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[Lilith]

American Pixies~ What's your plans for the 4th? Do you get Monday off?

International Pixies~ What do you do on your country's Independance day?

[Sharni]

I dont really celebrate either...it is just another day

[Teddy Bear]

I'm currently not working, so I have everyday off. :D
Hubby got a half day on friday and has monday off.

Don't have any big plans. Going to have bbq with the family. (steak, mac salad, tossed salad, deviled eggs & watermelon)

Might go to see fireworks, depends on if daughters want to. If not, I can see some way off in the distance from my front porch (the high ones anyway) so I'll sit out there and watch them. No crowds. :D

Have a great day everyone! Whatever you do please be safe..... We want you back here with us on the 5th. :) :)

[flutelady]

I will be working on the 4th... but my job is a great one, and I'll be in the thick of the holiday activities.

Monday is a holiday, so no school for me... instead I'll spend the day stressing about what's to come at school on Tuesday....lol

[rockintime]

Go to an all-day festival with food booths, bands, performers, etc. Sit out on the grass there and watch a big fireworks show with the symphony playing on the stage. Take my time leaving to avoid some traffic.

[Mae]

Keeping the dogs calm and watching the stadium fireworks from our back yard.

[denny]

Helping the family unpack from their trip and go see fireworks at San Diego Bay. Monday I hope to talk to someone that will be stressed out about the upcoming Tuesday's school.

[dicksbro]

Off today but will work my normal 5AM to 8AM time tomorrow (Monday). We'll be taking in Peoria's fireworks this evening with two other couples and our oldest daughter and her family. They do it along the Illinois River and put on a great show for a small metro area (350K +/-).

[Pita]

I am off today as ususal. No plans but to clean my house. Yes I have to work tomorrow.

[PantyFanatic]

Just the standard all-day cookout with revolving family, friends and neighbors stopping by.

If you’re into the fireworks, you should be one of the stop-ins.:)
We are able to watch Cleveland’s BIG metro area (1.5 m +/-) show from the bluffs at the edge of the lake, 6 miles away. Thirty minutes after their finally, our little village (2,200 +/-) has it’s 20 – 30 minute show in the park, including lots of neat ground displays for a very small town feeling.

Something for everybody. :)

[FussyPucker]

Since most of you people gained your independance from us (The British) all I do is sit back and wait 'til you're all back under our almighty power :D you know you can't get away from us!!! ;)

[Lilith]

It's raining here :(

[PantyFanatic]

It seems to be raining BULLSHIT in Britain ---^ today too. ;) LMAO

[Mercury_Maniac]

i have to work tomorrow :(

[Oldfart]

We're still waiting for our independance. C'mon the republic.

Australia Day is a big feelgood TV time, lots of BBQs (summer) and

the seasonal fixation on the road toll.

We just passed Territory Day, our legal Cracker Night without blowing

up the Tower of Darwin (dammit). Southern States all think it's just

too dangerous, but us pinknecks claim it as our Territory right to

let off big mobs of fireworks and scare the fruitbats into next week.

Apart from that, not much.

[Cheyanne]

LOL @ you guys!

Our small town has a pretty good 4th of July parade... lots of homemade floats, big tractors, horses, and of course candy throwing.. lol

We usually have the usual cookout - beer, brats, hotdogs (must be burnt) & hamburgers...baked beans, pasta salad chips and misc snack stuff...

The town is well known around north Iowa for having the largest ground display fireworks - and many surrounding towns schedule their displays around ours which is kinda neat!

[FussyPucker]

Originally posted by PantyFanatic
It seems to be raining BULLSHIT in Britain ---^ today too. ;) LMAO LOL come on you know you want us back in charge!!

Queen Elizabeth of America, president Tony Blair it all makes perfect sense! ;):p

Then of course it's back to Oz, our prisons are getting a little over crowded....:D:D:D

[Lilith]

If I get to be the royal dungeon keeper, I say ok.

[LixyChick]

I wasn't able to get here yesterday so I'll tell ya what I did.

Woke at 7am, on the sofa, with a hangover (had apple vodka the night before...YIKES!). Took 46 ibuprophen and 3 cups of coffee (I rarely drink that much coffee) and a banana and after 2 hours I figured that wasn't working so I had a beer. That worked like a charm!

Had company come over around noon. Cooked chicken and sausage on the grill. Used BBQ sauce on chicken (has anyone tried "Stubbs" brand? It's incredible!) and put half the sausage in a tray with peppers and onions and the other half of the sausage in a tray with marinara sauce. Had potato salad, deviled eggs, mac salad, tomato slices...pineapple upsidedown cake and watermelon (couldn't bring myself to spike it) for dessert. The weather was stupendous...real warm but a nice breeze blowing all day (so my mother-in-law didn't melt...lol!). At dusk...down in the valley...the show started. I can sit in my backyard and see three different towns and their firework displays. It's as if they are trying to out-do the other. It got even breezier after the fireworks were over. We thought a storm was coming but it never materialized. Went to bed around midnight and slept in today until 8am when the cat stuck his ass in my face to "wake mommy to feed him". Quite a rude awakening actually!

Yes, I have today off...and man do I need it!

[LixyChick]

Oh...and Fussy love?

We [Americans] say "al-um-in-um" foil...and in some cases "tin" foil...just to piss you all off so you won't want us back!

*raspberries*

LOL!

[PantyFanatic]

LMAO ----^ :D

[gekkogecko]

Originally posted by LixyChick
when the cat stuck his ass in my face to "wake mommy to feed him". Quite a rude awakening actually!


Lixy, you're probably the only one besides me who would think it rude to be awakened by having a pussy stuck in your face.

No, I don't have today off, the turtles need me. Animals don't take days off.

[PantyFanatic]

Originally posted by gekkogecko
Lixy, you're probably the only one besides me who would think it rude to be awakened by having a pussy stuck in your face....
You may well be right. ;)












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[sodaklostsoul]

Originally posted by rockintime
Go to an all-day festival with food booths, bands, performers, etc. Sit out on the grass there and watch a big fireworks show with the symphony playing on the stage. Take my time leaving to avoid some traffic. OMG Rock, I remember those things from when I lived out in Cali. You would sit on the grass and it looked like the fireworks were raining down on you. Nothing here in SD compares to Cali.

[huntersgirl]

We spent the weekend at the Lake house with family. Lots of food, beer, vodka and lemonades (yummy)! It was a great time, the fireworks display put on by all my neighbors was great. Just sat in the yard and craned my neck around to look at all the competing vacationers! I keep on wanting to take out the canoe and sit in the middle of the lake to watch, it would be beautiful. This year we could have, because my parents were around to watch the baby, but unfortunately I wasn't feeling much up to it due to the beautiful black eye(it looks a bit like a water color) I obtained from bumping heads with above mentioned baby(he's fine btw...).;)

[Grumble]

ohh poor Huntersgirl, your baby is a wife beater already

My love Curvy celebrates 4th July (mmmmmmmm how come it is 4th July instead of July 4?????) another reversal, you americans are so inconsistant) by attending the fireworks with her kids in Billings Montana. She has a very neurotic dog named Rowenea that has to be sedated because of the fireworks.

I celebrate Australia Day (26th January) by helping run a special regional Little Athletics event and a Senior athletic twilight meeting later in the day.

[jseal]

I stayed home this year, and I was impressed by how many different state license plates I saw when I walked about the neighborhood at my sister in law’s. 13 of them! We certainly travel a lot over the July 4th weekend.

[fredchabotnick]

I went downtown on the 3rd and 4th for fireworks and the taste of Chicago. Each time well fortified with vodka. It's a good thing that I had today off to recover.