There are 11 comments.

1. Member
   Arahant

   @Arahant

   11:03 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 4, 2020

   Old Bathos: Lead vehicle is eighty-two years old and still in use and lovingly preserved by the volunteer fire dept.

   And a four-speed in 1940 to boot!

2. Support
   Samuel Block

   @SamuelBlock

   1:42 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 4, 2020

   What a beauty, that little granddaughter! 

3. Inactive
   KirkianWanderer

   @KirkianWanderer

   2:00 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 4, 2020

   Your granddaughter is adorable! I’m ‘celebrating’ all alone in Southeast England. Last year I spent all day walking around London, taking pictures with every statue/house of a US President in the city, but no such luck this year. Travel restrictions are easing, but it’s a cold, rainy day and I’m sick. I miss parades like that, I was going to see the trooping of the color and our town parade this year originally, but neither now.

4. Inactive
   PHCheese

   @PHCheese

   3:06 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 4, 2020

   KirkianWanderer (View Comment):

   Your granddaughter is adorable! I’m ‘celebrating’ all alone in Southeast England. Last year I spent all day walking around London, taking pictures with every statue/house of a US President in the city, but no such luck this year. Travel restrictions are easing, but it’s a cold, rainy day and I’m sick. I miss parades like that, I was going to see the trooping of the color and our town parade this year originally, but neither now.

   Do they have The Fourth of July in England? Old joke.

5. Member
   Arahant

   @Arahant

   3:27 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 4, 2020

   KirkianWanderer (View Comment):
   Last year I spent all day walking around London, taking pictures with every statue/house of a US President in the city, but no such luck this year.

   Are there a lot of them in London? Especially the houses?

6. Member
   The Reticulator

   @TheReticulator

   3:44 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 4, 2020

   Old Bathos: Hours away from any large city, in a county with no riots, with zero Chinese Flu deaths out of a total of five confirmed cases

   I know a county like that though i think the case count jumped from 5 to 6 yesterday. 

7. Contributor
   Susan Quinn

   @SusanQuinn

   4:23 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 4, 2020

   I hope it was a glorious, joyous day for you and your family, Old Bathos!

8. Inactive
   KirkianWanderer

   @KirkianWanderer

   6:04 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 4, 2020

   Arahant (View Comment):

   KirkianWanderer (View Comment):
   Last year I spent all day walking around London, taking pictures with every statue/house of a US President in the city, but no such luck this year.

   Are there a lot of them in London? Especially the houses?

   There are residences for Franklin and Adams, and statues of them as well as Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, Reagan, FDR, and Eisenhower. There may be more but those are the ones I can remember visiting. 

9. Inactive
   KirkianWanderer

   @KirkianWanderer

   6:10 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 4, 2020

   PHCheese (View Comment):

   KirkianWanderer (View Comment):

   Your granddaughter is adorable! I’m ‘celebrating’ all alone in Southeast England. Last year I spent all day walking around London, taking pictures with every statue/house of a US President in the city, but no such luck this year. Travel restrictions are easing, but it’s a cold, rainy day and I’m sick. I miss parades like that, I was going to see the trooping of the color and our town parade this year originally, but neither now.

   Do they have The Fourth of July in England? Old joke.

   Haha, this reminds me, we have a very English professor in our department who specializes mostly in 18th century Europe. Nice enough guy, but he treats me like I’m slow, or won’t catch references to certain parts of European history or books, because I’m American. Makes one want to make him understand the spirit of the Fourth of July just a little bit. 

10. Inactive
    KirkianWanderer

    @KirkianWanderer

    6:13 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 4, 2020

    KirkianWanderer (View Comment):

    PHCheese (View Comment):

    KirkianWanderer (View Comment):

    Your granddaughter is adorable! I’m ‘celebrating’ all alone in Southeast England. Last year I spent all day walking around London, taking pictures with every statue/house of a US President in the city, but no such luck this year. Travel restrictions are easing, but it’s a cold, rainy day and I’m sick. I miss parades like that, I was going to see the trooping of the color and our town parade this year originally, but neither now.

    Do they have The Fourth of July in England? Old joke.

    Haha, this reminds me, we have a very English professor in our department who specializes mostly in 18th century Europe. Nice enough guy, but he treats me like I’m slow, or won’t catch references to certain parts of European history or books, because I’m American. Makes one want to make him understand the spirit of the Fourth of July just a little bit.

    

    Artist’s rendering of what a lot of my friends probably feel like when they know I have to interact with him.

11. Member
    Charlotte

    @Charlotte

    

    9:07 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 4, 2020

    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    Old Bathos: Hours away from any large city, in a county with no riots, with zero Chinese Flu deaths out of a total of five confirmed cases

    I know a county like that though i think the case count jumped from 5 to 6 yesterday.

    CNN headline: County COVID Cases Skyrocket 20% in a Single Day