4th

[Igor Loving]

Fourth of July

There was this great parade down US 84 with the sherrif and two DPS cars and 
a bunch of kids and the high school summer band.

The square was filled with booths selling junk and BBQ.

I think that flags are really cool. We have all those state falgs of which 
only one is really cool the Texas one which looks  like the Chile one.

At Easter you have a bunny rabbit flag.
At Halloween a pumpkin flag.
At Christmas a Santa flag.
At Guy Fawkes a Fawke flag.
And there are Uiniversity of Texas flags, LSU flags, Texas Tech flags. In 
Fredericksburg yesterday I saw a store that sells all manner of flags. 
Christian flags and schools flags and of course no Arab flags or Muslim 
flags.

One of my favorite flags is the Zimbawhe flag with an AK 47 on it. And the 
French flag is neat. Flags really do tell you something about the person who 
is flying it.

Last night my pals in Leakey and I must have shot off $600 or more woth of 
fireworks and it was really fun. The excuse was the flag.

There were rednecks, latinos and couple of African Americans an Apache and 
five his kids about twenty other kids blowing stuff up into the wee hours of 
the night.

We were scaring the bee jeezus out of the dogs and cats but creating another 
generation of explosive lovers to go along with ours. Fireworks, flags and 
martial music. The Jambox and highest volume playing American marches while 
everyone ate BBQ and drank copious amounts of beer, no wine allowed. Lots 
and lots of grease and hand cranked ice cream. It was Oh so Republican and 
Oh so American.

We had long conversations about Cherry Bombs and M-80's and Baby Giants and 
how todays kids are so protected for the fun we had. AS we t alked the were 
shooting screamers, some sort of large bottle rockets at each other. The 
adults of course would yell, "Be careful,now." "Aim over their heads."

The big air burst thingies would occasionally blow up on the ground and 
cause gales of cheering and laughter and more, "Be careful now."

Damn the FOURTH of JULY is so much fun.  You just ingnore the politica and 
get drunk and blow things up.

There may be a hangover though.


Charlie Loving