We kept the grandson part of this past weekend and when Pat and I and little Liam were riding around on Sunday we drove by several fireworks stands.
It’s hard not to drive by one as many as there are around and they’ve been selling fireworks for at l e a s t a couple of weeks already.
Liam, who will be 7 in August, brought up the subject a time or two as we passed by the stands.
Saturday night, since we live outside the city limits and can do it, Pat and he shot off some of the colorful smoke bombs.
Last year we had our family members here on July 4, we cooked out and we set off fireworks.
Liam was old enough last year to be able to take the fireworks to his dad who was setting them off.
We are really looking forward to the 4th on Friday with our daughter Meghan, Liam and Terry here to help us celebrate.
We pretty well know what our plans are going to be this year on the 4th since it’s on Friday and Terry was able to get off so we can actually do this on the 4th.
Pat has the menu planned I think, and from what I can tell we’re not cooking out. But that’s fine.
When I was a kid growing up, July 4th was a big deal. You could still purchase cherry bombs, bottle rockets, M2’s, just all sorts of stuff. I, and some of my cousins, because Uncle Ed was gracious enough to take us, would go out to other relatives’ farms, away from the cattle, and shoot them off.
I look forward to July 4, even though it gets pretty noisy usually around our neighborhood.
Quite a few on our block shoot off fireworks.
A few in our neighborhood even have large gatherings.
What I probably like best about it is spending time with the family and watching Liam and his dad do the fireworks.
In past years, we’ve had some of those large family gatherings, cooked out, I’ve even helped set off the fireworks while others on our block and in the neighborhood were setting off theirs. We hadn’t d o n e much of that setting them off in a few years until last year but we had a good time.
When our daughter Meghan was growing up, we purchased fireworks, even continued to do it until several years ago when, for whatever reason, we just stopped.
But now that Meghan and her husband Terry and the grandson are interested in doing some of that, it’s fun again. A couple of years ago in addition to them, we had my sister Maureen and her husband Randy and their daughter Kara and her husband CJ and their son Wayman and really had a good time.