I am not going to talk only about the heat wave sweeping the country because I know everyone else is, and knows how miserable this weather is! I think this is the first Fourth of July that I did not go watch fireworks, or shoot them off myself. I'm sure you can guess the reason...the weather. I was too afraid that I would shoot off a bottle rocket and it would catch my whole house on fire.
A trip down memory lane----
When I was little the Fourth of July consisted of the entire Kennedy family traveling down to Bull Shoals Lake for a mini-family reunion. Ma (my grandma) would make a huge spread of food and we would spend days there celebrating, eating, playing on the lake, visiting, and of course shooting off fireworks. Some of things in this spread of food were: potato salad, baked beans, chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches wrapped in aluminum foil hidden in the freezer, and pina colada cake. These are memories I will never forget. As I got older, so did my grandparents and soon we found ourselves moving them up to Hillsboro, Missouri. Because of time, and how it typically impacts everything, we found our Fourth of July tradition changing and becoming something else.
I don't think we have established a tradition as of yet, but we do still try to get together with the family that is in town and BBQ. Staying true to form this is what we did today. My mom and I made the traditional meal minus the chocolate chip cookies, and invited the family over to just come hang out. Since this heat wave has impacted about everyone I know, and there have been numerous warnings about fireworks, our family opted to NOT shoot off fireworks this year and instead watch a display on T.V. This was a first for me. Sitting inside, and watching fireworks on T.V. from Boston. I do have to say I enjoyed seeing the fireworks on T.V. in the comfort of A.C rather than sweating to death and potentially having an anxiety attack every time a firework went off. The link to the Boston Pops Firework Display is below. It was an interesting change of pace, and I'm hoping that next year I'm able to at least light a sparkler!
Boston Pops
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