Another Fourth of July celebration has come and gone. How was yours?
I worked at the hotel. Lewes, where I work, was packed with Fourth of July revelers. Luckily I found a parking spot at the hotel. I hate to go in Lewes on holidays because of the traffic, crowds and lack of parking space. I got lucky yesterday because someone in housekeeping had probably just left thus leaving a vacant parking space.
Of course the hotel was full which is good for business and job security. I got lucky again, there were no difficult guests, all the air conditioners worked and no stopped up toilets. I did have one call for a smoke alarm that went off. The lady in the room overdid it with hair spray which will set off a smoke alarm. I always have a problem removing smoke alarms but I managed.
This year Lewes had their very own fireworks on the Lewes beach. Of course I didn't go. I've never been impressed with fireworks. I remember the first time I saw fireworks when I was about twelve years old. It was at Crystal Beach in Maryland. My neighbors on Washington Avenue in Downingtown invited me along with their family (I think they were trying to fix me up with their daughter, who was actually my first date). I heard a lot about fireworks so I was expecting a big deal. After watching them I thought like the old Peggy Lee song "Is That All There Is?" To me fireworks are loud and boring. But hey, that's me, I get excited about gardening.
The weather yesterday was great for the visitors to Lewes for the Fourth. Sunny, hot and muggy; what summertime is all about in Slower Lower.
The only problem I had was when I left work at 11:20 pm. I had trouble getting out on Route One, there was a steady stream of traffic exiting Rehoboth Beach, which is three miles south of Lewes. Man oh man, those headlights just kept coming. Why all that traffic? Rehoboth also had its own fireworks display.
One thing I was very thankful yesterday was no one and I mean NO ONE in my neighborhood set off those noisy string firecrackers. It seems that most of my life there has always been someone wherever I lived who thought that was fun to set off those noisy firecrackers. As I said before, I never "got" the whole firecrackers thing, even when I was a kid. Ah, peace and quiet.
The last time we had those firecrackers go off in our neighborhood here they so scared a little Benji type dog who was visiting with his owners. He ran out on Route One and got run over. There haven't been any firecrackers in our neighborhood since, thank God. Not only do those firecrackers annoy people, they scare little dogs to death. I saw a photo of some people who volunteered at an animal shelter to help sooth the dogs during the firecracker nonsense.
Good people, gives me renewed faith in our country at this time of great divisiveness.