Monday, July 4, 2011

THE FOURTH!

Now that I hope I have gotten your attention…how’s your day going so far, hmm?
Fireworks are scheduled for later here, usually around nine P.M., good thing we had all that rain with our drought it did look like for a while that we might have had to cancel due to extreme fire danger, but we are good now and a bit soggy… It reminds me of the expression, “be careful what you wish for”, or even its companion one, “too much of a good thing”, huh?

We have a nice advantage here of being able to see fireworks right from our backyard or dock, only missing the ground displays though.
But what we have done previous years when we had company is to take the boat out into the harbor to watch them and that was pretty great too!
These days though we do enjoy our temperature controlled availability of our easy chairs in our living room and tuning in New York’s, Boston’s or even Washington D.C.’s display offerings, which are always quite spectacular with music accompaniment as well.
When we lived in Ormond Beach they too would offer the fireworks over the Halifax River and there we would also take our boat out and for the last few years that we were there they would simulcast a musical accompaniment just like the big cities would, pretty grand! I do think they do it here too but perhaps from our vantage points we have not heard it over our current Peace River display from Punta Gorda.
The last year in good ole New Jersey it was the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty in 1986 and she had just been redone and we had the really great advantage of having my old friend, the one in my bridal party, owning two condos on the Hudson River in Fort Lee New Jersey and we were able to see all the excitement from either balcony as well as the TV simulcast. The boys, our sons, were ten and fourteen then a little over a month before we moved to Florida, a very nice memory… really!

Our governor has made his way here for today’s festivities, Governor Rick Scott. I am leery of why he chose us of all the other cities to choose from including his home one of Naples about eighty miles from here; although before he ran he had not been a Floridian for very long at all… He did throw out the baseball pitch at our stadium so the news says.
But most in the state who voted him in are wondering too how they made such a BIG mistake. I’m not wondering at all since I did NOT vote for him since I believed him not to be a good choice at all. He has in his many ideas of trying to balance the state budget angered nearly all of the teachers, police and fire men and women with his suggested cuts of pensions and other earned and paid into benefits… he really scares me! You betcha!

If I knew I could send him a letter without losing my cool I definitely would, but he enrages me so much with some of his ideas that I feel I could not and so here I sit not doing what I suggest for us all to do, let the higher ups know how we truly feel!
I even posted his email address once on my Facebook page hoping one of the others who feel as I do may have better self control than I… and that they would write to him to let him know that he must find other ways to fix the problems and to be honest I really wonder how it got so bad, it seems just all of a sudden. Could we have dishonest people running things and heaven forbid embezzling our state monies?
Nah, as we all know elected officials are always honest, aren’t they?
Now get off the floor!
I knew I could get the saddest of you to laugh today if the rainy weather took the fun out of your day and got you down, I sure hope not, do not despair since the best is about to come…with those colorful fun-filled dazzling sparkling skyways nearly filling them all up with grandeur that makes the biggest pessimist realize just how much simple things in life can be enjoyed!

On that more than positive note of joy to the American world of lights and noisy wonderment let me be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

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

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! To all and to all a very good night…hmm, sounds familiar, huh?

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