~Sounds~

I was sitting at my favorite spot by the back door when I heard a bang, my first thought of course was a gun, but it wasn't, was a firecracker. I had forgotten its the 4th of July soon. From what I'm hearing there will be no fireworks then but there will be during the magic week. That's like in Three Rivers, I didn't know or realize that there were none on the 4th there either. The ones I saw were from the River Festival.. :-) Well they were fireworks, that's the main thing and these small towns have some of the best even compared to the bigger cities, no matter when they have them... When I was married to my last husband, David, the 4th was a biggie, he and his brother Mark, would save all year that they both contributed to every so often, then come time to buy them they had the funds. They were like little kids in a candy shop when it came to buying fireworks and some were really great. One he got was a bomb almost and I know it was good at making HOLES ! :-) But we had lots of good times with his brother and 2 sisters, the 4th was a big day, first at his mom's then back at our place where we and David's sister Laura and her family lived. It was a really nice condo I called it.. It had a huge back yard and past that were the rail road tracks and then a field. Perfect for fireworks.. :-) There were us 8 adults and there were 6 kids. We would line up lawn chairs out back and David and Mark and their nephew Stevie would take turns lighting them. The kids loved it, well so did we, it was fun. A few close calls but no accidents.. One of the bottle rockets fell over and came directly at us all sitting there like ducks in a row, wanna see a bunch of people move fast, and as each adult stood up and ran they grabbed a kid and ran ! We all did that on rainy days too .. We didn't have any kids, but one rainy picnic when that happened I grabbed one of Jen's girls David grabbed her boy, when we got back to the car, here's Jen standing out there in the rain wondering who grabbed her kids ! :-) Making sure someone had them ! We usually yell at who grabbed who.. but that day it was such a quick storm we just grabbed and yelled... :-) Poor Jen she was the only one that got WET ! :-) Amazing at the nice memories that just a sound will bring back to you. Specially when they are good ones and I can remember many nice 4ths, specially on the river, watching the parade of decorated boats go up and down it.. Some went all out to decorate their pontoon, In fact Mark's wife and Jen, and I had considered decorating up Jims pontoon and joining them but we never did. We should have it probly would have been fun.. :-) Well, my next fun is to close this, post it and get some lunch for this GORGEOUS WEEBLE :-) But, you know I shall return :-) I KNOW you shall be patiently waiting, are you smiling? :-) Y'all have a good one now, Y'hear? Love ya and Thanks! Always, Lois **** "God Bless You", is my prayer today, I'm honored to call you Friend, I pray the Lord will keep you safe, Until I write again...