HOLY SMOKE! They just let off a Canon!

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.


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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Marching Bands, Bag Pipes & Floats! OH MY!




"...and all kindza cop equipment..." - Arlo Guthrie

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. <--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.

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." (smart dog)
((at least twice as smart as her owners. ))

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.

Oh, my. Such excitement. Me, I stayed home and had delivery pizza. Not too much excitement here

Dave

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.

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 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, It was Eartha Kitt's first 4th...
...she, like Goochie, was all excitement & curiosity!

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.

_________________
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! ...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. 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
little lady. I hope it doesn't effect her sweet disposition.

t'weren't my idea neither time.
(it wasn't a consideration when we signed either lease)

Why is the fourth of July?

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