Wow, I can't believe it has been so many days since I have had a new blog entry. I havn't even been online these past few days, which is very unusual for me. I guess I've just been so busy with my new job and working a few more days at the kennel because this was the busy weekend for the kennel with the Fourth of July and all.

Speaking of the Fourth of July, I was thinking today of how many people truly celebrate the Independence Day for the real reason it is a holiday to begin with. I was coming back from the kennel tonight after checking on all the dogs and letting them all go outside for the last time tonight, when I came upon lots of traffic coming from a fireworks display. There were a lot of people there, but how many truly celebrate the Fourth of July for its original purpose. I think many people in America nowdays use it as another excuse to party and to drink. Don't get me wrong, I see nothing wrong with fireworks or having a celebration on the Fourth of July, I just think some people go about it the wrong way and celebrate the fourth for the wrong reasons. I can say that none of us alive today in the US can really understand what it must have been like back around the time of the Revolutionary War. Our founding fathers were basically rebels themselves and most of us probably don't truly understand the sacrifices that the early American people had to make during these times. It's one thing to read about these events, but actually living them are the only way that one can truly appreciate what living during the Revolutionary War or even the Civil War was like.

In the US, most of us live a life that is really fairly easy and we live comfortably. I know that there are still many hard things that many of us face, but when you consider how many people lived even a century ago, things have come a long way. Some of the things that we complain about now would probably seem very trivial to these people in the past and probably seem trivial now to people living in parts of the world where things are not quite as good. I know things are not perfect, but as American we live a much easier life than many people around the world. I think on Independence Day we need to remember those who sacrificed and lived through all the hardships, and all of those who still sacrifice there time and their lives, so that we all can live a better life.

Well, that's what's going through my wacky brain. Stay tuned for more ramblings . . .