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What does everyone have planned for the 4th? We're having a giant cookout (to show off the new pool) and we'll all go to the annual Ancients & Horribles parade and then come back for more food and fireworks. It's going to be a blast!



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Oooh! Share your pool pics! We got ours last year but this is the first 4th with it...so we're having my parents over and whatever neighbors want to drop by. We bought the PA fireworks to shoot off later, too.

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It just got put in Wednesday and the yard is all tore up. I promise pictures as soon as I fix the landscaping on Saturday.

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It's only an above ground but I will enjoy the heck out of it.

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Not sure.

I'm think ribs might be on the menu at some point.

There will most likely be a ball tournament across the road this weekend.

So I may give the kids a few bucks to go get burgers from the concessions.

Fireworks are on just about every night.



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I just checked, seems this year, both counties are doing fireworks on Saturday night.


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You'll enjoy it so much, tiny!

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Going to my bil's for a huge bbq and fireworks. They have a pool too.

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I went in for the first time yesterday but the water was still soooooo cold I couldn't stay in long. We've got the solar heater and the solar cover both warming it up so hopefully it'll be warmer for the 4th.

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I am vegging out! I need a break. I get to leave at noon tomorrow.

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Lindley wrote:

Going to my bil's for a huge bbq and fireworks. They have a pool too.

 I'll be thinking of you then Lindley!



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Shouldn't take long this time of the year!

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TrudyML wrote:

I am vegging out! I need a break. I get to leave at noon tomorrow.

 What no beer!!!!!!



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TrudyML wrote:

I am vegging out! I need a break. I get to leave at noon tomorrow.

I'm just vegging too.  I used to be able to sit on my deck & see a nice fireworks show.  Now the trees in the woods behind me have grown too big for me to see it.   



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Tinydancer wrote:
Lindley wrote:

Going to my bil's for a huge bbq and fireworks. They have a pool too.

 I'll be thinking of you then Lindley!

 Thanks☺ hope it doesn't  rain.



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G is off again. So yet another weekend alone...(How many does this make now??????)

I'm going to try to get some much needed de-cluttering done...then maybe I will go swimming. He is going to be in no mood to talk to when he gets back...

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Tinydancer wrote:
TrudyML wrote:

I am vegging out! I need a break. I get to leave at noon tomorrow.

 What no beer!!!!!!

with beer!  And Chinese food! 



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The 4th will probably be a quiet evening at home. Tempe Town Lake has fireworks (usually) but there's not enough money in the world to get me to deal with that crowd. Our neighbors aren't exactly, shall we say, the most caring about following rules so there will probably be a few of them shooting off fireworks. We may just watch one of their displays, if invited.

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Back in my teens & 20s we would always go to DC & spend the entire day on the mall. Now I couldn't imagine dealing with the crowd & porta potties. I really am getting old & crotchety!

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The city fireworks? I can look out my window.

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I'll be seeing some of my cousins, show will be in a hotel nearby.

Normally I would water my roof, because the next door neighbor sets off a lot of explosives

including sky rickets,

but I physically can't do it this year.

 



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I don't like bottle rockets. Especially if you have wood shingled roof or dry mulch.

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there are no fireworks of any kind sold or in displays anywhere in several counties where I live, due to dry conditions and the massive fires burning that have taken homes and livestock. Firefighters coming in from all over trying to get ahead of them, one almost jumped the interstate a couple days ago. It is horrible and the wind and horribly dry conditions do not help at all

We will be taking the boat to the lake, camping, fishing, tubing and relaxing...looking forward to it.

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The 4th is DH's favorite holiday, and this year will be great because all different events are happening on different days, so hopefully we will get to do the parade and the city fireworks on Saturday and on the 4th we go to some good friends for a BBQ and to shoot of our own fireworks.

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I'm going to Tiny's.

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We have no plans. I've been so busy, I forgot to make plans for the holiday. DD12 will be away at camp.

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Will someone come and water my roof for me?



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A local church on the road parallel to ours has a huge fireworks display - one of their members is a certified pyrotechnician (?) and is in charge of all the fireworks. Its about 1/2 mile from our home, and we can sit on the back porch with a perfect view. We've invited all our immediate neighbors (10-12 people) to a party on our porch at dusk. I'm making all sorts of hors d'oeuvres - hot and cold - and icing down Coors, wines, iced tea, sodas, and other beverages. Ours is the "party house", and I'll cloister the kitty in one of the bedrooms for the duration. Fortunately, we've had about 2" of rain within the last 6 days, so the danger of fire is diminished.



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SS said he might come for a visit. I'm waiting to hear from him. DN and her b/f might come over to eat. I'm making four kinds of kabobs, cilantro lime rice, and bacon wrapped corn on the cob. We might go out to his dad's land and watch fireworks. He lives on ten acres.

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I'm going to Tiny's.

 I'll throw a burger on the grill for you!



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Tinydancer wrote:
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I'm going to Tiny's.

 I'll throw a burger on the grill for you!

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Tinydancer wrote:
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I'm going to Tiny's.

 I'll throw a burger on the grill for you!

I want 2! 



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A neighboring town does up the 4th so going to head over there and check it out.

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TrudyML wrote:
Tinydancer wrote:
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I'm going to Tiny's.

 I'll throw a burger on the grill for you!

I want 2! 

 And a beer!!!!



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A few beers! Been a long week! Oh, and a frappe! Chocolate, please.

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We have several fireworks shows in the area. We can usually see the Vienna fireworks if we walk to the end of our driveway, up over the trees. They do a fantastic show on NYE which I can see from our bedroom window because the trees are bare. It's a nice end to the ones we fire off. I think this year I'll stream the patriotic music to our outdoor speaker while we shoot them off, for a little more effect.

Years ago we went to the show in Herndon and it was spectacular. The fireworks were synced with the music. Another year, FIL took us to Longwood Gardens where the fireworks were timed with the fountains and music and that was really nice, too. Of course, this was before the grandchildren came along...



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DS will be here on Sunday and we already have his DS with us.

DD has to work, but we are still having a fireworks show here.

I'm going to bake a huge batch of chocolate chip cookies later today and hope they last the weekend.

HDD will not be back until Tuesday night, so we are FREE to enjoy ourselves without her antics!

DH will take the older kids fishing tomorrow.

Food will be whatever hits the grill. :)

Hope you all have a great weekend.

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It's RAINING !!!

 

If it rains a lot, I won't have to water the roof.

 



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Ed ~
That's great!

DH took me fishing this morning (oh-dark-thirty); just to pay him back, I caught more than 3X as many fish as he did!

But he IS the one who taught me! Guess I'm a quick learner.



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just Czech wrote:

DS will be here on Sunday and we already have his DS with us.

DD has to work, but we are still having a fireworks show here.

I'm going to bake a huge batch of chocolate chip cookies later today and hope they last the weekend.

HDD will not be back until Tuesday night, so we are FREE to enjoy ourselves without her antics!

DH will take the older kids fishing tomorrow.

Food will be whatever hits the grill. :)

Hope you all have a great weekend.

 I'm so glad you get a lovely weekend w/o HDD to enjoy with the rest of the family.  You deserve a break.



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Yes, Czech, you DO deserve a break.

flan

p.s. Are there nuts in the chocolate chip cookies???

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Czech, if you bring the cookies over here I'm making four kinds of kabobs. Corn on the cob and some rice. Come on over. We can share.

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I'm not working. That's what I'm doing! Not sure of the food part. I want to grill something but I have been working so hard on not eating bad things I don't want to ruin it. Down 10 pounds since braces delivery!

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Southern_Belle wrote:

I'm not working. That's what I'm doing! Not sure of the food part. I want to grill something but I have been working so hard on not eating bad things I don't want to ruin it. Down 10 pounds since braces delivery!

 Wow great!



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I need braces!

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I need braces!

flan

 It really helps! No food is enjoyable anymore. Everything just gets stuck in the brckets. So gross! It was great motivation to get back on the diet and exercise train.



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Today will be spent doing the usual weekend chores. Lawn, laundry, vacuuming, mopping, organizing.

Tomorrow will be spent exploring somewhere. Maybe Philly (but it is crazy with tourists this weekend), maybe New Hope, maybe tubing down the Delaware River.

Monday will be spent back at home. Will probably grill ribs. Finish any odds and ends that need to be done.

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After inventory is done the weekend will be over. But on Monday, Minneapolis is setting off fireworks timed to the music of Prince. DH and I are considering going up for that but it doesn't start until 10pm and it's an hour away and I have to be at work the next morning...and gosh I sound old...

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jlbear71 wrote:

Today will be spent doing the usual weekend chores. Lawn, laundry, vacuuming, mopping, organizing.

Tomorrow will be spent exploring somewhere. Maybe Philly (but it is crazy with tourists this weekend), maybe New Hope, maybe tubing down the Delaware River.

Monday will be spent back at home. Will probably grill ribs. Finish any odds and ends that need to be done.

 I've done that!  On a hot day one July many moons ago.  



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