Independence Day. Hot as all get out. Didn’t get anything done on the coop, didn’t cut grass either. I mostly did nothing, tried to recover from yesterday, hands wiped out. Ashley kept trying to get me to go to Lowe’s so she could go with, she had ulterior motive of stopping to get a Frosty or something. Kids played inside due to heat advisories, could only stay outside 10-15 minutes before be completely drained. Lesa played some card and board games with them. At 4p we watched Independence Day movie with Will Smith, it was being played back-to-back all day, Lesa allowed them to eat supper in the living room so they could watch it. Afterward, I got the fireworks prepped. We started with the things you throw on the ground and they pop, them sparklers, then we shot off some fireworks that had soldiers on parachutes, two ended up in the trees, one came down to where we could retrieve it, and the other blew up the soldier, came down a quad with no arms or legs. Bruce had a meltdown and all focus was on those damn things. Threatened to call off the remainder if they didn’t get it together. So next was the Roman candles and other artillery stuff. Two of our neighbors were shooting them off as well, we kind of did ours, waited for them, and repeat for the next couple of hours. Ended the night we more sparklers and then called it a night at close to 11p, maybe later, not sure. Kids wound up having fun after all.
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