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• 1. glamour-geek  |  July 4th, 2008 at 5:33 pm

  ACK! Attack of cuteness!

  Sweet little kitties. Thanks for the pic! I will count on more in 2 week increments so we can watch them grow!

  I am very proud. I cleaned out one dresser and the closet. I am giving more away to Goodwill than I purchased the other day. This is all good. Some clothes are also on the “watch” list. If I don’t wear them in the next 6 months or so, they go too. Plus discovered on skirt needs a new zipper and one sleeveless top needs a bit o’ mending. And three tops go with me tomorrow to a friend who will wear them since I never do.

  Cleaning and getting rid of stuff feels GOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!

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• 2. BCB  |  July 4th, 2008 at 6:08 pm

  Oh, how cute. Two of those look like my cat. Only younger and smaller. On the way out of the neighborhood today there were flyers posted on the stop signs: “FREE KITTENS” I kept saying NO as my DD kept reciting the phone number. By now maybe she’s forgotten about it.

  Well, we shopped and I’m about to drop. Along with my bank balance. Very long day. Lots of fun. At one point DD said, “This 4th of July feels the least like the 4th of any I remember, ever. No beach, no pool, no fireworks, not even any sparklers.” So we stopped at the grocery store and got brats and hot dogs and chips and French onion dip and a 12-pack of Coors light, which made me think of Wapak. None of these things come in two-person packages, so there’s plenty for everyone. Dig in.

  I’m going to go sit quietly by the lake for a while (thanks, LTL!). Don’t know why we never thought to get ourselves a lake before now. I plan to take the boat out later to watch the fireworks from the water, if anyone wants to ride along. I love being out on a boat.

  Unless I fall asleep on the couch first. Someone wake me up, okay?

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• 3. Louisal  |  July 4th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

  Those are cute kittens, all right! Thanks, theresa. Didn’t I know you under a different name? Oh, well, I’ve been asleep since then.

  Had my nap under the chinaberry tree–with a smelly old bulldog, who fetched the frisby about three times before he plopped down beside me, because you can’t get a beagle to take a nap–and someday someone will explain the outcry against beagles. I’m taking my canteen and sitting in the back of the boat. Is BCB driving? Or Louis can drive.
  Where the heck is Bryan? And I want OH back!

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• 4. Mary  |  July 4th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

  Dibs on that hammock between the two willow trees right next to the lake.

  Also, if anyone’s interested, CrankyFitness.com is giving away a free exercise DVD (pick one from a catalog) this weekend. And you don’t have to be in America to win, which is nice.

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• 5. Mary  |  July 4th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

  Louisa, beagles are allergic to CB meets. When the whack gets together, the beagles start a-baying and do not abate, which gets annoying after a bit.

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• 6. McB  |  July 4th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

  Back from viewing A Capitol Fourth … on tv. Much more comfortable watching from home and you don’t have to deal with the traffic afterwards. But they did put on a great show, as usual. Oh, hey, somebody sang “O, Canada.” Probably because Scope asked for it. Lots of other good entertainment too, and then the fireworks accompanied by the 1812 Overture, complete with actual real cannon fire. I always wonder if anybody else sees the irony of firing cannons in the city to the tune of 1812.

  The lake is a nice idea. So much nicer than the landfill it replaced. I’ll just light a few tiki torches to keep the skeeters away.

  GG - you are an inspiration. I need to tackle my closet as well.

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• 7. Lou  |  July 4th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

  Well, I just spent the last two hours clearing the side yard of dry grass ’cause DH thought that a stray firecracker might land in it (mind you, the side yard is 3 feet by maybe 8 feet, and the people who live next to us will neverk fire off firecrackers, not to mention that the dry grass was 1 foot high).

  Any way, I’m about to put “Independence Day” on the player and watch Will Smith kick alien butt. It’s not indepnedence day>/i> unless I see this movie.

  I’ve seen the Boston Pops orchestra and the fireworks on PBS before and have been enthralled - I love the show!!

  Looks like here in CA, not a lot of people have purchased fireworks due to limited budgets and concerns about fire. It should be peaceful here - just like at the lake. Thanks, LtL for that peacefull lake!!!

  Happy independence day everyone!!

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• 8. Lou  |  July 4th, 2008 at 9:24 pm

  Oops, I see where I goofed and didn’t do the close italics properly.

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• 9. Lou  |  July 4th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

  Yikes, not to mention the misspellings, etc. Perhaps I shouldn’t comment after hard work plus a glass of that California Chardonnay that Scope likes so much.

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• 10. GatorPerson  |  July 4th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

  Now Mr. Darcy knows the sound of explosives. And they petrify him. Make him shiver. Straighten his tail.

  Firing cannons during the 1812 Overture celebrates Russia throwing Napoleon and the French out. But I don’t think that’s the particular irony you see. Well, I wonder what Homeland Security is thinking letting explosives explode in DC. What is your irony?

  Thanks to Theresa I keep humming the Warm Woolen Mittens and Raindrops and stuff to go along with the kittens.

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• 11. CMS  |  July 4th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

  Didn’t the British burn down the White House during the War of 1812? Isn’t that McB’s irony?

  I too am enjoying the lake. Very peaceful. I might have a nap.

  Ooo look, string…channeling my inner kitten

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• 12. cbpen  |  July 4th, 2008 at 10:22 pm

  Oooomph!!! Mary. please look first the next time you run and jump into the hammock. I’ll just toddle off to the dock and watch the lightning bugs and the fireworks. The boat sailed without me, but that’s okay. It’s nice and peaceful on the dock.
  I think the irony is the War of 1812 when Dolley Madison had to save the White House stuff from the British when they invaded and burned Washington City (I am pretty sure that’s what it was called then. And the White House wasn’t the White House yet.) So firing cannons in DC to the tune of 1812 is ironic.
  The kittens are cute. I saw a batch at my friend’s house last week. Peeking out of the bushes all black and fuzzy. I don’t dare to awwww at them or her DH will stick some in my van.

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• 13. cbpen  |  July 4th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

  CMS great minds like ours…

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• 14. WapakGram  |  July 4th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

  So sorry to be late to the festivities. I was busy waterskiing on the lake….sorry about all the splashing BCB, when I get a couple of Coors Lights in, I get crazy.

  I want that Mama Cat- that is what my Mama cat looked like and I miss her.

  I’ll get rafts for floating tomorrow. My dad gave us little anchor thingys with hooks to hook our rafts onto so we can float around and not go out to sea. (He really did that for us at the Lake House after you know who fell asleep and ended up pretty far away…sigh…) Of course, all the rafts have beverage holders.

  Just got back from watching fireworks with DH. Beautiful weather. Nicest 4th in a while. Continue to carry on in true CB fashion.

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• 15. Mary  |  July 4th, 2008 at 11:11 pm

  ooops I’msorrypen… I saw that bagpipe leaning up against the hammock and thought there must be an M.I.K. around somewhere…

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• 16. McB  |  July 4th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

  Yes, there were things going on in 1812 which didn’t make the classical hit parade. So in a sense we celebrate two rumbles. I
  say that it didn’t make the classics, but there is a folk song ….mmemememe

  In 1814 we took a little trip
  along with colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississp
  we took a little bacon and we took a little beans
  and we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans

  Scored for banjo instead of cannon

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• 17. Scope Dope CherryBomb  |  July 4th, 2008 at 11:49 pm

  “Davey, Davey Crockett King of the Wild Frontier.” That is what Mcb’s song reminds me of. I have no idea why as it is a completely different song.

  I tuned in on my portable t.v. to watch the Boston Pops do the patriotic song medley sing-along and so I sung along. I heard Lou and a few of you joining in. Their fireworks were beautiful but not as nice as the ones over our lake.

  What a day. Ready for bed after this great picnic, swimming in the lake and fireworks. Ahhh the outdoors sure do make you’all sleepy, don’t it?

  Night all. Thanks for a wonderful picnic.

  Lovely little kittens. Dr. t.

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• 18. Mary  |  July 4th, 2008 at 11:51 pm

  I swear my neighbors are morons.
  Not the next-door neighbors, thankfully, but most of the rest.
  In California, they tend to set off fireworks in the street, so the sparks hopefully fall on the nice concrete. Here they’re setting off these rockets that shoot up 30 feet in the air (at least, I can see them over the rooftops) in their nice tree-filled backyards.
  The dog’s not fazed, but I’m starting to worry.

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• 19. Mary  |  July 5th, 2008 at 12:05 am

  Okay, make that 60 feet in the air. Sadly, I’m not kidding.

  Is this some kind of Keeping-up-with-the-Jones competition?

  Ever notice at Christmas how one household will put up Xmas lights and then by the end of the week everyone else follows suit? I think it’s a herd instinct at play: hell, if everyone else is doing it, I’ll do it higher and louder and with more bang.

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• 20. cbpen  |  July 5th, 2008 at 12:19 am

  Well, Mary, the bagpipes weren’t MINE. Draw your own conclusions.
  They do the fireworks here like that too. How they afford it I don’t know. I go out back by the neighbors cornfield and watch (got a lot mosquitoey tonight). The biggest bunch I could only hear. They went on with a constant bang and pop for an hour. But I think I saw the biggest of the next town over fireworks over the tree tops. Our town always does theirs on the 5th. Last year I could see quite a bit of ours from back there.
  You know the really nice thing about Cherry Bomb Lake?? No mosquitoes.

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• 21. cbpen  |  July 5th, 2008 at 12:19 am

  Well, Mary, the bagpipes weren’t MINE. Draw your own conclusions.
  They do the fireworks here like that too. How they afford it I don’t know. I go out back by the neighbors cornfield and watch (got a lot mosquitoey tonight). The biggest bunch I could only hear. They went on with a constant bang and pop for an hour. But I think I saw the biggest of the next town over fireworks over the tree tops. Our town always does theirs on the 5th. Last year I could see quite a bit of ours from back there.
  You know the really nice thing about Cherry Bomb Lake?? No mosquitoes. Oh, yeah, and lots of CBs.

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• 22. Pam  |  July 5th, 2008 at 12:23 am

  We got to see fireworks from Dh’s grandmother’s house. She lives about 5 miles from the park that the fireworks are at, up on a hill. Awesome view. Can’t hear the 1812 (also known as the William Tell Overture) though. I’m going to hang out at the lake tomorrow for some rest.

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• 23. cbpen  |  July 5th, 2008 at 12:24 am

  Well, that was weird. I guess I stuttered a little….

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• 24. Louis  |  July 5th, 2008 at 1:27 am

  Awwww!

  Quiet Fourth here..Put out the flag in the morning…lazy afternoon keeping cool…temp in low 90s.
  Had steaks and DW’s homemade potato salad…in the evening….yummy.

  We could hear the fireworks in the evening…could only see a brightening of the sky to west though.
  Spent the evening watching the movie “1776″ For whatever reason this is the first time that I saw the movie. DW and I have been listening to Cokie Roberts book “Ladies of Liberty”…made the movie even more relevant.
  Book is mostly excerpts from letters written during that time period. Dolly Madison…didn’t she save that picture of Washington from the “White House”?
  Movie ended in time to see most of the Boston Pops fireworks. Excellent as usual.

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