I am not sure what the other members of Team Perfection of Prudence our doing for this 4th of July (what are you doing?), but we are going to a cookout at some friends' house. We are not at home at the moment, but visiting family in the East. (So, we will be at Eastern Friends' House. Does anyone else categorize their friends by geography? Or places and times in which said friends were made? And if friends from differing categories meet, it is like ripping a hole in the space time continuum? That might be a post for another day.)
So, we are in the East for the 4th and it is quite a different experience than in the Midwest and that has a lot to do with fireworks. Fireworks are a huge deal where we live in the Midwest and I don't like it. Nope, not one bit. The indiscriminate lighting (or exploding) of fireworks leading up to and after the 4th is, well, excessive. And makes me cranky. Seems to get away from the point of the fireworks in the first place and there should be more emphasis on the reason we have a 4th of July celebration in the first place. It is not an excuse to have a cookout and blow things up. If that makes me a crank, then so be it.
That said, I am very happy to go and spend the afternoon with friends, eat good grilled food, have a glass or two of wine, and gaze at some lovely scenery. We have far too little of that lovely scenery in our corner of the Midwest. Well, it is there, but it takes a degree of work to find it and not just out your back door.
Happy 4th of July people. And while you're at it, read the Declaration of Independence.
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