Friday, July 1, 2011

Happy Fourth of July Weekend to Everyone!

We all know what this particular holiday stands for, right?
I got that right! Here I go…Fireworks, ice cream, hot dogs, hamburgers, watermelons, boating, fishing, and dancing all weekend and every night for the next four days and all other great festive stuff; like making circles with those nifty sparklers!

Nah, not really, oh no; then what?
Well, I hear tell that as long as two hundred and thirty five years ago we became this great nation when we declared our independence from Great Brittan and a whole bunch of guys signed a document called the Declaration of Independence, how clever of them to name it that, huh?
Now oddly enough after fighting a war called, revolutionary, where a person on horseback warned the troops that the British were coming, the British were coming, yep it was twice so the story goes… That man was called Paul Revere if I recall correctly, some of the women in this day and age try to put a different spin on our history, but we all know the facts of what is or isn’t, don’t we? Why we learned it all in school when we were just little kids, which was quite elementary my friends, right?
Don’t listen to that poppycock that some may try to feed to you…

Moving on…This man Paul Revere was some heck of a guy because he saved many lives with his famous warning ride!
Battles were won and in the end we were a free nation and were able to sign that paper which was the declaration of being an independent nation; how truly marvelous and that is why we celebrate the day of the signing of that document on July 1, 1776 every year hence forward! Oh no, you say. Why is that?
It was on the fourth, not the first, oh darn, I always thought that was why everyone seems to celebrate this day too! Hmm, oh that’s right, it’s my birthday, no wonder no more! And oddly enough I share the day with Canada who calls it Canada Day another original moniker, huh? But they still have ties to the Motherland of Great Brittan, how truly strange, eh?
But it is not odd to them, now is it?
And yes, our nation’s birthday is Monday on the fourth of July and that again is originality at it’s finest, not! And no; no one would listen to me when I begged for them to change it to today for my birthday! So here we sit 235 years minus four days later celebrating this holiday of the birth of our independence and wild parties!

The closest I got to becoming part of that closed loop in history, personally, I do believe the ones involved in it are those twelve hundred, four hundred on each of those three ships, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. You remember the ones who go back generations with their heritage and genealogy coming from the Motherland… which I suppose that means Spain and Portugal since isn’t that where all those ships originated out of?
Any-who, but as I began to say it is our youngest son who was born in the year of the bi-centennial, 1976, and for all my hard labor, our darling child exhausting trial of being born, our son, our baby he only received a bi-centennial birth certificate. In other words, a red, white and blue document of paper quality and of course with stars and stripes with no other significant signatures of declaration other than ours and that he was born in the year of our two hundredth birthday, whoopee-tee-do!
But still that is pretty great and memorable, wouldn’t you all have to say?
No, well you find your excitement where you can and I will find mine, so there!
Happy Fourth early folks and all who desire to begin the festivities early on this historic day of my birth, go right ahead! And we all will as we should celebrate each and every day as if it was your special day, how about that for an idea?

Good night to all and count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!
If we can stop long enough from doing all the other so busy stuff!

LET THE WEEKEND FESTIVITIES BEGIN!

And please if I forgot to thank any of you for your lovely wishes for my day of birth please take that thank you right now; from my lips to your ears, OK?

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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