Is anyone else glad that the Fourth of July is over ? Four nights it was noisy and kept my dog and I awake.

Nope, doesn't make a difference for me!

It rained here yesterday, starting in the early evening and into the night. All of the fireworks were cancelled, to be held at a later date. Now, we have MORE nights of noise to look forward to in the near future.

Fourth of July lasted four nights?

Many of us here in Tenino have had enough, including me yes!!!

The Roman candles were blasting and beautiful, but several fires got going...although no buildings destroyed...however a friend in Iowa was almost burned out, and her neighbor's kitty was killed.

...both pets and people were frightened, it was very bad and too much.

Yes! Though for the most part my neighborhood kept it reasonable. There weren't any that I noticed on Friday or Saturday nights. Sunday got loud but that stopped by 10 or so. Last night i was hearing booms before dark. I was not happy about that! I was trying to get the dogs out to potty and exercise before being cooped up for the evening. I finally yelled in the direction of the noise to wait until dark. My dogs were medicated and wrapped in their Thundershirts. Arabella climbed into my lap, (She is nearly 60 lbs.) and then Skully climbed into her "lap". I think I do need to get Skully a ne Thndershirt though. He is wearing Arabella's hand-me-down, and pink really isn't his color.

I hope so! This morning I was awakened at 3:30 a.m., because someone decided to blow some fireworks off. I hope they don't continue tonight. They are illegal in my city, but people still use them.