How do we feel about fireworks in the MMP?

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Happy Saturday.

Although annoying is a better descriptor.

At least the weather is nice.

My son sent me a text last night saying he was expecting to get off at 430.
My bladder woke me at 4, and then I see a text that power went out at his irk and he would be getting off at 630 or 7.
I figured since I was up, and not feeling too well, a nice soak in the tub would make me feel better.
Just as I was stepping out of the tub, he called to tell me he was done.
By then I’m feeling really sick, so I threw on a muumuu (hoping nobody would see me) and went to get him, feeling sicker by the minute.
As soon as I got home, I went to bed and didn’t get up until noon.
Didn’t help that my son ate a banana when we got back. As soon as I smelled it, the nausea really hit me.
I still feel icky but not as bad as earlier.

The problem was in my son’s section, and I’m surprised with how shy he is, he went straight to the manager to report it. He’s learning to speak up.

Ruby has been spotted multiple times, but she doesn’t stay still long enough for anybody to catch her, and by the time my friend gets to where she was seen, Ruby has long since moved on.
She seems to be in good shape as she was spotted playing through a fence with two other dogs. But as soon as the homeowner opened the door, she took off into the woods.
If she is in the mood to play though, she can’t be doing too badly.

I’ve decided not to get a rental car. Since I found out dogs are not allowed in them, there isn’t much point. My son has his 7 days off starting next Wednesday, so I’ll change the drop off date to Wednesday and if he has to work an OT day, I’ll figure something out then. My neighbor said he’d help out, and there is always Uber. Or he can take a day off. It’ll give him a point, but it won’t get him fired.
He sure doesn’t care if he misses irk.
His co-irkers bitch about losing money, he’s just glad to be out of there.

It also amazes me how many of those people, after irking a 12-hour shift, on their feet, are actually dancing as they come out. After 12 hours on my feet, I’d have to be carried out on a stretcher.

I haven’t done much of anything today, and I’m not about to start now.
I’m supposed to irk a few hours tonight, but I am seriously considering calling in sick.

My cousin’s daughter is getting married today. I didn’t go because I thought my son had to irk. Just as well, with me being sick.
One of my cousins died in April, the first one of us. Totally unexpected. Anyway, we got a notice that my son is mentioned in my cousin’s will. I assume it’s because my son is his godson. Or for all I know, he left something to all the children of his cousins’. My cousin never married or had children. I didn’t say anything to anybody, you know how people can get. Anyway, his sister will be at the wedding, and she is the executor, and I am hoping she doesn’t say anything to my mother or sister.
It’s nobody’s business what he left my son, just as it’s none of my business who else is in the will. But I know some family members will make it their business.
Probably the same ones who wanted me to give them the ring and desk I have from my grandparents. After my father died, they wanted those things back to keep in the family, because, you know, after my father died, I wasn’t family anymore. Or something.

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Yes, all of this. I really can’t understand why it’s legal to buy fireworks in New Hampshire when 85% of towns have ordinances banning them. OTOH, our town both disallows them and does nothing about people using them anyway.

I’d also like my neighbor’s tannerite targets to be confiscated for using them at 11:30pm on random Thursday nights this winter. Freakin’ things sound like civil war canons.

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Mac Mail stopped receiving emails yonks ago. iPhone just stopped receiving them recently. Live chatted with Earthlink, and the got the iPhone working. They took control of my Mac, got Mac Mail working except for an ‘exclamation triangle’ by the Inbox. The rep accidentally closed the chat window.

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Back from erranding, now in vegetate mode. Nails need to be prettified, but that’s for tomorrow.

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Howdy Y’all! We lounged at the cee-mint pond. We ate. We drank. We made merry. Then everyone left. Now chillage ensues within the air conditioned cave. I love company both coming and going. I hope everyone has had as pleasant a day as we have had.

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The rain let up enough to get mowage completed. Beyond that, not a whole lot else done today. I’m still coaxing the elderly mower along. Gotta carry a hand pump along, since the tire don’t hold air very long anymore.

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OK, email is now fully functional on both the iPhone and the Mac. Issue was I was set up with IMAP and I needed to be set up with POP.

I’ll miss continually deleting emails from my phone, but there are emails I want to get.

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Evening all. I had Sunday dinner planned for Red Robin (yum), but decided to go tonight since lawn mowage is on the schedule for Sunday and would mess up my planning. So have fed well and actually got outside some. Worked out the 3 month budget (I try to plan for 3 months, current +2, and usually remember all the expenses/assets) and have it posted. Not much else to report.

Feel better soon, Sari. And hope family won’t be too much of a pain.

Nut, glad your temporary housing sounds better than your current location.

Dicey, if you want steam locos, try Strasburg, PA (not far from Philly). It’s in Amish country, so it fits right in.

Shoe, that sounds like a wonderful night.

FCM, enjoy the firewerks…they are having a big thing at our park tonight, bouncy castles and foodtrucks so I presume the quiet we’ve been having will be spoiled in a couple of hours.

OK, onward into the night. We’ll see if somebody is manning the 800-number for my credit union, they have constantly screwed up my password and login and keep locking me out. So help me if this continues I’ll put my money somewhere that has a secure and
usable website.

All y’all take care.

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Glad your new temporary digs are nice nut.

Feel better soonest sari!

I decided against the party for two reasons: first, I’m just tired, second, the neighbors across the fence got stupid with fireworks last night. Nelson doesn’t collapse into a shivering mess with them, but he does get agitated and snarly. I’ve made arrangements ot bug out to a friend’s place up on the plateau tomorrow night, when the city puts on their show (I can watch most of them from my patio). Nelson doesn’t seem to be bothered by the air show and storms only bother him if the wind really kicks up, but fireworks get to him.

I need to contact da Jungle again to let them know that GPS is sending them to the wrong apartment again. They fixed the problem before and will do it again, I hope. GPS is also sending InstaCart to my neighbor’s apartment, so it’s a system error.

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Had a martini, and listened to some Sinatra for cocktail hour. Fireworks have started I’m glad Gordie isn’t bothered by the. My ex roommate’s 180lbs. GSD mix had to be cuddled during storms and fireworks.

Those are tasty.

Feel better, sari!

Good luck on the moving, nut.

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Isn’t the holiday tomorrow? There’s a ton of fireworks coming from various directions tonight … so I eventually decided if I had to endure the noise, might as well at least get to enjoy the show.

Didn’t really know where to go, though, so I wound up simply parked (with flashers) in the shoulder of the local road. Wasn’t the only one with that idea, either. From my vantage, I could actually see three or four big shows above the horizon/trees, plus the occasional random single bottle rocket or something.

Got mosquito bites :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: but at least I got to watch the sparkling things.

Can confirm that explosive things still go “boom” and that folks really enjoy celebrating by exploding things.

Oh, and my across-the-street neighbor (whom I haven’t seen before - visitors, perhaps?) set off a whole series of those little bottle rockets for kids. Naturally, I plunked my butt on the front steps to enjoy the free show right in front of me.

That was fun.

I’m fortunate that neither Nikki nor Monkey seem the least bit phased by the racket.
Well, they didn’t like the super-close stuff across the street, but that was only for a few minutes.

The big skyborne booms will continue well into the night, and be hours tomorrow. Thankfully, at least these two don’t mind.

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If only fireworks were for a handful of special occasions like 4th of July or maybe Chinese New Year. Here the detonations start in late May and become more frequent and longer lasting until the Jul 4 crescendo, followed by an equally slow tapering off.

Despite the fact that only mild fireworks like sparklers are actually legal here, people set off the hugest skyrockets, the kind sold in tubes that are three feet long and four inches in diameter, and which you would think posed a danger to low-flying aircraft.

The police? they don’t respond to anything less than a report of armed robbery these days.

Oh, did I forget to mention that they’re building a new house across the street and so after I’ve been kept up until A.M. waiting for the rockets to stop, the work crews are there bright and early to start hammering?

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I am, in fact!

As is typical when I come out of one of these depressive spirals, I eat … weird. Like, I’ll see an apple, which will make me think of peanut butter, and I’ll wind up just having a spoonful of PB straight outta the jar.

Currently having a mini-tube of croissants dipped in a tub of garlic pizza dipping sauce. Spoonfuls of straight maple syrup for dessert. Earlier this evening was brie & a bit of smoked salmon - no crackers.

Almost midnight and they’re still shooting them off out there. I guess in twenty minutes it’ll officially be the 4th of July, so maybe they’re just planning ahead.

Yeah, that’s it.

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As we were watching TV last night, I heard some booms and I thought it was random idiots, but turns out there was some sort of organized display somewhere in the county - maybe Leonardtown? That’s really the only place close enough to account for the booms. Nope, just looked it up - it was at Golden Beach. So now I know.

We’ll head to the Blue Crabs Stadium around 6:30 or 7-ish. Roxy can play in the bouncy houses and the kids’ ride area till the show at 9:30. I’m pretty sure she’ll crash as soon as she’s strapped in the car. I’m letting my daughter drive because of that - she just has to slow enough that I can hop out of her car at my house :open_mouth: then head to her place. No need to move Roxy from one car to the other. Plus night driving is becoming more of a challenge to me, so I mostly avoid it.

Not sure what the rest of the day will hold. FCD still has work to do and I can’t install the cabinet or the new TV without him. I’ve ordered a shower curtain and hooks for the basement bathroom - maybe I should do some scrubbing in there. It’s kinda gross. I’ve already emptied the dishwasher - that’s one chore out of the way…

We had rain again last night, which kinda ticks me off. I didn’t think it was supposed to precip and I left Roxy’s sandbox uncovered so it could dry out a bit. Now we see how that worked out. Dammit. :stuck_out_tongue:

Whatevah! I’ve breakfasted, and after FCD is up and about, I’ll shower and dress. Till then, surf on!

Happy Independence Day :boom: :boom: :boom: and Happy Sunday!!

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 71 Amurrkin out and fair (as opposed to unjust? murky? downright ugly?) with a predicted high of 91 and mostly N.O.S. though we might get some rain. Or not. The big item on today’s agenda is deheathenization. I shall be B Team Verger this mornin’ due to A Team Verger bein’ ill. I’ll do my best not to set the place on fire but no hard promises. We shall N.O.L. upon leftovers from yestiddy. Don’t mind leftovers especially when it involves cheesecake and strawberries. We may or may not have some quality cee-mint pond time this afternoon.

Happy Independence Day Amurrkin Mumpers! Lots of KA^BOOMS last night until midnight when they magically ceased. At least there’s that.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then purtification for deheathenization must commence.

Happy Sunday Y’all!

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Dumb question, but … how/where did you look it up?
I have no idea how to find the organized displays, short of combing each municipal website separately. (Ain’t nobody got time for that!)

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shoe - I googled fireworks in St. Mary’s County MD and I found a list of all the programs scheduled yesterday and today. The one in Golden Beach as the only one yesterday, and there are half a dozen scheduled in the tri-county area today, including the one we’ll be attending.

And now, I’m showered, dressed semi-respectably, and I decided today I’d attack my studio. Not only is it a disaster area, but I signed up for a pottery class on July 28, and I’m hoping it’ll get me motivated again to play in clay some more. But until I un-disasterize my studio, nothing will happen. Plus I need to get a new vent line for the kiln before I can start firing again. So, anyway, that’s the plan. Onward!!

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off today. I shall clean and putter. And listen to the critters snore(Alex Catt’s sounds like a mosquito soaked in Red Bull).

Cool. I still have the stuff you sent me. :slight_smile:

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Good morning friends and Happy Independence Day!

Yup, they were definitely going at it for hours with fireworks yesterday and last night. I wasn’t thrilled, but I am hopeful that it’ll slow down to nothing with the bangs after tonight.

I asked the kids if they wanted to come over to grill today, but both of the grandkids have summer colds, so they’re just staying home. I can’t blame them. It’s kind of hard to enjoy yourself when your kids don’t feel well and stick to you like velcro. My daughter just doesn’t get break because they only want her when they don’t feel well, so being home is just easier for them.

I don’t have any real plans for the day other than to make sure everything is well-watered and soaked before the “festivities” start. I need to wash the bedding too. I doubt anything will be open, but I’m half thinking about going out to get an electric power washer so I can wash my patio, porch and driveway. They need it.

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Seven of the clock. Just got up. Amazing. Half a cup o’ joe down.