2 More Months Before Fall Decorations Go Up!

[MacPhantom]

Mac I'm talking about inside decorations, and not Halloween stuff. Also I would like the 4th a lot better if fireworks were legal here, but they're not.

Oh oh ooohhhh..... I see. I spend so much time on the yard, I don't really put up anything inside. I should dig some of the old 2-D decos out of the basement this year.

[iHaunt]

The point of fireworks, that's illegal here in Virginia. The first time you start it, the police will come to you and give you a warning. The next time if you do it again, the police will give you a citation and you have to pay the fine. I believe it would be about $75.00 fine, that's what my next door neighbor did it a few years ago.

Well, lucky me and my cousin because we didn't get caught! When we saw the police coming down the street, and we fled.

[Pumpkin_Man]

In Illinois, some fireworks are illegal and others are legal. Firecrackers and Bottlerockest are illegal, but again, the local yocals don't really give a rip, and the State troopers, though they will cite you for anything blatent, don't really care either. They see the fireworks laws for what they really are. A "Horses Rear End" law.

Mike

[Morticia]

Hey Mike you and me both, next April is the big 5-0 for me too.

[MacPhantom]

I can understand fireworks laws in residential neighborhoods, especially when it's been as dry and rainless as it has been here for the last month. I kinda don't want my neighbors getting drunk and burning my house down with a bunch of explosives just because they can't be arsed to go watch the local town display.

[angel222]

wow two more months until fall goes up. time flys by. im looking foward to halloween and christmas. awww i just love looking at that christmas tree.

[Andybev01]

wow two more months until fall goes up. time flys by. im looking foward to halloween and christmas. awww i just love looking at that christmas tree.

That was my tree 2 years ago. My 'mates were in Peru that season getting all culture-ized, so instead of a big tree I got a 'Charlie Brown' and all it took was 1 box of misc decorations. I have to admit that it was one of my favorite Christmas trees of all time.

[Pumpkin_Man]

That's great, Moricia. You and I will be officialy into the "Half Century" club. Planning anything SPOOKtacular for you 50th?

Mike

[Morticia]

Hadn't even thought about it really. (don't want to) LOL!

[Pumpkin_Man]

I can relate to that. Birthdays at our age are not the joyous "Christmasses in miniature" that they were when we were little, but I feel that 50 years at anything, even just living, is an accomplishment worthy of celebration.

The year I was born, (1960) gas was around 30 cents a gallen, most people still had black & white counsel tvs, JFK was elected president, and the unemployment rate was at 3% at the highest. Of course, I greq up in the 70s, but I do have a lot of fond memories of tv shows like "Dark Shadows," "Creature Features," "Hawaii 50" and others. I remember we got our very first color tv in the spring of 1970, about two or three months before my dad bought his 1970 Mercury Monterey, and we drove that Merc down to Florida that Summer for swimming in the gulf. That was the year of my 10th Birthday, and I got my very first camera as a gift.

Life has so drasticly changed in the last half century, and we were there to see it. We were whitnesses to Watergate, the Iran crises, countless recessions. We got to cruise high school to the sound of Disco, and then we wlked the halls of our colleges with a Sony Walkman on our ears.

50 years is a long time. Half a century. A lot of history when you look at it from that perspective.

Mike

[Samhain]

Just a few more weeks until the decorations show up.

[Andybev01]

I'm practically beside myself with anticipation .

I will enjoy the fireworks tomorrow night, and when I get home I'm going to watch a few Munsters episodes and get up early on Monday and sort through the stuff I've bought so far this year.

[Morticia]

Yeah you know...when you remember when your family got their first color tv you KNOW you're getting old! LOL! Oh and incidentally, I do remember LOL! Couldn't wait to get up early on Saturday morning and watch Bugs Bunny on it! Hee hee!

[MacPhantom]

I was part of the Garfield and Friends on Saturday morning generation. I did used to own a Walkman cassette player, though.

I've been eying some boards down in the basement lately. I'm thinking of getting out the jigsaw and making a few new tombstones......

[Pumpkin_Man]

I very vividly remember the first time I watched "Garfield Goose & Friends," and "Dark Shadows" for the first time on our new color tv. I also remember how those Saturday Morning Cartoons really came alive in color. I also remember watching "Sea Hunt" when I was about 5 years old, on a old wooden counsel BLACK & WHITE tv.

Mike