As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
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Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
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Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
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Oh it's horrible here! We have certain neighbors who I think celebrate
their WHOLE families birthday at their house and use fireworks to do it.
They also play music out in their garage that they believe we ALL want to hear!
NOT!!!!!
My fur babies hate the fireworks and my DD woke up twice because of them.
We ran our sprinklers just in case of a fire because it's illegal to pop them here
but they still do it.
At New Years these same people had a party and the music was outside playing
until 3 a.m. DH finally went over and asked them to turn it down and what was
so funny was that all the people were inside and the music was outside.
I thought our neighbors had bought all the fireworks this year. I'm sorry they left some fireworks for your neighbors to buy.
Our neighbors shot the last firework off at about 2:30 MDT this morning. However, since I woke up in Virginia 4:30 am the morning of the 4th, my body is still on EDT. Robin is not a nice person when she has been up for 24 hours. I actually laughed at about 2:50 when my neighbors shoveled all the firework remains into their trash can and the trash can caught on fire. Thankfully the trash can was in the street so it did no damage to anything else.
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I thought our neighbors had bought all the fireworks this year. I'm sorry they left some fireworks for your neighbors to buy.
Our neighbors shot the last firework off at about 2:30 MDT this morning. However, since I woke up in Virginia 4:30 am the morning of the 4th, my body is still on EDT. Robin is not a nice person when she has been up for 24 hours. I actually laughed at about 2:50 when my neighbors shoveled all the firework remains into their trash can and the trash can caught on fire. Thankfully the trash can was in the street so it did no damage to anything else.
OMG...you all should have lived in Hawaii! 4th of July, Halloween, New Year's...fire crackers from the time if started gettting dark till about 2 am. In neighborhoods no less. Crazy! It sounded like a war-zone.
I was always so angry about it...very rude after a certain time.
Only not Hawaii...4th of July in our neighborhood is crazy....they start (somewhat mildly) the weekend before the 4th....but on the actual holiday? It begins at about 4pm, and increases in both volume and "rate of flow", as it were until it's at a fever pitch by about 10 or 11pm....there is somewhat of an ebb and flow to it, though....there are periods where it gets quiet, and you think, "Okay, they ran out..." but the quiet times are just pauses in the action....I'm thinking that these people all coordinate things like potty breaks! At any rate, this goes on until after 2:30am....
Maybe the Powers that Be should just legalize fireworks, and tax the living daylights out of them....might cut down on the action a bit (but I doubt it....), but it might help cover the expense of keeping extra firefighters and police on the job....
Nothing I like more then neighbors shooting off fire works at 1 in the morning!! Hey idiots.....its now the 5th of July. Notice how the rest of the country is no longer celebrating???
What irks me is that around here they start around the first, when the tents go upand they start selling the things. They stop when they run out, about the 6th. I here boom, boom and crack, crack at all hours, then find all the residue in my yard.
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I too hate personal fireworks which is why we usually leave our neighborhood on the 4th of July. We live on a cul-de-sac and our neighbors go nuts from 10:00 am to midnight. Those are the hours that fireworks are allowed in our city during the 4th. I'm happy to say that the neighbors do always abide by the hours and always clean up their mess before morning. They're also diligent about watching out for our house and our other neighbors' homes who don't participate.
I can't say that the neighbors in the rest of the neighborhood are as considerate though since I kept hearing firecrackers and bottle rockets occasionally throughout the weekend.
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I live in the country so I get not only fireworks but shotgun blasts! They weren't too rowdy this year (they petered out about midnight) but I did hear some fireworks on the 5th. I don't know whether they went and bought some more or if they just found a stash left over from the night before!
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