The Great Hunter doesn’t really celebrate holidays. I don’t know if it’s just because he’s a man (no offense intended) and he has always relied on someone else to plan or if it just doesn’t matter to him.   If I didn’t plan things, we’d be sitting at home with me in one room and him in another, each of us doing our own thing. It’s unfair to say that he doesn’t plan…he plans…hunting and fishing trips. I hate to have a holiday go by and not celebrate it in some way or another. Holidays are what mark time in our lives. Without them, each day is the same and we just keep getting older.

Back when the boys were younger and even when my older grandchildren were young, I  used to sit on the driveway with the neighbors and watch our kids shoot off fireworks. (You notice I said “I”, that’s because the Great Hunter didn’t participate.) If I was fortunate and someone invited me to watch fireworks somewhere, I would go.

In 2019 the Blues won the Stanley Cup just a couple weeks before the 4th. My favorite memory of this 4th of July was watching my grandchildren light fireworks and dancing and singing along with the Blues’ theme song, “Gloria.”

I was hoping one of my kids (when did that word become synonymous with ‘children’?) would be going to a fireworks show so I could tag along, but they all had other plans. So I decided the Great Hunter and I would go to the theater to see Kevin Kostner’s new movie “Horizon”. We wanted to go in the afternoon, but the show was sold out so we had to wait until evening. That in itself isn’t a problem, but with a three-hour movie, in recliners, for less than spring chickens…lol.

I didn’t need to worry about falling asleep. It took all my concentration just to try and follow the story.  It’s hard to describe the movie, but it felt disjointed with times and places being confusing and several storylines running at the same time. I kept thinking I’d missed something and maybe I did when the characters seemed to be mumbling. Maybe that’s the draw for this being only Chapter One. Maybe you have to see Chapter Two (coming out next month) to figure out how these stories go together.

But as a plus, when we left the movie theater, over the top of the building, we could see the riverfront fireworks. It wasn’t like being close up and personal, but at least it meant that this Fourth of July wasn’t passing me by.