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    Default What Are You Doing For The 4th?

    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? ...
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    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
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    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.
    I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?

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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Old ridge Runner View Post
    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...

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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter View Post
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    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.
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    Default Nothing. Stay home.

    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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    Spending with family and friends. Swimming, barbecue and front row seats to city's fireworks show.
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    I think me and the kids are going here - again:

    “… the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face" - Pete Carroll.

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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by aboutime View Post
    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)

    Yep, the State police here don't bother with the shooting off fireworks in your backyard, ust to many people doing it.
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jimnyc View Post
    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.
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