Apocalyptic Wholly Week

Here it is the last week of June and it's the lead up to the 4th of July. Which is of course a big deal here in the America. The rest of the world couldn't care less. Most of the thinking world wonders why Americans insist on burning shit down come the 4th. On the 4th there will be barbecues and pigging out contests and gunfire and several mass shootings and fireworks that lead to fires breaking out all over the place. Just about all of those aforementioned fires will be caused by fireworks and the dumb ass people that figure those fireworks are a personal constitutional right. The fireworks are not constitutional or even smart. The Fireworks Retailers Association wants Americans to believe the premise that fireworks are somehow related to the 2nd Amendment. Fireworks are not related to the 2nd Amendment and not even on a wildest stretch imaginable. Americans can be really dense. So, the Apocalyptic Wholly Week lead up to the 4th is a go. The 4th of July is a week from Sunday and that would be tomorrow ergo...it's wholly an unholy week of crazed incendiaries and the glazed madness that comes with the lighting of bottle rockets and sparklers and those really spiffy fountains that shoot columns of fire up in the sky for children and adults to marvel at. There will be the professional fireworks shows which are almost safe BUT and however, damn if the shows aren't worth watching. Don't get me wrong here, I love fireworks and always have. I've never started a fire using fireworks that I'm aware of. This year with the drought and that drought being in very close proximity to cities and towns, well, using personal fireworks is just not a good idea. Stick with the professionals and let them set the fireworks fires so you don't have to invite lawsuits and legal culpability for any fire that results from the use of fireworks. Will people heed the ample warnings being issued by legal authorities wherever drought and the threat of wildfire is imminent? Oh hell no way in hell. People will use those fireworks and set fires and themselves on fire simply on account of it being the 4th of July. Celebrating the 4th requires that normally thinking folk check their brains at the start of Wholly Week and they will for certain, and then let the fun and trips to the burn unit begin. I'm thinking that being burned to death would really and I mean REALLY suck. Damn that would so have to hurt. Oh well, what are you gonna do? Watch those fireworks and watch out for your home and property. Well and your children and pets. My dog really hates fireworks. Well and thunder, gunshots, and thunder WITH gunshots. Okay and now it's on to the machine art. 

draft horses which were a big deal back in the day -

oasis not at midnight -

I wonder whatever happened to Maria Muldaur?