BBQ—buy or make 

Potato salad 

Baked beans 

Lots of preparing and cooking  

Thinking up/ finding other recipes to try 

Fireworks—would they please stop 

Illegal where we are in city limits 

Scaring dogs + cats 

More sensitive 

Big Fireworks Display—in Birmingham, Red Mountain/ Vulcan 

Tradition—watching from the hospital  

No major traditions in relation to the Revolution or American Freedom