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yeah, i've turned our air filter up a notch for the white noise so ms. juliebeans doesn't freak out. my spouse is a firefighter and i'm sure he's had one helluva day. i must admit though, i did enjoy having the day off - it's been kinda nice.

I'm not so into the 4th, but this two work days, day off, two work days, weekend schedule is something I could get used to!

I like the big fireworks displays that the professionals do but when it comes to individual houses doing it, I hate it. Some cork is lighting them off in my neighborhood and not only is it annoying but I'm afraid it's going to set something on fire. We're surrounded by trees and their fireworks are noisy as hell.

After I learned how bad fireworks are for the environment a couple of years ago, the 4th has bummed me out. Plus, I get sick of people running around bragging that this is the "greatest country in the world."

So my neighbors are shooting off a ton of huge, illegal fireworks, that appear to be flying right over my house, which is basically made of 200 year old kindling, and is right next to a very large, very tall, very flammable tree. My dog is doing ok because it's been so hot out that our window ACs are running hard and covering the noises, but I'm still miffed. And this happens every year, and as far as I can tell the cops just don't care, because in previous years I've called and complained, and nothing changes. I told my husband if the house catches fire he's to call the fire department while I go assault the neighbors.

I'm playing movies louder than I usually would and running the fans, but my nervous dog is still not happy. Of course when he's anxious he has to poop so outside we go, only to have a loud asparagus boom right next door. He attempted to run for the hills and nearly wrenched my arm off.

It's nearly 11:30 p.m. here and I'm so over it. If they don't shut up soon I'm tempted to blast some truly objectionable (to them) music in the direction of their house. They play loud country on the weekends so I'm thinking that death metal should get my point across.

I just figured out that annoying booming was thunder and not fireworks.

And now, children, enjoy the annual recitation of Uncle FootFace's Fourth of July poem:

In the time of the White Wig
And the long-limbed gavotte
All good men gave three cheers for God and land.

Now we get a holiday of monsters
Feasting on black powder.
Uncle Sam has five trigger fingers on each hand.

Bunkers pimple the unincorporated zones
And cook up new treachery in war's battle with love.
Nothing seduces like a fuse.

A chemistry of catastrophe:
Blue copper burst, sodium flame,
The Devil made strontium red.

Uppercuts and bully blows
Lobbed against the punch-drunk air.
The sky is doubled-up and bent.

This kind of screw-the-sun hi jinx
Burned the wings of men in myth
And got them turned to stone.

After a day of hoarded thunder
The dogs are convicts
The cats, all fugitives.

Yes. Me too! Although I have been confusing today for Saturday all day long.

I'm ready for bed now, so the fireworks can stop any time, please...

Got-damn, but people in my neighborhood are forkin loud patriotic.

I had tater tots with cheese sauce. I feel all American patriotic. happy Fourth!

My in-laws dogs are at our house. Our dog is completely and utterly uninterested in loud noises. Their dogs however...one hid under the futon in the guest room and the other dog kept wanting to go out so he could run around and bark at the fireworks in our backyard, so we made him come inside for good. Fireworks, including sparklers are illegal in our county, but I couldn't figure out where they are coming from. We don't have neighbors on either side of our house right now.

The cats are just rolling around on the floor--I don't even know what that means. Our dog is just staring at the other dogs with what I think is amusement.

I did enjoy my grilled food, though.

So none of the dogs were bothered by the downtown fireworks, which we can hear but are still like, 10 blocks away. No one lit anything in our neighborhood except for a block over, and they only did 5-6 things around 9 and quit. Then as i'm thinking about going to bed, I hear 'BOOM BOOM BOOM' right behind our house. I open the curtain next to my desk and see a large group of dudes setting off big fireworks (you need a permit here for anything bigger than a sparkler). I left the curtain open so I could make sure they didn't set a tree on fire, and they must've had over $100 worth of fireworks, it was all shoot out of a tube, explode above the houses stuff.

Sparklers are fun and you can take pictures of people writing with them and it looks pretty cool.

People in my neighborhood set off fireworks until 6:00 A.M. this morning. Really. And my guess is that they will be at it again tonight.

I hate the 4th. With a passion

The fourth of July is the worst night to have a migraine. If you were wondering.

My next door neighbors threw a massive party and had live music... Live music with all the amps and the works. And the stage was outdoors right by my bedroom. Haha, it was so loud in my house, I mean, loud like you had to shout to talk to the person beside you loud. But noise must not affect me that much because I totally feel asleep at 11, and my boyfriend says they didn't stop until about 2-2:30. He's not as good at tuning out noise apparently. Ginny was not amused.

This was the first 4th that fireworks are legal in my state. Not that that would stop people from doing it in the past, but now it's possible for any idiot to walk into a shop and buy all that crepe to blow off their fingers and other bits. We live next to a lake, so people were shooting them off all day, and the booms rattled my house almost every time. My child (and therefore, me as well) got no sleep yesterday. I'm a very pleasant person to be around today.

(The 4th ties with New Years as my most hated holidays.)

It is now July 6th (midnight thirty, technically) and people are STILL setting off fireworks! Three of my four dogs won't even eat because they're so scared. I want to start face punching! FACE PUNCHING!!

Let my babies eat!

My kitties rode out an F5 tornado last May so they're now suuuuper skittish about loud noises. So, of course, my crasshole neighbors were and still are setting off fireworks that sound like a pipe bomb- they seriously emit a shockwave type sound it's horrible!

My three year old also rode out the same tornado and is also not a fan of loud noises. The fact that said crassholes' fireworks make her jump and shake makes me want to scratch their eyes out!

So my friends and I were having a nice time on my patio last night and fireworks! Again! Really people?! Both our dogs tried to climb up in our lap then on our heads/shoulders, which was kind of funny considering her dog is about 40 pounds.

All this time I thought complaint was your last name!

Every night since the fourth has had fireworks here.

San Diego's fireworks were a dud - they let off the first round in one big heap, then decided not to let off any more. As I was at a friend's party trying to console the dogs, forks given: 0.

Ugh, the neighbors or some forkers were setting off fireworks last night, scared the shiitake out of my cat and she scratched me to hell. It was fireworks or someone was shooting a gun, I'm not sure which now that I think about it... Either way, it was annoying because it was so LOUD.