And I'm back with another episode of Cutting the Distance Podcast. I'm Dirk Durham and I'm running solo today and I'm just wondering did everyone have a really great 4th of July?

My wife and I and the dogs and my son and his wife,

we spent some quality time out in the great outdoors.

I checked a lot of game cameras, I hiked all over, rode dirt bikes.

It was great.

It was really fun.

We did cut the trip short.

We came home on July 4th, the day.

And we live in the

got back to town probably 10 o'clock at night so it's just getting pretty dark and

we live in the treasure valley here the Boise Idaho area if you don't know where the

treasure valley is and Idaho area if you don't know where the Traitor Valley is.

And as we're coming into town and driving to our house,

it was crazy how many people were letting off fireworks.

It was probably the most money I've ever seen people spend on fireworks. And I don't know if this is normal for every year down here, because we're normally in the mountains on the 4th of July.

A Black Lab jocco, he's not a big fan of him. He gets pretty scared of him.

But we're always in the mountains camping and doing our due diligence for summer elk scouting and stuff.

But anyway, there was, man, there was some big, impressive displays of fireworks all over town.

It didn't matter where you were out in the valley.

They're just huge fireworks going off everywhere.

In fact, it looked like the whole town was on fire burning as far as much as how much smoke was in the air.

It was crazy. It was just the smoke was everywhere driving down the freeway. It was just a fog. In fact, you can even smell it. You can just smell that that that that

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