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There is no parade today in GFD. There is no parade all weekend - as far as I can tell, all month. Which is not a huge loss, since our 4th of July parade is never much good. The big parade around here is the County Fair parade, and that's a couple of months off yet.

The fireworks show was Friday. Come on. When you have two days to celebrate the 4th - the 4th and the 5th - why would you celebrate it on the 2nd?

But the worst thing is, the ice cream store is closed. Today and tomorrow. Does that make sense? At all?

No.

The local convenience store, Super John's Market, used to have a sign that said

Super

JOHN'S

Market

which was meant to be read in some old-fashioney oval way as "John's Super Market" but which everybody read, of course, Super John's Market, and the guy who owned it, a guy named John, was called Super John, Super for short. But Super sold the store a couple of years ago and the new guy put up a new sign

SUPER JOHNS MARKET

not so much as an apostrophe, so it's not really Super John's any more although everybody still calls it that and it's still open every day.

So at least I could buy some hot dogs for supper.