Back in the shop today after too long. Humidity was brutal but got some work done. Some lower wall cabinets in progress. Big reception desk is next. Made these for dinner after I had enough sweating in the shop
Quiet Independence Day out here. Second home summer home parties quieted down at like 10:30 after everyone lit off fireworks. Camp ground doesn't have very many campers. It was a cooler day and brisk evening but still weird.
Yesterday was more like labor day. I weed wacked and took down a couple of small trees. The trees are junk maples, so when I say small, I mean the diameter isn't but 4-5". 20' tall though. cut all the limbs and trunks so that they will fit well into the Explorer to go to the brush pile at the dump. I'm sure I did other stuff too, just can't remember what it was. Do remember watering a couple of the gardens, the big rhodie out front, the potted plants in the yard and on the back porch. Also scrubbed out the two small bird waterers/baths and refilled them. Been pretty dry at my place with about 3/4" rain in the last month (and most of that was in one shot a week ago so it didn't really stick). Today I am taking Rainey (one of my cats) to the vet. Next week she goes in for tooth and gum surgery so they need to make sure she hasn't developed an infection in the broken tooth. Once I have her back home it's then to the bank to roll over a CD into the special rates (otherwise automatic roll-over gets a lower rate by about 1/2).
It was very quiet around here too. Not a typical July 4. Almost no traffic and no signs of any parties.
Oddly quiet here. Municipal fireworks off in the distance at/shortly after sunset, then - quiet. Almost no residential fireworks at all. A sign of economic shrink ? Youngsters next door had a bouncy house in the back yard and people over but they were done around 9:30. They mostly sit around on the deck talking, maybe grilling.
Man, there have been fireworks going off almost every night for the past week here...TONS last night! Our local show in town is Saturday night...they say we go from 8500, to 100,000 people for the event...for a small town they do a heck of a show!
We go down to dad's place for fireworks because there are no fireworks where I live. I picked up a box of Safe and Sane fireworks and we made ice cream. It was a great day with dad, my sisters my wife and three sons. Last year was strange in that there were no illegal fireworks around. This year was back to normal. We are watching our safe and sane fireworks and the cul-de-sac across from us they are setting off a near professional fireworks display for almost two hours. I hope you all had a good Forth!
Well, everyone liked the pulled pork from the Boston butts ( I’m my own worst critic though and didn’t think they were as tender as usual did the entire cook with cherry and flavor was very good) Both DIL brought sides, slaw and tater salad, wife made baked beans. We also had banana pudding and blueberry cobbler for dessert. We had 12 total here so was lively! No one went hungry for sure
Ummm. Sound check today for the Colorado guy buying up every property he can out here. The sound check from a block today was so loud I would have swown it was in our driveway! he has 3+ acres of campers and cars parked nose to nose as of this evening . I guess this explains why it went quiet early last night. He hired a professional fireworks company too. I think the fireworks show will be nice, but...
i avoid the crowds, light flashes and booms, Haunting memories of past events I don't want to be reminded of. No family BBQ so it was a dull day. I should have gone to the concert but instead took a nap.
It was a great fireworks show! Folding camp chairs and propane duck blind heater. WOW, it was like going to the stadium like when my parents took me as a child when the boomers lit up right over your head, except in our driveway, cool! Speakers were not too loud like the sound check this afternoon, just loud enough to hear the songs between firework booms and the live band there now is even lower volume. *Noting to self for 10 years in the future to see if this out of state land grabber might own most the properties on the road by then. And turns this place into unlivable tourism zoo*
