Happy Fourth

It is an odd fourth of July.  Colorado has banned fireworks, not an unusual event, except for the fact this Spring, while not the wettest we’ve had, has been wet enough that I mowed some mushrooms in my lawn yesterday.

More disturbing is the fact that this is the first year I haven’t heard “practice illegal” fireworks going off.  Then again son says he heard them a week ago, so it could be my hearing which is increasingly bad.

But here and across the nation, a lot of gatherings, parades and oth...