Happy July

Hi, it is I.....SockMonkey 

BFF and I are ready for a rockin' 4th of July.

To be honest I don't know much about the holiday. Just what some person tells me.

I will not say who...or is it whom? I think it is whom.

Rule. Use this he/him method to decide whether who or whom is correct:
he = who
him = whom

Note: This rule is compromised by an odd infatuation people have with whom—and not for good reasons. At its worst, the use of whom becomes a form of one-upmanship some employ to appear sophisticated. The following is an example of the pseudo-sophisticated whom.

Oh man, all these rules make my head hurt and my head is stuffed with soft cotton like material.

I heard Chuck say he was going to put me and BFF in the backyard the night the guy on the corner started setting off his fireworks because he does it every year. Sets of fireworks that is, not puts us in the backyard.

A bunch of bottle rockets landed out there last year. I hope he has the water hose attached. Not the guy on the corner.....Chuck.

Personally I find home brewed fireworks expensive and dangerous.

Home brewed beer is another story.

So back to the 4th.

There were a lot of people living in this country that were pissed off about paying a tax to England so they dressed up like Native Americans and tossed a bunch of tea off a ship in Boston.

Then England got mad, sent soldiers and the people here fought and went to war with them.

It was called the American Revolutionary War or the War of Independence and it took about seven years and was over in 1776.

Then a whole lot of smart men wrote, signed and sent a letter to the King of England about why we did that and what we wanted. 

I forgot which one but The King was a George.

So for almost 240 years we have been going to picnics on this date.

Ben Franklin invented glasses and flew a kite in an electrical storm which helped Dr. Frankenstein give his monster life.

Ethan Allen was a true patriot and now he builds furniture.

Dolly Madison bakes cake.

And I know Sam Adams was a big influential man during this time and he still makes a great beer.

John Stark led a charge on Bunker Hill?

Him I don't know.

The only Stark I know is on Game of Thrones.