Morning, all. I also went to bed early. I feel funny celebrating anything right now, with all that's going on in the world.
My neighbors were shooting off fireworks at about 9:00. I never say anything to them about it, even though it's illegal here, but I wish they would cut it out. Makes my horses run, not to mention how brown and dry the grass is right now. It also makes their horses run like crazy but since they have mostly boarded horses, I doubt they care.
I'm with you... It's especially surprising horse people would be lighting them off. I was never ~really~ into fireworks before I had horses... but with horses now, and with Gidget who is just hysterical about them, I really loathe them. Fireworks are sortof illegal here, you have to buy the big ones on indian reservations... but there is very little, if any enforcement.