The 4th of July is one of my least favorite holidays. Why-I get tired of fireworks which seem to start earlier in June and extend further in July. The three-day weekend really led to perpetual evening neighborhood fireworks displays. The ones that makes me the most nervous are the bottle rockets when they come close to my house. One time one of my neighbors in Casper started a fire in a dry field near our house. He ran out with a hose and got it out before the fire engines arrived. This morning I went out to work in the back yard and wound up cleaning the remains of bottle rockets and their ilk. Luckily we had rain right around the weekend. Remembering last year's grass fire in the field at the end of our block, I get a little nervous. I enjoy the fourth and what it stands for but I don't think that includes shooting fireworks until nearly midnight and aiming some of them at other's houses. Am I an old grouch or what?