Happy pre Fourth of July weekend!

Dav4

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It’s the Friday morning before the long Fourth of July weekend… It’s sweltering out in southern Michigan with a dewpoint over 70° and strong sunshine despite the smoke filled air. I just finished de-candling about one third of my Japanese black pines before I have to head out to work, then I am off until next Wednesday :). Plenty of time to finish the others over the next few days and eat and drink a little in between!

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You’ve inspired me. I think I’ll decandle one of my JBP this weekend as well. Cheers and an early happy 4th!
 
Good luck decandling.

4th of July is not just a movie thing then? Or is it just a day off?
 
Good luck decandling.

4th of July is not just a movie thing then? Or is it just a day off?
Oh it’s definitely a big celebration across the country. People have parties, parades, and fireworks. Most people have that day off of work unless they work in healthcare or the service industry.
 
It is time to celebrate the great event.

Four score and seven years ago, the great Abraham Lincoln gazed out upon the poppies of Flanders Field and saw a vision. He had a dream. And little did he know that in a humble attic not far away, little Rosa Parks was valiantly sewing our first flag unmindful of the Communist threat.

Yes, even then he could not envision that a humble midnight ride by that early patriot, John Birch, would signal a great war for our security.

From the bitter winter that George Washington spent at the battle of the bulge would spring a new nation, conceived in diversity and dedicated to a valiant legislature that would steer our course unerringly toward the freedom that we enjoy today.

And as Santa Anna drove his dagger into woodsman Daniel Boone, little did he know that he could not with such a craven cowardly act deprive the United States of our ancestors' concepts of the honor of greatness and the much beloved prospectus of the American corporation.

That is why we are gathered here today. To salute our brave forefathers who brought forth such symbols of greatness as our honored United States Federal Reserve which safeguards the very security of the fruits of our labors in making this nation prosperous and free.

So, let us make this day a celebration. Light the skies of liberty with the flames and sparkles of the fireworks that we with our freedom liberally import from nations who do not enjoy the lifestyles for which we owe such great debt.

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Get 'er done asap. We are at the very end of decandling window here I think. I'm finishing today.
Now I remember why I didn’t do it yet. The growth on both my JBP was so weak there was no reason to decandle.
 
Another Michigander checking in, our neighborhood has a fireworks display tonight. It's almost too hot and muggy to sit outside! Happy Fourth to the USA folks, and happy weekend to the rest of our bonsai friends in other places.
 
Happy 4th! Remember that Superfly Bonsai has 20% special going on!(just got the text for it) 😂
 
Just got our son-in-law back from deployment on the Nimitz last week. He flies fighter jets for the Navy, and we've been a Navy family since my daughter married. No extension = Happy 4th!
 
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