What is everyone doing on the 4th?

Either sitting on the cabin deck solo or smoking meat for a neighbors party. Undecided at this point. Wife and kids are gone for about 10 days so I am free. Kind of. One of my mutts isn’t doing well so I may need to stick close to home and the vet.

Praying your fur baby gets to feeling better soon.
 
Im blowing up stuff lol

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Either sitting on the cabin deck solo or smoking meat for a neighbors party. Undecided at this point. Wife and kids are gone for about 10 days so I am free. Kind of. One of my mutts isn’t doing well so I may need to stick close to home and the vet.
I hope your furry friend is going to be ok.
 
Just found out that our Daughter is visiting for the 4th and staying the weekend! Woo Hoo!
Wifey will cook, I will grill sumpin', life is good!
Mebbe I can get daughter to come with us to Big Ed's on the 5th, especially if @Jeppo will let us shoot at his place before.

Edit: Dangit! She's only comin' fer the day on the 4th... leavin' that evenin'.
Yep, thats kids for you! They zip in and then they're gone. I'm glad she'll be there for the day, though!
 
@NCLivingBrit , how does this work for you? Do you celebrate American Independence? Or is it just another day?

At UNC Hospitals we had a transplant surgeon, a Limey. One year we asked him, "what are you doing for July 4th?" He was like, "ha ha, very funny...." We told him the formal name of the holiday is "We kicked your ass day." He was a great guy, and understood the humor and we were just needling him.
 
@NCLivingBrit , how does this work for you? Do you celebrate American Independence? Or is it just another day?

At UNC Hospitals we had a transplant surgeon, a Limey. One year we asked him, "what are you doing for July 4th?" He was like, "ha ha, very funny...." We told him the formal name of the holiday is "We kicked your ass day." He was a great guy, and understood the humor and we were just needling him.

He’s gonna pour one out for his dead homies
 
I will be recovering from my 50th birthday the day before on the 3rd and still charging it and celebrating the 4th here in our cul-de-sac with the neighbors. Well, that's the plan at least!
 
probably gonna finish hanging my steel and banging it later on after a cookout. Of course, we're doing a grad party / cookout on Saturday anyhow so it may just be leftovers. I despise thru-the-week holidays when I can't take off the day before or after.
 
Sharpen knives. Not drink. Go to work Friday.
I think ima take off Friday so when I sit around Thursday and drink myself stupid I won’t feel bad when I get up early on Friday
 
well, to start... the SWGC USPSA Rifle/PCC/Handgun match will take place on June 29th, 2019, at 9:00 AM
 
July 4th was my dad’s birthday, so the day always starts with a mellow bit of reflection over the past year “to get him up to speed”. Some years I go up to Henderson (where my wife’s family is buried) and do some gravesite maintenance. I think I’m skipping it this year because I didn’t buy any stone cleaner (thought I already had some).

We have a family tradition of cooking a turkey for dinner. It is a combination of getting that second turkey that we bought at Thanksgiving prices out of the freezer, and paying homage to the bird Mr. Franklin thought should represent America. In a really good year we have some sweet corn and SC peaches with it. Looks like it is not a good year for corn this time.

My daughter will be at Girl Scout camp, and she is the only one who really cares about fireworks. We’ll set off some firecrackers, but that is about it.
 
The night before I will probably read On the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, a resolution adopted by the 2nd Continental Congress in 1775 that explains why that first generation of Americans were girding themselves for war in the years before Independence was declared.

My daughter and I will be marching in our neighborhood Independence Day Parade the morning of the 4th - I in my Continentals with either the Bess or the Charleville, her in one of her 18th Century dresses and bonnet. We’re marching with the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapters, with me representing my Sons of the American Revolution Chapter.

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Then we’ll come home and I’m making fried chicken from a 1733 English recipe, along with a 1750s macaroni and cheese recipe, and probably some fried okra and either cornbread or sourdough rolls or something.

After lunch, I will reread the Declaration in its entirety, and then do a lot of thinking about what it meant then, and how it should continue to resonate today. I will then go place Betsy Ross flags on the local Rev War veterans graves that I am aware of - 35 in Mooresville, 3 about 5 minutes from my house in Denver, and 12 more in Huntersville.

I will toast that generation in thoughts and with spirits, celebrate Righteous Treason and Sacred Sedition, and pray that Almighty God is not yet done with the American experiment in self government.

Probably some fireworks as well. Included with that may be some nighttime flintlock musket firings (just powder, no ball).

Before I lay down, I will think on what Thomas Jefferson said about the Declaration in 1826, before he and John Adams would meet again at the gates of Heaven (both died within hours of each other on July 4th, 1826 - 50 years to the day) on what he thought it meant 50 years later, and what he hoped it would always mean for all posterity (I have taken the Liberty highlighted the critical part of the letter):

(Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Roger C. Weightman)
Monticello, June 24, 1826

Respected Sir-

The kind invitation I receive from you, on the part of the citizens of the city of Washington, to be present with them at their celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of American Independence, as one of the surviving signers of an instrument pregnant with our own, and the fate of the world, is most flattering to myself, and heightened by the honorable accompaniment proposed for the comfort of such a journey. It adds sensibly to the sufferings of sickness, to be deprived by it of a personal participation in the rejoicings of that day. But acquiescence is a duty, under circumstances not placed among those we are permitted to control. I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made.

May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

I will ask permission here to express the pleasure with which I should have met my ancient neighbors of the city of Washington and its vicinities, with whom I passed so many years of a pleasing social intercourse; an intercourse which so much relieved the anxieties of the public cares, and left impressions so deeply engraved in my affections, as never to be forgotten. With my regret that ill health forbids me the gratification of an acceptance, be pleased to receive for yourself, and those for whom you write, the assurance of my highest respect and friendly attachments.

Th. Jefferson


Independence Day is my favorite holiday, bar none. Were it only so for most Americans, we wouldn’t be in half the rough shape the Republic is in.

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My son and his family are heading down and will go to the pool on the 4th and in the boat on the 5th. After the boat we will be heading to the Savannah Bananas baseball game.
 
I will be recovering from my 50th birthday the day before on the 3rd and still charging it and celebrating the 4th here in our cul-de-sac with the neighbors. Well, that's the plan at least!
Have a great day, I turn 60 on the third.:)
 
Starting early - Johnsonville Firecrackers on the grill right now!

On the 4th, I'll probably do my morning chores early as usual, maybe pew if the temperature doesn't get up on me too soon, then pick a holiday-appropriate book to pass the heat of the day, do my evening chores to beat last light, read a while, then crash. Wild life! :D
 
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