{"id":108567,"date":"2024-07-04T21:50:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=108567"},"modified":"2024-07-26T22:15:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T02:15:48","slug":"thursday-night-4th-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2024\/07\/04\/thursday-night-4th-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – 4th of July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today is the 4th of July.. it’s sometimes can be a bitter sweet day for us.. We have such great memories of doing the parade with the kids, fireqworks.. picnics.. now it can feel a little empty.. 
Today turned out to be mostly sweet. It got off to a very sweet start.,. Diane made us red,  white and blue frozen smoothy bowls using fruti from the back yard. That put us in the 4th spirit <\/p>\n

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We then rode our bikes to Jean and Grys.. thats the place we always meet to watch to parade. Its a good time to catch up with some old friends.. By now, the kids we knew are all grown up with kids of their own. Fun to see<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The parade was cute as always.. fire trucks, ambulances, folks on horses, farm equipment and a coupl of floats. Soem floats through candy.. one even through cheese !<\/p>\n

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My favorite float was our freind Austin.. dressed as rapunzel.. driving his high lift.. Super funny.. .. glad he ducked under the bridge !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our friend Marshall always stilt walks at the end of the parade. He always carries a sign.. and we always have to look up what it means <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We looked it up the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928<\/a> .   The Core concept of the pact was to make war illegal.  It was intended to stop the kind of horrible bloodshed that had just occurred in the first world warThe pact was signed by many nations..  Well\u2026 I guess that didn’t work.\u2026 Maybe it’s time to go back to that pact !

we pent the next hour mingling with friends\u2026 Some whom we see every week and some we haven’t seen since last Fourth of July. It was really fun and is yet another reminder of why I love our town so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We got to meet soem new babies ..!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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t was getting hot.. so we rode our bikes home and hopped in the  pool.; we figure we’re on our own micro triathlon\u2026 A bike ride, a swim\u2026 And later on a hike

The hike idea we had was around fireworks. We were debating whether to go to the Richmond fireworks, but we knew they were fireworks and other towns\u2026 Diane had the great idea why don’t we watch them all. So at sunset, we hiked up camels hump\u2026 It was a hot climb, but by the time we got to the top, it was freezing. From there we were able to see, everybody’s fireworks from Morrisville, Stowe, Hinesburg, Sherlock, Shelburn, South Burlington, Dan Moore, New York, and\u2026 At the very end\u2026 The Richmond fireworks. It was such a great experience!\u2026 Walking down in the dark was hot and the moths really loved our head lamps.<\/p>\n

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Finally it started getting dark. .. and we started to see fireworks.. they started slowly, mostly small hom e shoes, then they strarted popping up all over, Morerisville, Stowe, Charlotte, Shelbourne, South Burlington, Danamorea New york,… and last of all Richmond..so fun watching them all.. and it was FREEZING !!!<\/p>\n

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Sometimes you could see fireworks from several differnt towns in one area !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Richmonds fireworks were the last to go.. and the closest.. we could even hear them.. though much delayed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then it was time to hike down.. though it had been freezing at the top.. we were hot again as soon as we left the top of the mountain.. The walk down was fun.. though the months really liked our headlamps !

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Really great day
Happy 4th everyone !


nite all., nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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