3 July 2012
With tomorrow being the 4th of July, the guys at my house have begun to prepare for the festivities. The chemical mixing has begun as well as about a mile of fuse to tie together a string of fireworks. The home made fireworks never work out quite the way they expect them to, but year after year they try again. It is all about the explosion!! The bigger, the better!! The louder, the more exciting!! This is the 4th of July.Being a kid, we were hillbillies in almost every sense of the word. We went to a friend's house who had dynamite, took shot guns, and made a hole the size of a pond every year. What a BLAST!! We ran around, played in the hose and did not have a care in the world.
When I was single I never celebrated the holiday with fireworks, we would just go to a BBQ or watch the neighbors shoot them off. It just so happens that my husband likes the 4th better than Christmas, and even though I see it as a ridiculous waste of money, it is what he looks forward to all year.
So tomorrow, I am sure will be an orchestrated disaster. There will be explosions an inch above our heads, something will catch fire, and at least one festival ball will explode against the house. This is the 4th of July on the Johnson Farm!
I am one of those people too. I love the fourth of July better than any other holiday. I start prepping for the this day way before the day even arrives. I get all of the chairs sat out, and pull the trailer out in the back yard to hook up all of my display up. I think why I get so much enjoyment out of it is because it makes so many people happy that come and see it.
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