Nothing much. Probably grill something and have my Mother and the Wifes sister over. Both boys are going to the lake (different lakes) with their respective inlaws. We have been invited but with social distancing and being a 2 hour drive away we'll just stay at home this year. Happy 4th to everyone!
My wife will work her usual shift. We plan on attending Buttes fireworks on the 3rd. It is a good time, most are sober and it leaves the 4th open for other stuff. We will grill something and enjoy life.
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Looking forward to having a few rest days. Gonna get some mowing done. My company is taking Monday as the holiday because we're off weekends anyway. Gonna try and get some Range time in Monday.
Do the best you can, with what you've got, where you're at. -Theodore Roosevelt
For me some trigger time and stay under the air conditioner the rest of the time
My wife and I will stay home on the ranch.
There are some fireworks shows in spite of Covid restrictions. Most of them are put on by a Family that has their storage magazine on our ranch to supply their commercial shows.
The reason we invited this family to store their inventory here is because during the winter months, elk ravage our hay stacks. We use consumer grade pyrotechnics to haze the away and guess who takes care of us.
Also, if we went through the class they put on periodically for safety training we could help set off shows with his supervision. One of these days we will take him up on his offer!
His biggest pyro item is a Sixteen inch mortar round. It requires a 10 foot long tube 16 inches in inside diameter to properly launch it. The rule of thumb is that you get 75 feet of lift per inch of diameter with a pyro mortar. That comes out to an elevation of 1100 feet. The shell is supposed to produce a 600 foot diameter display plume. As I understand it the shells of that magnitude are more typically fired off of barges. If you fire on land you need a lot of clearance from buildings etc. .... and a well stocked fire truck? LOL!
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I will be at my clubs indoor range on the 4th. Members only, and will not see very many people. Mask required to enter, may remove on the range where the ventilation is. needless to say I will use the range also. Sounds like a hard days work!
SIL is putting a roof over the back deck, about 16 x 16 or a little wider. I agreed to help.
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He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
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Work. Will complete 13 days straight. I’m taking Sunday off.
Ouch!Originally Posted by dangitgriff
"Luck don't live out here. Wolves don't kill the unlucky deer; they kill the weak ones..." Jeremy Renner in Wind River
If you were in Washington, I'd take care of at least one of those elk for you... I've lived here 5 years and still haven't gotten a Washington hunting license. I still go every year with my dad and brother in Idaho, but don't shoot anything.
"Luck don't live out here. Wolves don't kill the unlucky deer; they kill the weak ones..." Jeremy Renner in Wind River
Came out to Commifornia to visit family... Gov just shut down all indoor dining/ drinking for the weekend. Most of these places just opened op.
SoCial is not happy with the power drunk Gov.
Were all staying in and watching fireworks on an outdoor screen....
Everybody just needs to wear BLM shirts and go to the beach or where ever and do what ever they want and scream at anyone that tries to stop you that you are just a peacefull protester. %$^&(#OKIOY#(*PGKNUIHETY
same as every year. Stay at home and grill some back straps. Never was a people person and haven't gone to the 4th celebration in years.
Wow man, I kinda miss those days now that I've been put out to pasture awhile.
Anywho I'm going to till the wife's new flower garden and maybe go shoot a couple corn stealing hogs. Then fire up the smoker. Well that's the next week anyhow I'm still moving slow these days,but I'm still moving!!
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Not much going on here as far as I know - our first 4th in Arizona due to me recovering from surgery. Things have tightened up again due to Covid - we will be spending our time inside since the weekend is supposed to be hot. Our flag will be flying however, as it always does. We live in a 55 + community and I have often told people that I can tell every Republican residence on the street . . . it's pretty simple . . we all have flags out on display. I'm surprised all the Left Socialists haven't tried to abolish the 4th of July and replace it with "Take a rioter to lunch day".
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.That 16 incher just might be an excellent crowd dispersal instrument.Lay it a bit off level,and fire it down the street at the rioters loaded with an aerial bomb,not a star burst
HeHeHe.As for me,I`m staying home away from all the drunks,junkies and pill popping idiots.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo
People never lie so much as after a hunt,during a war,or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
Retired after working nights for forty years and most holidays I'm going to go outside have a cold beer and toast every one still working in that sole sucking S hole say how sorry I feel for them then laugh my butt off . May even text them to let them know how much I like not being there.
Then I have to go in and babysit the dogs, thy don't care much for the fireworks.
We go through life trying to make the best decisions we can based on the best infomation we can find, that turns out to be wrong.
Im hoping to make the "circle " in the morning Mom and Dads graves, great uncle Jims and Willards Grandma and Grandpas and last My wife's. Then come home spend the day with the Grand sons (7,5,and 2 ) and son and daughter with cold drinks and ice cream. ( when daughter tells me its enough I know to add 2 more scoops for the kids)Spend they day with family .
I hope to visit the travling Vietnam wall which will be in my area this weekend, should bring back alot of good and bad memories.
GF is here, been staying here since the beginning of the covid thing, we plan on doing BBQ baby backs and tater salad, corn on the cob, baked beans, sweet tea and cornbread!
And a BIG THANKS to all of those who contributed to our freedom to do exactly as we please! We really should call Independence Day Thanksgiving Day and call the latter Turkey Day.
As a footnote, I hear more hi capacity magazines being emptied than I ever did fireworks in this pissant little town I live in. Still, the rifle and shotgun will be on elevated risk just in case some of the locals decide to venture out of da hood and tread on our street spraying lead and discontent.
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