Jill has some memes so grand I grabbed a few, we let each other do that.  But the more I read the more I loved each one.  I try, but Jill finds the best.  She is grand.  As for fireworks.  We have cats that are traumatic sufferers and our inside / outside cat ran just as Ron went to get him because the first of the fireworks went off.  Ron stayed up until nearly 1 AM when he was able to get the cat back inside.   The poor thing lay on the bed shaking and struggling like every boom was at attack on him and his frail old body.   Like Jill, we had 6 to 8 hours of bangs and booms.  When Ron and I used to work 12-hour shifts in the hospital, the 4th of July was a horrible night to try to sleep when we had to be up at 4:30.  No respect for working people.  Our park even forbade people from doing it … but they still did their fireworks all night.   Really the people wanting to take other’s rights, others equality from them wanted to show their idea of freedom by again by infringing on the rights of others.  Hugs.  Scottie