What Are You Doing For The 4th?

[High_Plains_Drifter]

My plans are pretty typical. Going to go over and visit a friend in a neighboring town and check out some tractor and truck pulls, and might even put the Camaro in their little car show. They always have good BBQ chicken, live bands and a bunch of other stuff going on, and really good fireworks for a little town. Then come home, might light a campfire and shoot off some of my fireworks.

Exciting aye? ... ;)

[Gunny]

Who needs a plan? With daughter, pointless SIL and his son, 2 granddaughters and an infant grandson it'll be a fiasco no matter what :laugh:

[Elessar]

Not given it much thought.

Visit the cemetery, maybe do a T-bone, harass the cat, and perhaps take in the
fireworks that will be set off in the harbor just down the street.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

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[Old ridge Runner]

I work until 7pm on the 4th. My wife and grandson are going over to our daughter's place for fireworks so I'll have the house to myself. Time to crack open a Yengling and sit back in easy chair and watch the fireworks on T.V.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

I work until 7pm on the 4th. My wife and grandson are going over to our daughter's place for fireworks so I'll have the house to myself. Time to crack open a Yengling and sit back in easy chair and watch the fireworks on T.V.
I hope you make double time for working on a national holiday.

Hell crack a few Yenglings... although I've never heard of that... ;)

[Abbey Marie]

I hope you make double time for working on a national holiday.

Hell crack a few Yenglings... although I've never heard of that... ;)

It’s very good, and the brewery has been around a while...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuengling


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[High_Plains_Drifter]

It’s very good, and the brewery has been around a while...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuengling
You have very few choices for spirits around here. Thankfully I like Pabst.

You can get quite a few different beers from all the micro breweries around here, and WI sure has it's share, but I don't like that strong hoppy or whatever strange flavor many of them have. Michelob Amber Bock is pretty good. I like Bass Ale when I can find it, which is rare.

[aboutime]

Wait for the Red Neck Neighbors who aren't in the Military to set off all of their Rockets, and Big Boomers...in the back yard, with the hose On Standby. Forget the cops. They are out there shooting off fireworks too! (every holiday...not just the 4th)

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[SassyLady]

Spending with family and friends. Swimming, barbecue and front row seats to city's fireworks show.

[darin]

I think me and the kids are going here - again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpnrQdibDHs

[Old ridge Runner]

I hope you make double time for working on a national holiday.

Hell crack a few Yenglings... although I've never heard of that... ;)

No double time, providing security for of all places, Phantom Fireworks. Yengling is a local beer here in central and western PA. It is also the oldest continuously operated brewery in the US. Cracking a Yengling is the same as popping the top.

[Old ridge Runner]

Wait for the Red Neck Neighbors who aren't in the Military to set off all of their Rockets, and Big Boomers...in the back yard, with the hose On Standby. Forget the cops. They are out there shooting off fireworks too! (every holiday...not just the 4th)

https://d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/4th-July-Sorry.jpg


Yep, the State police here don't bother with the shooting off fireworks in your backyard, ust to many people doing it.

[jimnyc]

Nothing, just can't do it yet. Mom passed on the 4th in 2010, and I saw more than I should have in saying goodbye. I can only pray that she was still there enough to have heard me, I'll never know. Then hearse, then seeing them remove her - it tore me apart like you would never believe. I should have left when they got there, but I got in my truck, on the highway and hit about 100 when I saw that.

Now fireworks just bring me back to that moment in time, thinking about that day, what I shouldn't have seen. No child should have to see that, and no parent should see a child like that. Been in a little spiral at times over this and kinda stopped caring about certain things and not giving a crap about other things that used to scare me.

I hate the 4th for that.

But I LOVE America and I LOVE our freedoms. I'll never stop celebrating that inside of me. I just don't think I can picture myself going to enjoy a show or anything like that anymore.

[Abbey Marie]

Nothing, just can't do it yet. Mom passed on the 4th in 2010, and I saw more than I should have in saying goodbye. I can only pray that she was still there enough to have heard me, I'll never know. Then hearse, then seeing them remove her - it tore me apart like you would never believe. I should have left when they got there, but I got in my truck, on the highway and hit about 100 when I saw that.

Now fireworks just bring me back to that moment in time, thinking about that day, what I shouldn't have seen. No child should have to see that, and no parent should see a child like that. Been in a little spiral at times over this and kinda stopped caring about certain things and not giving a crap about other things that used to scare me.

I hate the 4th for that.

But I LOVE America and I LOVE our freedoms. I'll never stop celebrating that inside of me. I just don't think I can picture myself going to enjoy a show or anything like that anymore.

Sorry Jim.

I don’t have a special association, but since my Dad died alone in the middle of the night last year, the funeral director asked me to look at a picture of him right after he passed to identify him. That photo can never be unseen. Tore me up.

Nothing planned for the 4th. I will probably just toast Russ’ ancestor’s Revolutionary War musket, and think about what he must have gone through fighting at age 15. That’s what it’s all about, after all.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Nothing, just can't do it yet. Mom passed on the 4th in 2010, and I saw more than I should have in saying goodbye. I can only pray that she was still there enough to have heard me, I'll never know. Then hearse, then seeing them remove her - it tore me apart like you would never believe. I should have left when they got there, but I got in my truck, on the highway and hit about 100 when I saw that.

Now fireworks just bring me back to that moment in time, thinking about that day, what I shouldn't have seen. No child should have to see that, and no parent should see a child like that. Been in a little spiral at times over this and kinda stopped caring about certain things and not giving a crap about other things that used to scare me.

I hate the 4th for that.

But I LOVE America and I LOVE our freedoms. I'll never stop celebrating that inside of me. I just don't think I can picture myself going to enjoy a show or anything like that anymore.
I did NOT know that... maaaaan... that's a rough story there, really sorry to hear that, but I can relate.

My Dad died on Oct. 26th, 2012, just 3 three weeks after they found stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He'd just been complaining of a little stomach pain, he thought it was gas. By the time they found it, he didn't stand a chance. No more than just a couple weeks later he was doing pretty bad and they had to put him in the hospital. The doctor told us that his insides were just shutting down. My mother, younger sister, nephew and I remained at the hospital at his side for 5 days. My dad would want to stand up at times and once while I was holding his arm to steady him, he looked over at me with this absolutely TERRIFIED expression and said... "I'm dying." I didn't know what to tell him... I still don't know what I could have told him. What DO you say to someone in a situation like that? I have no idea. But it's haunted me ever since. Going on 6 years later and I can remember that moment like it just happened 5 minutes ago. We stayed until he took his last breath.

I think watching a loved one pass is the probably the toughest thing anyone will ever do in their life... @jimnyc (http://www.debatepolicy.com/member.php?u=1)

[High_Plains_Drifter]

I'll be here taking in the festivities and catching the fireworks at dusk...

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[High_Plains_Drifter]

Well, I'm being urged to put my Camaro in the car show. I guess there's a class for new cars, I could win something. It is unique that it has had the stripes painted on and they're not decals. I'll check it out when I get there... I just might.

Going to take a quick shower and split.

[Gunny]

I'm watching it rain for the first time in over a month. All over everyone's 4th of July cookouts.