Happy 4th of July!

[my07mcx2]

this timely article is worth a quick read. Please remember you are affecting other people and pets when you light off fireworks.

Denver animal shelters seeing more runaway dogs due to fireworks | KRDO

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Ron, Steamboat Lake just cancelled their fireworks!

 

[Ron]

Ron, Steamboat Lake just cancelled their fireworks!

For the life of me, I couldn't understand how they were going to have them. that whole region is a tinderbox with very remote and terrain that is difficult to access with equipment.

 

[Posaune]

Speaking of big booms nearby, when I was a kid I lived on a lake. The folks next door used to go to the Indian reservation and buy huge amounts of illegal boomers. They had an old dock that they would shoot the fireworks from out toward the lake. A guy was on the dock with a Roman candle shooting it away from the dock, but the big box of fireworks was just behind him. The last ball to shoot out of the Roman candle went backwards, between his legs and into the huge box of fireworks. The entire thing blew up and burned the dock to the waterline. I have an image in my mind of the folks on the dock diving into the lake in silhouette with the bombs bursting on the dock. Nobody was injured, but it ended the show.

 

[James]

I have an image in my mind of the folks on the dock diving into the lake in silhouette with the bombs bursting on the dock.

“...The bombs bursting in air.
Gave proof to the night,
that our dock was burned down...”

 

[pchewn]

We had a wonderful time celebrating Independence Day with lots of people on the beach in Seaside Oregon. We cleaned the beach up after the fireworks and again in the morning. It is the cleanest beach right after the fireworks!

Video here

 

[Gary Stolt]

While enjoying the picnics, BBQs, food, adult beverages & fireworks, remember why today is so important!
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@Tricia posted this over on FB. Red Skelton was a class act.

Happy 4th to you miss ski nurse.

 

[SkiNurse]

Happy 4th to you miss ski nurse.