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Happy Fourth of July! I love the reason for this holiday, but I hate how we celebrate it. We live in a suburban neighborhood where it is illegal to shoot off fireworks, and frankly, dangerous. We are dangerously close to a drought here. Today was the first good rain in days, and people are shooting fireworks off. Not little ones mind you, but Roman-freaking-candles. They are shooting them off around twenty to thirty feet, or less in the air. I always notice that people that do this never seem to shoot the blasted things over their house, but will shoot it so it comes over mine or someone else’s. If they’re going to set a house on fire shouldn’t it be their own they put at risk? Before anyone writes in and says, well it’s just a few fireworks, it can’t hurt anything . . . Check out the stats for injuries and fire damage every blasted year on account of fireworks. Our house is besieged this year with fireworks shooting off in front, behind, to the side. My dogs are spooked, my kid can’t sleep, and last night they shot the things off until midnight, at least. Last night we tried to be a good sport because most of us got the day off, but tomorrow the work week begins again, and you can’t sleep with this going on.
We’re off to try and sleep. Happy Fourth, hope your neighbors are more considerate than our’s are, this year.