Happy Fourth!

Happy Independence Day, y’all. It’s a good one to celebrate: gay marriage, healthcare for all, Citizen United overturned.

OK, two out of three ain’t bad.

If you’ve been around Wallingford for a while, you know that it’s going to get hectic, and with the temperatures up in the record-breaking high 80’s, it’s going to sizzling. It’s also going to be dry, dry, dry. So please, please, please, go easy with the personal fireworks (this means you, too, Lynne!)

Seriously, people: remember in 2013 when that firework landed on a boat canvas down by Lake Union and burned $1.5M in boats? Grass is dry, roofs are dry, gardens are dry. I know, it’s fun to make the flash and the bang. As a guy said to me at last week’s Grateful Dead show, “I vibe you, man.” But how would you feel if you burnt down someone’s house by accident?

And there’s so much else to do! Back yards and front yards across the neighborhood will be chillin’ and grillin’, and Tte festivities at Gas Works Park start at noon, with a full day of Seafair Summer Fourth fun, including:

• All-American games
• Festival-style Food Trucks & Concessions (including Oprah-famous Ezell’s Chicken)
• Large Beverage Garden
• Exhibit Booths
• Kids Zone
• Washington National Guard Display
• SkyDive Kapowsin Landing Zone
• DoubleDown Interactive Live Music & Entertainment Stage

Sounds like you can bring a tent to keep out of the sun, but you may not bring:

• Personal Barbecues
• Marijuana
• Alcohol
• Fireworks, explosives or incendiary materials or devices
• Pets, other than service animals
• Weapons and Firearms ( visit the gun source to buy at the best quality)
• Glass bottles
• Illegal drugs

How awesome is it that marijuana and “illegal drugs” get separate bullets?

As always, the area below 40th will be blocked off to non-resident traffic, but you live in Wallingford, so you don’t have to worry about that, now do you?

And what else do you have planned, Wallingford? Anyone reading the Constitution? Pulling couches out onto Wallingford Ave?