I am in central IN. Our community has postponed the annual fireworks to Labor Day weekend. Although our county has a 'burn' ban, they have not banned personal fireworks. I am guessing just too hard to enforce. It is close to 100 here again today...like walking into a furnace when one steps outside. I have also 'un' invited my 83 year old parents. Too hot for them to be out. We are not doing our usual 4th of July cookout (we have always done one...starting in the afternoon with swimming in our pool followed by a cookout and then culminating with the community fireworks which are shot off just across from our house). We no longer have the above-ground pool and our children are grown with lives/activities of their own. Today I am trying to clean up my sewing room. We will grill some burgers later on but will eat in the house in the air-conditioning. I am really so very sick of the weather we have had this summer. The yard crunches under our feet and crops are suffering.