We stayed home as usual.
We don't always stay up till 12, but we weren't sleepy, so we watched movies.
I'm in Red Neck country, so the booming starts at 9 or 10, and continues till after 12. Fireworks, deer rifles, pistols, shotguns.

Some fireworks sound like 81mm mortars.
The dogs get terrified.
The idiots shooting guns worry me the most.
10-12 years ago, I think it was after Cinco de Mayo, I walked out to get in the truck one morning. The sun glinted off something shiny in the driveway about 10 feet beyond the truck. Walked over and found a 30 cal rifle bullet, 150-180 gr,
standing up on its deformed nose! It had come straight down and remained standing. Probably a 170 gr flat nose Treinta-Treinta back when the Hispanic population was higher around here.



I kept it for years but have no clue where it is now.