Monday in Fourth of July Week

Monday of Fourth of July week: the Fourth is on Saturday, so does the nation take as holiday Friday the Third or Monday the Sixth? 

What makes sense is to take this entire week off, and next week too, which being retired I can do out here on 7H porch. Seeing covid19 rising angrily like some horror film monster to come stumbling back and resume beating up on us, we'll continue keeping distance anyway. 

Many families take summer vacation about now. Here in our Florida Gulf Coast Beaches part of the world, local economy relies heavily on what's come to be called the Hospitality Industry as less raw than Tourist Industry. Motels, condo rentals &c. Tourists crowding our many restaurants. We hear the EMS ambulances a lot. Beach police overwhelmed by traffic on Front Beach Road. Friends and family coming to visit for the long weekend. Fender-benders. Sunburns. Tatoo parlors ready with needles and ink. T-shirt stores screening whatever picture you want. A fatal motorcycle accident. Souvenir shops mobbed with folks looking to buy suntan lotion and a little plaster palm tree with a girl in swimsuit reclining under it, to take home as proof they were here. Showing off, most years, a young man who doesn't know the term "too many" tries unsuccessfully to climb from his 13th floor balcony to the one next door. Stay out of the rip tides. Long wait at Captain Anderson's and Angelo's. Folks ignore the double-red-flags. Bail bond firms have a bonanza. BayPoint condos that I'm looking at from right here booked up solid. Covid19 may or may not reduce all that action. Did I mention that somebody usually gets shot?

Does that sound dismal? It isn't, it's just the Ways of a beach town where everyone has to make a living.