Topic: CELEBRATING JULY 4TH, INDEPENDENCE DAY, SAFELY AND SOUNDLY, SAVING THE FIREWORKS (Read 6717 times)

bk · « **on:** July 04, 2022, 12:06:02 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes celebrated July fourth, Independence Day, and now it is time for you to post until the July fourth cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** July 04, 2022, 12:06:51 AM »

And the word of the day is: EGALITARIAN!

George · « **Reply #2 on:** July 04, 2022, 12:33:17 AM »

Topic of the Day: Dick Tracy with Warren Beatty, the first two original Superman movies with Christopher Reeve, the first Superman reboot with Henry Cavill, the first Wonder Woman with Gal Gadot, and the first Men in Black were all really good.

I've liked most of the Marvel movies that I've seen, so I won't list all the specific titles because there are so many. I haven't seen many of the DC comic movies since the first X-Men movies.

Otherwise, I do remember seeing Barbarella years ago, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was pretty funny.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 04, 2022, 04:11:18 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 04, 2022, 04:23:22 AM »

I slept well, but I had a dream about a friend of mine and DR Ginny who died in 2018. It was a strange dream in which my friend was trying to find her sister who had been missing for a week and getting the runaround from the Oxford, Ohio police dept. Thinking of her this morning, I'm rather melancholic.

singdaw · « **Reply #5 on:** July 04, 2022, 04:28:29 AM »

Good morning, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #6 on:** July 04, 2022, 04:28:43 AM »

The pie looks great.

singdaw · « **Reply #7 on:** July 04, 2022, 04:29:00 AM »

I spy with my little eye... something that is pie.

singdaw · « **Reply #8 on:** July 04, 2022, 04:31:13 AM »

Someone was telling me about a light show that was constructed from programmed drones, to take the place of fireworks in drought-stricken areas.

I imagine it might still make a noise, but a different form of noise from the pop pop pop.

singdaw · « **Reply #9 on:** July 04, 2022, 04:32:05 AM »

My father in law (gone now) hated fireworks. He said folks might as well just burn up their money outright.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 04, 2022, 04:32:35 AM »

Maybe it's the day as well. July 4 was always a big holiday when I was a kid, I think there might have been a parade in rthe morning - or was that Memorial Day? then all of my mother's siblings living in the area had a large gathering at my Aunt Jean's home in Hamilton, Ohio, withtons of food. I always looked forwartd to the grilled brats, since it was thev only time in the year I encountrered them. My mother always made great potato salad and baked beans, my Aunt Dorothy made macaroni salad and pimento cheese spread, which I have never liked. Of all those many cousins, aunts and uncles, only my brothers and I and my cousins Sue Ellen, Jeanne, and Jennifer survive.

That usually ended around 6:00, and by the time we got home and unloaded the car, it was time to get to Barnitz Field for the fireworks.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 04, 2022, 04:34:20 AM »

There has curiously been very little evidence this year of firecrackers. In the past, the racket began around July 2 and built to a frenzy on the fourth.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 04, 2022, 04:37:42 AM »

This morning I will definitely do laundry. Depending on how well my legs hold upo, I may vacuum; itt's hell pushing that Hoover around while juggling my balance with the vacuum cord and a cane.

singdaw · « **Reply #13 on:** July 04, 2022, 04:42:48 AM »

elmore3003 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 04, 2022, 04:44:55 AM »

DR vixmom, I am so unused to seeing you in glasses, I thought we had a new DR this morning. I remain jealous of your energy, humbled by your kindness and humanity, and blessed with your friendship.

vixmom · « **Reply #15 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:05:33 AM »

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vixmom · « **Reply #16 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:07:45 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 04, 2022, 04:44:55 AM

DR vixmom, I am so unused to seeing you in glasses, I thought we had a new DR this morning. I remain jealous of your energy, humbled by your kindness and humanity, and blessed with your friendship.

Thank you for the extremely kind words! But I am most confused about your comments on my glasses, perhaps they’re so much if my face that you’ve never noticed them, but I am virtually blind without them, I’ve been wearing them continuously since I was 9, I’ve had bifocals since 10

vixmom · « **Reply #17 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:09:12 AM »

Yesterday night there were a few pyrotechnic displays about the neighborhood, but thankfully few of the loud banging ones

vixmom · « **Reply #18 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:09:23 AM »

We’ll see what happens today

vixmom · « **Reply #19 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:09:43 AM »

Woke up sneezing with a sore throat

vixmom · « **Reply #20 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:10:56 AM »

Really hoping it’s allergies and that I wasn’t unknowingly harboring an illness when visiting with Bill and my brother

vixmom · « **Reply #21 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:12:06 AM »

Singsong, I never did tell the IKEA story, did I?

vixmom · « **Reply #22 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:13:21 AM »

The local IKEA has been woefully low stocked for over a year

vixmom · « **Reply #23 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:14:01 AM »

In fact, we were harboring suspicions that it was closing since so many shelves were empty

vixmom · « **Reply #24 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:15:15 AM »

We wanted to get a narrow bookcase to put into the room which is being redone since the ceiling fell in last February and could not find one anywhere

vixmom · « **Reply #25 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:16:12 AM »

Vixdad saw the perfect one on the IKEA website but it was always out if stock locally and not available for shipping

vixmom · « **Reply #26 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:17:14 AM »

Finally, after a few months of checking it showed up in the website as “in stock” at our local IKEA

vixmom · « **Reply #27 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:17:47 AM »

I say local, but I think it’s actually the only one in Long Island…

vixmom · « **Reply #28 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:21:22 AM »

Well actually there is one in Brooklyn, which is physically ON Long Island, although in the hearts and minds of those who live here, Brooklyn and Queens are not only officially part of the boroughs that comprises New York City but somehow magically not part of Long Island despite sharing the same land mass as Nassau and Suffolk counties (AKA lawn guy land)

vixmom · « **Reply #29 on:** July 04, 2022, 05:23:14 AM »

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