day. What's on your this n that radar this morning?
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