It is Friday!
Tomorrow is Saturday!
It is another summer weekend of 2026, and let's all take advantage of this and have a good weekend!
And this weekend includes, on Saturday, July 4, our nation's birthday!
This year's Independence Day is going to be somewhat different from other July 4 holidays because we will be celebrating our country's 250th anniversary--
Its 250th anniversary as the greatest country in the world.
Funny, back in 1976, when we celebrated our 200th anniversary, I seem to think that there were simply more things happening to honor our country on that day than there will be on the upcoming July 4.
Maybe that has to do with the fact that that was the 200th anniversary--
The Bicentennial.
This is only the 250th anniversary--
The Semiquincentennial, also called the Bisesquicentennial, the Sestercentennial, or the Quarter Millennium.
Too many names, not enough focus on what is happening during the celebration.
There will be baseball games, barbecues, parades, and lots of other events, but I think there was much more hoopla surrounding the 200th anniversary.
Maybe I feel that way because I was younger when we had the Bicentennial--19 years of age-- and maybe my eyes were more wide open then than now.
I have seen some mentions of the upcoming 250th, but a lot of them are on snacks and soda packaging, sporting American flags and bald eagles and a lot of other symbols of our culture.
But nothing to the extent of the 200th anniversary.
Whatever the case, there should be plenty going on during the 250th celebration, and while I most likely won't be around for the 300th celebration--the Tricentennial--this is going to be a day that is significant for myself and all Baby Boomers.
Me, I will most probably have a barbecue for myself and my family.
My son has to work, so he will make some money on this special day, but it will force my wife and I to stay close to home on the holiday.
That is OK with me.
July 4th has almost always signified not only our country's birthday, but also one of the major family days of the year, so we will be together in a funny sort of way.
And then on Monday, July 6, I have to again go to the doctor after a respite of a few weeks.
Nothing to worry about, but another doctor's visit keeps me shivering in my own skin, as I just hope that nothing else--or nothing new--is found to be ailing me.
I have had enough of that, but if you gotta go, you gotta go.
So tomorrow, we will be celebrating a major anniversary of our country, and as I said, through everything, this is the greatest country in the world, bar none.
And at 250 years, we are still relatively young--in a country's anniversary years, at least--and there is still no stopping us now, or in the future.
Have a great weekend, and I will speak to you again on Monday.
Ain't no stoppin' US now!
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