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Originally Posted by Palaaemon
I will be doing much of the same today (minus the hike). Was playing OOTP and watching the Royals game until the rain delay then took a break and went to help my wife with her project.
You know it's interesting the things we loved as kids sometimes we end up no longer enjoying or worse as adults. I am speaking of fireworks. I used to love them in my younger years, not to say that I am THAT old (only 47). Now though I cannot stand them. I do love the joy it brings the nieces and nephews and other kids but they are not for me. Here in Kearney, Nebraska where we live (GREAT! place to live btw) you can buy and shoot off fireworks for about 6 days before and of course the 4th. The thing that chaps my wifes ass is that the ordinance says 10pm stoppage on weeknights and nobody seems to follow that going to 1-2am when my wife has to work early in the morning. So yea, good times.
Anyway, have I ever asked you what your favorite MLB team is. I always hate to assume but if I was a betting man (which I have been known to be a time or two) I would say Detroit. Do I win a prize? Ding ding ding!
Break time is over. Going back to check to see if the rain delay is over and continue playing again. Talk to you laters!
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Well, I do live in Denver, so a 4th of July hike is nearly a requirement.
Not really, but I can say that as I was driving back into the city this morning there were long lines of cars at all the parks in the foothills. At least one of my co-workers left work early yesterday to head up to a campsite for the holiday weekend with her family. Such is Colorado life.
I hear stories about all the crazy fireworks going off in suburban neighborhoods here- and in my mother's neighborhood back in Michigan. Fortunately, I experience little of that here. Living in the inner city (not downtown, but downtown is very much within view from my neighborhood), for whatever reasons there isn't much of that in the neighborhood. Possibly because we can see and hear several organized fireworks displays from various vantage points (fireworks at Coors Field and municipal fireworks from a few different parks in the area.)
My childhood team was definitely the Tigers, but having lived here in Denver for nearly a quarter of a century, my primary loyalties are with the Rockies now. But I still keep tabs on the Tigers as that is one of the primary things my father and I have in common and can talk about endlessly. Also, my maternal grandfather, who in many ways I take after (older folks back in his small farming community in Michigan often tell me I look just like him), was a lifelong Cubs fan. And in his absence my mother now carries that torch. Though the longer I am a Rockies fan the less I can pull for the Cubs.
P.S. Oh, and Kearney. I've never spent any time there really but of course I have passed through there a few times on my way back and forth from Denver to Michigan. Though these days I take the U.S. Highway 36 route so don't touch Nebraska at all. (Just a whole 'lotta Kansas. Oh my.) But it seems like a nice town.