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#619246 - 07/04/14 03:59 PM 4th of July Parade
Celandine Offline
Madame Flutterbye

Registered: 01/18/04
Posts: 19514
Loc: SopranoLand

HOLY SMOKE! They just let off a Canon! shocked

This is the first time in my life
that I've found myself living on MAIN ST, USA!

The parade is passing before my bedroom window
and as chance would have it,
I'm getting the best of the best,
being that the JUDGES VIEWING STAND
is located only one house down from mine. laugh


sux that i'm too sick to get down & back up
my stairs or I wouldn't be watching from a window.
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#619248 - 07/04/14 04:21 PM Re: 4th of July Parade [Re: Celandine]
Celandine Offline
Madame Flutterbye

Registered: 01/18/04
Posts: 19514
Loc: SopranoLand
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Marching Bands, Bag Pipes & Floats! OH MY! laugh




"...and all kindza cop equipment..." - Arlo Guthrie
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#619251 - 07/04/14 05:12 PM Re: 4th of July Parade [Re: Celandine]
Celandine Offline
Madame Flutterbye

Registered: 01/18/04
Posts: 19514
Loc: SopranoLand
Ted just came in with the Parade Report:

Ms. Joe duh Plumber brought their bulldog out
in the midst of the parade passing by...
...Goochie was cool with the marching bands,
and even the Fire Trucks blasting their horns
and sirens. laugh <--all puppy curiosity

So Ms. Plumber took Goochie walking along the
route passed the reviewing stand... that's
when they fired the canon again to mark the
End of the Parade............................

One wouldn't think a dog that small could drag
a grown woman along the ground for two blocks. eek

Ted dashed out and caught the dog while everyone
else dove out of the way and "puppy-talked" her
down, and lead her inside the common hallway, at
which time, she positioned herself in the doorway
and gave Ted a look like;"Iz Kewl, Thanx. I think
I'll just watch from here for now." smile (smart dog)
((at least twice as smart as her owners. smirk crazy crazy ))
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#619316 - 07/05/14 10:41 PM Re: 4th of July Parade [Re: Celandine]
Celandine Offline
Madame Flutterbye

Registered: 01/18/04
Posts: 19514
Loc: SopranoLand

I had a chance to talk with Liz today...
...it seems I'd misunderstood the extent
of bulldogging incident.

Luckily she'd only sustained a few minor
scrapes, bumps & bruises from having been
dragged across OUR LAWN!

She said when Goochie got startled by the
unexpected explosion, she turned tail and
began making for home, with Liz unable to
stop or get her back under control.

Our lawn is raised sharply off sidewalk level
and it was at that point that she'd lost her
footing and dragged uphill across aprox 30'
of lawn, our walkway, then discombobulated
as Goochie darted left around a baby stroller,
while Liz (still clutching the leash) rolled
to the right.

Ted ran forward and scooped up Goochie, and
'baby talked' "oooooo... it's ok... you're ok,
bu bu bu bu it's alright" till she reverting
back to being her 45 pound puppy self. crazy
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#619321 - 07/06/14 05:38 AM Re: 4th of July Parade [Re: Celandine]
MrB Offline
I invented modding!

Registered: 08/28/03
Posts: 9722
Loc: SE Kansas
Oh, my. Such excitement. Me, I stayed home and had delivery pizza. Not too much excitement here

Dave
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#619353 - 07/06/14 03:23 PM Re: 4th of July Parade [Re: Celandine]
yoyo52 Offline
Nothing comes of nothing.

Registered: 05/25/01
Posts: 30520
Loc: PA, USA
I hate the fourth. Not the Fourth, but the fourth. This year was particularly bad. A lot--I mean a heck of a lot of big explosions randomly timed to wake you up so you couldn't sleep. And then last night the raucous noise from across the street till 1 a. m., when I called the cops. It's over now, I hope.
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#619364 - 07/06/14 07:36 PM Re: 4th of July Parade [Re: yoyo52]
Celandine Offline
Madame Flutterbye

Registered: 01/18/04
Posts: 19514
Loc: SopranoLand
Originally Posted By: yoyo52
I hate the fourth. Not the Fourth, but the fourth. This year was particularly bad. A lot--I mean a heck of a lot of big explosions randomly timed to wake you up so you couldn't sleep. And then last night the raucous noise from across the street till 1 a. m., when I called the cops. It's over now, I hope.


Allow me to introduce my 2 uncles, Ben Dare & Don Dat. wink

As posted in years-gone-by, I'd posted that I was
exactly ONE BLOCK from Bloomfield's Municipal Stadium
resulting in those wInDoW RaTtElInG car alarm activating
*BOOMS* going off IMMEDIATELY OVER MY HOUSE

Never bothered me smile The only PItA was that the only
way to watch the display was to sit on the lawn,
and crane your neck by looking directly over the house.

The only "Fourth" we had an issue was with the next
door neighbor, frown It was Eartha Kitt's first 4th...
...she, like Goochie, was all excitement & curiosity! laugh

She was in her Kitty Hammock with her nose pressed
to the screen watching the little "Lady Fingers"
and "whizz-bang"s being let off by the drunken idiots
next door... who thought it would be JUST HILARIOUS
to aim one of their bottle rockets directly at her.

It exploded & bounced harmlessly off the screen...
but that was THE END of July Fourth for the rest of life.

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She was "gun-shy" for the next 12yrs she was with us.

OK, what really concerned me was a similar incident
involving myself (and not sure about the other girls)
when one of our idiot boyfriends lobbed an "M80"
(1/4 stick o' dynamite) into our "Hen Circle" which
of course EXPLODED! mad ...I didn't know until later that
it had ruptured my eardrum, requiring more antibiotics.

Anyway...
it wasn't until recently that it occurred to me
to have had her ears checked. frown I still wonder now if
that Bottle Rocket did more harm than to just cause
her to fear any kind of loud noise even thunder.

That was the first thing I told Ted about Goochie...
While I doubt the explosion was actually close
enough to cause physical damage, but she's a kewl smile
little lady. I hope it doesn't effect her sweet disposition.
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#619367 - 07/06/14 07:52 PM Re: 4th of July Parade [Re: MrB]
Celandine Offline
Madame Flutterbye

Registered: 01/18/04
Posts: 19514
Loc: SopranoLand
Originally Posted By: MrB
Oh, my. Such excitement. Me, I stayed home and had delivery pizza. Not too much excitement here

Dave



t'weren't my idea neither time.
(it wasn't a consideration when we signed either lease)
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#619379 - 07/06/14 09:11 PM Re: 4th of July Parade [Re: Celandine]
lanovami Offline
This space for rent

Registered: 05/02/05
Posts: 7405
Loc: 東京都
Why is the fourth of July?
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#619383 - 07/06/14 09:17 PM Re: 4th of July Parade [Re: lanovami]
yoyo52 Offline
Nothing comes of nothing.

Registered: 05/25/01
Posts: 30520
Loc: PA, USA
Originally Posted By: lanovami
Why is the fourth of July?


You need something between the 3rd and the 5th, don't you? wink
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