Have some friends coming over from the east coast. Meeting up to take out a few boats and go over to Sanibel Island. Then back home for a good size party.

Anyone who is home alone is more than welcome to join the debauchery.

I figured i'd don my old cammies, dig a foxhole in the front yard, and scream "They're in the wire!" as i fire off Roman candles into the night time sky.

I like to keep my neighbors on their toes.

Umm....Going toThe "Heritage and Freedom Festival" in O'Fallon, MO.?
It's right down the street from me.
I didn't know.
I've got no 911 to trade for anymore though...

Big party at home. The Jersey shore is no place to travel on a holiday weekend! (unless you enjoy sitting in standstill traffic all day!)

Some of the wifes relatives are visiting so the wife is going nuts. Friday we have to take them to a Tim Mcgraw concert, taking the men golfing on Saturday, and the casino on Saturday night.

The wife is going to owe me big time.

So you sold your car? You at least still have a pair of seats in my basement.

BBQ in the back yard, swim in the pool all day with the family, and watch fireworks from Anaheim stadium or Disneyland at night.
No traveling, no dealing with dorks, just kicking back and enjoying my little piece of the world in private.

Ugh.

I'm going to a party at a college friend's house.

I just got an e-mail that the best friend of the hostess (who married another friend of mine) just had a miscarriage at five months. She and her husband are understandably upset and have asked that no one bring it up--which I can appreciate. I wouldn't want to talk about it either in their situation. :(

MONKEY HUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


there's a chimp loose in the national forest north of L.A.

HOOT! We'll be hosting a pair of Brit ladies...but be warned, when Jane Standen was here with her departed hubby, we went to the local gun club. She, the brit, was MUCH better with a handgun than her USA husband.

Probably because she's distantly related to this guy, sharing the same last name:



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wish I could join you Dottore! BBQ with friends then home to blow stuff up.

Every year we host a 4th party at our home for my old college/fraternity buddies and their families. Most of them live in the city....... their kids and a few of the men think that coming out to my place with a pond, atv's, minibikes, airplanes etc is something akin to going to Disneyworld (in fact some call it "HancockWorld"). It is a lot of work prepping for it and my wife gets cranky from it, but all us 40ish age guys have a blast acting like kids again. A couple of years ago we did a BMX jump into the pond, before that we waterskiied across the pond with a long rope and an ATV.

For some reason the wives don't seem to enjoy this as much as the guys and kids.;):D

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I'll be spending the 4th at my wife's family camp in da UP of Michigan. Gas lights, wood sauna, watter from the well. It's pretty much heaven on earth.

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Where in the UP Phred? I was in Menominee last weekend and usually hit Houghton once a summer...

Camp is in/on Little America, NW of Houghton.

And everyone loves a parade. This is from South Range:

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Going to hang out with my first boss out of University in Kingston WA. I lost touch with him for the last decade and found him on LinkedIn recently. He is an ex-NSA, Chicago MBA mormon. There will be flags :)

Going up to visit the wife's family in Watertown, SD. Silly downtown parade, but the weather is generally nice.

July 4, 1776 is when America "Declared" independence from England...The Declaration of Independence.

Randy

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