Private Fireworks are Dangerous... Burn Down Your Own Neighborhood? Not Smart! If you want to see Fireworks, your City has a Fantastic Display with Fire Trucks Standing by.

Remember: Veterans do not like Unexpected Explosions... Dogs do not Like Explosions...

Why Not Behave Smart???

Here's a Photo of the Fireworks in Eureka, CA... Shot off from a Barge Floating in Humboldt Bay... a GREAT place to Watch this is at Woodley Island Marina... Have FUN!

Carson Mansion - Zipper Carnival Ride - Fireworks - Eureka California - Kinetic Sculpture Race - Photographs from California's Rugged North Coast

Freeman Griffin said:

A lot of acceptance of the status quo worldview boils down to a failure of imagination. People literally can't imagine the possibility that reality is as different as it is from what they've been told by their teachers, parents, pundits and politicians. It's actually unfathomable to them, and that is because it's so different. The world we're trained to see by establishment perception managers is as different from the real world as any fictional world is.

HOWEVER: when we do our work of real perception change that world is possible! It isn't easy but it is necessary work we all have to do.

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Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 in Arcata, California. Videos and Still Photographs... Whimsical Art Bicycles That Travel on Roads, Sand and In the Water... JUST FOR FUN!

Water Wheel & Samoa Bridge in Humboldt Bay

Madaket Ferry and the Scaredy Cat

Here's a Video from 2022:

Duane Flatmo Changing Tires on the Dragon

This years best: Pigasus

Pigasus Support Crew

Click on the Pictures to see them Bigger

Link to Video of Star Ship Enterprise:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IquyAQNupWI&feature=youtu.be

Link to Video of the Wild West Wagon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QWIh98dYs0&feature=youtu.be

Link to Video of the Giant Shark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMV6_iVsC90&feature=youtu.be

Link to Video of the Pirate Ship approaching Manila School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP6pCgEw_P8&feature=youtu.be

Videos of the 2022 Race... 

https://www.facebook.com/100019291115058/videos/1679770205715749/

 and

https://www.facebook.com/100003963974581/videos/561275072014241/

In the event of Sunshine, the race is still ON.

What IS this? A Coal Mining Earth Eater?

Bounce Machine...

The Elf Jumps Up and Down to create forward Motion

2001 TMA Monolith

Think Train

Egyptian Goddess

Egyptian Goddess and Mummy on Highway 101 Eureka, CA

Whirled Peas

Clam

June Moxon's Shoe

 and Posing Clowns Holding up 

Invisible Applause Sign

Gumball Machine

Duane Flatmo: The Doomed Buggy

(it Sank Later in Humboldt Bay)

Duane Flatmo: The Doomed Buggy on 

Highway 101 in Eureka, CA

Pigasus... Highway 101

Man with Child as a Passenger Kinetic Sculpture

Mr Bubble entertains the Children.

The fellow has a long rope with a dozen loops attached to sticks that he dunks in a gallon jar of bubble mix...

MAKES GIANT BUBBLES

Photographs from a few years ago... 

It Is Possible to Do All Those Things You Used To Do While Drunk, Sober... Even Rock Concerts... But You Will Need Earplugs if You Fail to Smoke Marijuana.

Once I went to a Rock Concert Without Marijuana and the Guitar Solos Seemed Too Long and Pointless... I'm Sure The Allman Brothers Band Would Have been Better if I was Stoned... But at That Time There was NO Weed Available... Out of Season!

There's a Magic World Outside!

I remember at a Santana Concert outdoors near Yuba City we did not have any Marijuana but... I had the Realization that I could simply DANCE Myself into a Trance... and I Did! --- What was Funny at that Show was Santana Played First and THE WHO Played Later... and all the Mexican American People LEFT after Santana Finished Playing... MISSING the Entire WHO Concert... 

Anyway... a Friend was Wondering IF She should attend an Indoor Concert next week BUT... She was Concerned About Getting COVID-19 or MONKEYPOX and was Planning to wear a Mask the entire Concert... However, She Said that would make it difficult to drink during the Show... Well, I automatically assumed she was talking about drinking Alcohol... but someone Else Pointed out that she wouldn't be able to drink WATER Either... I Had Never Considered That! In Fact, It would be Difficult to Drink Anything while wearing a Mask... So Going to a Concert is OUT!

SO... I realized that I never go to Gatherings of People anymore... Neither Indoors or Outdoors... I Just Don't GO... and In My Life I Loved Large Crowds... I remember 500,000 People in Washington DC on the Fourth of July with the Beach Boys in Concert with Jimmy Page and Joan Jett... That was FUN... Fireworks... and I got stoned on Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Seeds... a Mild form of LSD... I have Stopped Going to AA Meetings... and I Have Dropped out of the Group Sing Along Band at the Folsom Senior Center... We Had Fun There... Singing all those "Old Timey" Songs... but They Closed the Folsom Senior Center Entirely for a Year and I Just Never Went Back after it Reopened...

To get back to the Main Part of the Story... While there has been a Tradition of Drinking Alcohol and Then Having Sex... I joined Alcoholics Anonymous... and The Rest of This story is CENSORED... It's Nunya Beezwax! 

One Thing I DID Notice was that Our Club Seemed Like a Swinging Singles Meeting... and I DID Marry a Member... and We Stayed Married for 15 Years and We are Still Friends... but we live in different cities... 

 

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4th of July Tip: Many Veterans Hate Surprise Firecrackers. They Think That The Enemy is Shooting at Them. SO... If You are at a Party With Veterans... Don't Blow Things UP!

and DOGS Don't Like Firecrackers Either... 

Remembering Veterans:

Vietnam Veterans - "The Wall That Heals"
a Traveling Wall for People That Can't
Travel to Washington DC

in Loleta, California... at the Bear River Casino...

I heard a flock of Motorcycles Drive by my house on Highway 101, then followed them to the exhibit.

The Bikers were escorting this Traveling Wall That Heals all around the country... 

http://www.vvmf.org/twth

The Wall That Heals: Mobile Exhibit. On Veterans Day 1996, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) unveiled a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., designed to travel to communities throughout the United States.

This would be a Great Summer to Be SMART About Fire... and NOT Burn Down the Forest... What if We Didn't Blow Up a Lot of Stuff on the Fourth of July? and NO Campfires When Camping!

Many Veterans Hate Surprise Firecrackers Because They Think People are Shooting at them... Bad Memories...

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

I Remember that in Columbia, Maryland... People were Shooting Rockets into the Air and They would Explode... Right in the Symphony Woods Parking Lot... and Then the Town Decided that The Grateful Dead Should NEVER Play Merriweather Post Pavilion Again BECAUSE... Deadheads were a Fire Hazard... after all, You can buy an amazing array of Explosives "South of the Border" in South Carolina... and MANY People Would Drive There, Load Up and Sell the Rockets in The North... a Simple and Lucrative Business... Perfect for an Entrepreneur...

Pre-Rolled Cigarette Butts Carelessly Thrown on the Ground Could Start a Forest Fire... a Better Plan is Smoking "American Spirit" Roll Your Own Tobacco and UNROLLING The Last quarter of The Cigarette and Putting the Unburnt Tobacco Back in the Bag to be rolled again later... American Spirit Does Not Have The Additive Chemical That Makes a Pre-Rolled Cigarette Keep on Burning Even when a Person is NOT ACUALLY Smoking it... As a Person that Has Smoked Roll Your Own Cigarettes for Forty Years... I Know that RYO Cigarettes Simply Stop Burning if a Person Sets the RYO Cigarette down in an Ashtray and Ignores it... a PRE-Rolled Will Keep on Burning and Five Minutes Later all that will be left is Ash...  They Add That Chemical to Make People Buy More Cigarettes... 

Massive Anti-Trump Protest on July 4th in Washington DC. Trump is Planning a Campaign Rally at the Lincoln Memorial with A Foaming at the Mouth Hate Filled Rant.

NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED... THE NEXT EVENT IS YET TO BE ANNOUNCED... PLEASE CONTACT ME WITH AN INVITATION AND I'LL POST A LINK HERE! gregvan@yahoo.com


A perfect time for a Half a Million people to surround Trump and Scream... 

This seems like a perfect opportunity for Civil Disobedience... 
A Patriot Could Bring a Personal Alarm and when Trump Speaks, pull the cord and make a 130 dB Noise! 

DO NOT BRING Firecrackers, M-80s or Cherry bombs to Trump's Speech on July 4th... The Secret Service will arrest you... Massive explosions sound too much like gunfire... DO NOT BRING THEM TO THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL... Bring Personal Alarms...

The Traditional Fireworks will be moved over to Potomac Park...  far away from the Mall... So, we will just have to bring our own Fireworks... Especially the Rockets that Fly Up into the Air and Explode! A person can buy all varieties of explosives at South of the Border in South Carolina... Often people just drive south and bring back many varieties of things that go BOOM! M-80 Firecrackers would drive the Secret Service INSANE! and Trump would Duck and Cover... 

COST TO TAXPAYERS $2.5 MILLION DOLLARS

Headline: Trump Hijacks Washington, DC July 4th Celebrations To Put Himself at the Center... 

President Donald Trump has taken over the organizational plans for the nation’s annual July 4th celebrations in Washington, DC, according to the Washington Post. He has moved the fireworks display from the Mall, where it has been held for more than 50 years, to a spot closer to the Potomac River. He has also inserted himself into the program, promising to address the nation from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, turning the usual non-partisan celebration of the nation’s independence into what will amount to a campaign rally. Officials did not have a price tag on the changes, but the Post reported that the firework display on the Mall has been orchestrated for more than half a century.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hijacks-washington-dc-july-4th-celebrations-to-put-himself-at-the-center 

A better Idea... Instead of bringing Firecrackers to DISRUPT Trump's July Fourth Celebration... Bring a Personal Alarm! and make a 130dB Screaming Noise! You can tell the Police "Hey, I Felt Threatened... That's Why I Pulled the Alarm..." and It's TRUE... Trump's Speeches ARE THREATENING!

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DO NOT bring FIRECRACKERS to Trump's 4th of July "Mad Dog - Foaming at the Mouth" Speech at the Lincoln Memorial...

DO NOT GO to South Carolina and Buy M-80s,
Bottle Rockets or Cherry Bombs...

Don't Do It or The Secret Service WILL ARREST YOU and then Throw You into the Briar Patch! On Highway 95 JUST SOUTH OF THE BORDER... https://fireworkssupermarket.com/dillon-sc/

Anyone who�s sat outside on an early July afternoon knows the ear-popping sound of a lit string of firecrackers hitting the pavement. 
Ah the sweet sound of celebration...
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