[rconti]

July 5 is the first day of summer. Every year on the 4th you'd be biting your nails wondering if it was gonna stop raining so you could set off fireworks when it got dark at 10pm.

[hinkley]

I thought the locals were joking about that, but in 18 years I can hardly remember a time when that wasn't true.

Although this year it sure looked like we started early.