Happy Belated 4th of July.  I spent it at home with my family and grilled out with some neighbors while watching the local fireworks show which was no more than a quarter mile away from my back yard.  During the holiday I saw a lot of patriotism and our nations colors flying which made me think of posting some random stuff on my odd infatuation with our nations flag.

You can ask Andy 1 about my infatuation with our flag.  I often look at flying flags and comment on their state or position.  Random blurts of “wow a new flag” to “Someone needs to fix that flags grommets” can be heard in my observations.  I appreciate what the flag means both to us as Americans and internationally, even if in disgust (we were probably doing something right to get on their bad side!).

Last week, while driving through Andy 1’s neigborhood, I noticed that one of his neighbors was flying a “Don’t Tread on Me” flag to which I dropped my jaw and exclaimed that it was awesome.  Andy mentioned that he had some educated people in his neighborhood and we moved on.

Now, I personally don’t have an American flag hanging outside my house but that is due to 2 reasons:

1.  I am still trying to figure out how to properly light it at night without blinding a bedroom

2.  The wife wants a flag staff that doesn’t look tacky.

In the mean time, read up on our awesome flag and its history HERE

Oh yeah, I still wish i had knocked on the door of Poot’s neighbor that had a flag flying upside down on their porch one day to see if they needed help.  That or call the police on an international sign of distress.

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