After our Friday afternoon party, WELL after because at this time of year, it doesn’t even begin to get dark until something like 10:00 PM, the Bay Mills Indian Community fireworks started up. I headed down to the beach and after many many many bloopers, I managed to get this pic. I was using optical zoom on my iPhone and it was also doing some sort of night mode thing that I don’t totally understand.

I have never been bothered by the sound of fireworks, at least not that I can remember. I empathize with people who are and aminals, who don’t understand what the noise is all about. Years and years ago when we were up here at the moomincabin on 4th of July, we used to take our kids into town for the Sault Ste. Siberia fireworks. One year I remember holding my niece at Brady Park while she stuck her fingers in her ears. She was pretty freaked out about the noise but she also had a big smile on her face. My own urchins were tumbling up and down the hill at Brady Park oblivious to the noise. I tumbled on that hill as a kid even up into my teenage years. It is closed to the public these days because there is a Native American cemetery atop it.

I’m pretty sure Sault Ste. Siberia still does fireworks but we have long stopped going in to town to see them there because we watch them from across the water at Bay Mills.

Although mostly we would drive safely into town to watch fireworks when I was young, I remember once when I was a VERY young adult and I rode in the back of a pickup truck with a bunch of younger children. No seat belts or anything to secure anyone. We made it there and back safely and the dad of a few of the children (and childhood friend of my dad) thanked me profusely for my help in that expedition. Heck, I was still just a kid myself. Only a few years later that kind of thing would be totally illegal.

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