Central Oregon on a holiday weekend is no place to be out on the streets. It'll take me at least 15 min. to get out onto the highway when I leave. The good news is that they just finished a bypass around my hometown and it should confuse enough of the tourists that they'll just keep heading south. I'll tell 'em Mikeyy's got a yard and baggie just waiting for them and they'll be SoCal bound.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."

I have a lot of friends in Oregon. Mostly around Medford. And a friend in Grants Pass. He's a postman. And I have spent some time there myself. I have a bunch of Jock cousins up there. Wrestlers. In fact one of my cousins is like 3 time state champion.

That and about $5 will get you a coffee at Starbucks. We have two sayings about Oregon. The first. Its the state where people move to to get divorced. Everyone I know who moved to Oregon has gotten divorced.
And my uncle likes to say about the rogue valley. "You freeze all winter and in the summer a lizard can't live there" He isn't a big fan. Ha Ha. But it seems to get in your blood. Because the people I know wouldn't leave it.

Have a very nice vacation! Stay safe and enjoy.

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Consumption is indeed important in a free economy: particularly the freedom of consumers to buy their goods in unhampered markets. However, key to long-term economic growth is investment (savings), which is the opposite of consumption. Public policies that promote consumption — such as low interest rates — do so at the expense of savings. Less savings means less investments; an economy that does not save or invest will consume all of its resources and eventually end up bankrupt.-David Saied

That sounds neat.
We might go to a traditional breakfast down at the community center in town. Then I hope to see the parade. (This town's so small I could have been in it if I had wanted to-).
We watched fireworks yesterday evening at a local mall parking lot.

We were lucky we didn't have to go back to work till the 5th--that doesn't happen very often!

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Consumption is indeed important in a free economy: particularly the freedom of consumers to buy their goods in unhampered markets. However, key to long-term economic growth is investment (savings), which is the opposite of consumption. Public policies that promote consumption — such as low interest rates — do so at the expense of savings. Less savings means less investments; an economy that does not save or invest will consume all of its resources and eventually end up bankrupt.-David Saied