SO,....WHAT'S YOUR FOURTH OF JULY PLANS?????

[skip68]

Hopefully this will be a nice, (non-political/non-bashing/non-obituary) thread.........................I hope!  

We're going to a buddy's house for swimming, yummy food, fireworks, and lots of laughs!!!!   What are your plans?  

Mrs.Skip68

[Foreman72]

uncles house for some grilling ect...hanging out with family...then blowing crap up

happy 4th all!

[69*F5*SE]

The 4th is my dad's birthday so we'll make an appearance over my parents house for a while for some food and fireworks.  He's 67 this year. 

[NHCharger]

I'm cleaning and painting one of my apartment's (the joys of being a landlord).
I'm going to sneak in a ride or two with the Charger if it ever stops raining.

[dodgecharger-fan]

Tear down the playhouse in the backyard.

Wednesday was our holiday - Canada Day - but a lot of companies worked it and took today off to make for a long weekend.

[TruckDriver]

Zip/Zero/Nadda....Nothing. Stay home, watch tv, maybe play video games. No grilling cause I dont even own one.

[Foreman72]

I'm cleaning and painting one of my apartment's (the joys of being a landlord).
I'm going to sneak in a ride or two with the Charger if it ever stops raining.

man its been crazy huh...whats the deal

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Actually working during the day this year....sadly I get to miss the 4th of July parade thats near my mother-in-law's house (thank goodness)
Then its BBQ time

[mikepmcs]

Run 3 miles at 0430
Iron all clothes for the week
Finish mowing my swamp(used to be a lawn but all this rain has really drenched the place and I live on the top of a hill)Mowed til about 2115 tonight, saw lightning and put it away.

Head to the shop and spray out a couple panels to send to Ace(tylercharger69).

If I take the Charger, I'll try to figure out my flamethrowing project on the charger some more.  http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,58705.0.html

Change the oil in my Challenger for hell ride 09 next week(leave 0200 or so friday morning, 10+ down to Centreville, Va to see my parents, whom I haven't seen in years, spend the night there, up at the crack of dawn saturday to blast to Carlisle to meet some of ya'll nice people, stay there for a couple hours and drive right back to maine by early sunday morning.  Now that's how I take vacation)


Finish making Tamales(2.5 day process)
Pork is cooked, chicken will cook through the night, the make the Masa tomorrow and add the spices to the meat mix and start steaming those by Sunday at some point.

Maybe start another tattoo.  Was going to do that tonight but time just goes too fast.  Not enough hours in the day.

[Silver R/T]

have a dinner with a family

[Daytona R/T SE]

I'm going to fix my lawn mower 

[A383Wing]

Mrs. Wing & I will probably go see a movie while everyone is out blowing up their money...theaters will be empty

[Manfred318]

Meh.. no real plans here. I may take the Charger out tomorrow nite to see the fireworks, but other than that

[bull]

Well, first it's a parade and BBQ at a friend's house followed by a few hours off at home before we head over to the neighbor's house a mile away for another BBQ and fireworks show over the lake they live by. Then we'll set off our own pee-wee fireworks before I rush home and jump in bed so I can get up at 5 am the next morning for work.

[71ChallengeHer]

Working    Then going to a car show on Sunday. After the 3rd theromstat in the Chally. 

[2Gunz]

Newport beach for some party.

[68charger383]

Car show until about 3:00 and then home to go over my families house for some B-B-Q & beer and watch the fireworks

[73chgrSE]

If it stays below 100 degrees today i'll probly go crusin'. We plan on seeing some fireworks tonite. Their are several places doing really big fireworx shows in the area. not sure which one we'll hit yet.

[oldrock]

fireworks of course  Either out at our place in the country or we will sneak some into the city. Just isn't 4th of july without some good ole fireworks. Grillin some dogs and burgers too.

[69bronzeT5]

I'm going camping....but our (Canada's) holiday was on the 1st

[derailed]

Probably nothing, maybe try to mow the lawn. Pretty sure as soon as I step outside it will start to rain like its done for the last month.

[Old Moparz]

Plans? My plans changed.  

I need a roof, so I got a bunch of estimates that are twice as much as I expected, & decided that I am doing it myself. So in order to do the roof, I wanted to get rid of a sag in it that may have contributed to the roof failing. The original owner of the house hired someone to build it who claimed to be a builder. I think it was just some guy who owned a hammer, & had some drunk, crackheaded friends. They screwed up so many things that I've fixed over the last 20 years since I've been here.

In order to do the roof, I'm installing a beam to prevent the 20' long, 2x8 (inadequate) rafters from sagging.

In order to install the beam, I opened the wall to make sure I had a place to anchor it.

In order to anchor the beam, I have to repair the water damage in the wall.

In order to repair the wall, I have to remove the siding & the installed-wrong-windows that caused the leak.

In order to remove the siding & the rotted OSB sheathing, I have to remove the deck.

At least the deck is fine, but that's only because I replaced it 18 years ago myself, when the guy that owned a hammer & knew drunk crackheads screwed the original deck up a long time ago.  

[Forza]

Sitting here at work, babysitting grown men that can't behave. Then I'm going home and getting wasted and doing yard work .

[Todd Wilson]

We took the 47 Dodge to a parade and BBQ........

http://www.chargerfever.com/athsjuly42009/index.html

[TUFCAT]

I'm going camping....but our (Canada's) holiday was on the 1st

Wow....how long does that holiday last Its been 10 friggen days so far.

[69bronzeT5]

I'm going camping....but our (Canada's) holiday was on the 1st

Wow....how long does that holiday last Its been 10 friggen days so far.

I'm staying at my grandparent's from the 1st-15th so limited computer use since they don't have one with internet 

[moparnole]

Me?...Im waiting until next year

[A383Wing]

I'm going camping....but our (Canada's) holiday was on the 1st

Wow....how long does that holiday last Its been 10 friggen days so far.

I'm staying at my grandparent's from the 1st-15th so limited computer use since they don't have one with internet 

Which is why it's been quiet around here...Bronzey has not been here so everyone else has a chance to say something...I'll see him tomorrow....anyone want me to slap him around a bit?? 

[69bronzeT5]

I'll see him tomorrow....anyone want me to slap him around a bit??  [/color]

[ramairthree]

I made a long trip back home with my wife and kids.
We got to see Mom, Grampa, relatives, etc.

They had the 4th stuff a week early there.
We went to a nearby small town (Readsboro, VT) where they had a little fair.
We missed the parade in the morning and fireworks that night.  (plus the actual 4th was going to be the next weekend where we live)

I am struck at how similar everything is to when I was a kid.
Newer vets from a war that is going on and on,
older vets from previous,
crazy, current gas/oil prices, etc.
muscle cars fading away due to big brother,
A brand new president that is very different,
etc.
2009 seems a lot like 1977 if you ask me.
Or, maybe it would be more accurate to say,
there was a period when I was a kid, basically 4 to 10 years old,
that has the same "feel" as 2004 to 2010.

Only instead of being a kid in the parent's muscle cars and seeing the VFW guys-
I am a parent with muscle cars driving around the kids and could be in the VFW.



I remember going there as a little kid, in the Daytona!
And even is a world full of bad ass muscle cars left and right, the Daytona stood out and got lots of attention.

It used to be a bigger thing everyone from all around went to.  It was very small.  they stopped doing it for ages and are trying to get back to it.
Up where I am from, many of the small towns of the past are even smaller now it seems like.
I guess so many move away when they grow up, older people move because of the winters, more people work farther away, etc.

We were back home for the real 4th and went to a parade, had a cook out, went to a little local celebration at the park, and did some fireworks.