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Independence Day Traditions: (reply)

Slow Hand — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:48:38 +0000

No real traditions; we’re usually down at the river with friends and family. Staying home this weekend and will be headed down Wednesday after work.

I will be smoking some pork and some stuffed jalapeños this Independence Day. May sneak
Away to the close range and do some shooting with the boys.

Funny, I s only ever heard that song from Robert Earl Keen and assumed it was his!

I WILL SHOOT THE THUNDER MUG! (nm) (reply)

JimT — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:43:52 +0000

This goomer sings...... (reply)

RayLee — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 12:35:54 +0000

when marshall crenshaw is otherwise busy. Babjak's fingers still work though he is retired from the biz. and is a bank loan officer.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X_wEzEOiSMA&pp=ygUWc21pdGhlcmVlbnMgZnJvbnQgeWFyZA%3D%3D

Anvil shoot... (reply)

pokynojoe — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 12:30:06 +0000

Every 4th at the Museum of Appalachia

Independence Day Traditions: (reply)

BobM — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 11:39:04 +0000

I have a 10/22 that now has a red/white/blue laminate stock that I like to shoot on Independence Day. I’ll probably also shoot my 1911.

Had to look-up..... (reply)

A K Church — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 10:11:56 +0000

Pat DiNizio passed. I think 5-6 years ago. I remember being sad when I heard.

Also found out he'd run for Governor of New Jersey. Well, I sure respected him more than a lot of successful nominees for the job. Like, say, Woodrow Wilson. Or Jim McGreevey.

I still get in the mood to hear "Blood and Roses" fairly often.

Yours was not the only grass fire I started (reply)

A K Church — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 09:59:34 +0000

That is the truth.

We also lit off 5 rds .30-06 blanks through a sewer pipe bore US M1917. Stroke o' midnight. As I recall, the cops were around about 2 minutes after we got back indoors.

Had to look-up..... (reply)

RayLee — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 09:08:30 +0000

that song on the "toob" only to discover I know it.

Med.Cruise-87 on a tin can in uncle ronnie's yacht club. Egregiously seasick. R. Division was shorthanded so d.c.central & sounding watches were 6hrs. on 6 off. After 1800hrs. only in d.c. central and the mess decks was the smoking lamp lit so there I was stuck in a 160 sq. ft. space that was always blue with smoke. It was stiffling/nauseating.

The nominal quasi-punkers from the bedroom communities surrounding "the city" and some actually from the boroughs played r.e.m. and the smithereens and X and elvis costello over and over and over and were angry at all mentioned for "going commercial".

A few years ago I heard the smithereens ode to the cigarette on a ride on a bumpy winding road and had flashbacks to the stormy north atlantic and thought I was going to hurl.

This kid does a dinizzio medley better than the 'reens ever did.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OwJPesIkcj4&pp=ygUgVGhlIGNsYXNzaWMgcm9jayBraWQgc21pdG...

Oh, b.t.w.,I hope to use the background booms of the fourth as cover to empty all of the percussion revolvers that I have unwisely loaded over the last year.

Yours was not the only grass fire I started (reply)

Miles — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 08:18:38 +0000

AK can attest we also set a neighbor's yard alight one New Year's eve.

We used to set the pasture on fire at the J Bar T ... (reply)

A K Church — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 02:07:26 +0000

With the gracious assistance of Miles, a grass fire starter, who is, as the Army now says "of excellence".

We used to set the pasture on fire at the J Bar T ... (reply)

JimT — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 01:52:14 +0000

usually it was John's fault.

Independence Day Traditions:

A K Church — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:27:17 +0000

If possible shoot on Independence Day itself. I did this uninterruptedly from 1977 to 2011. And ever year 2013 to presumably this year.

Listen to "4th of July" by the L A punk band X.

"on the stairs I smoke a cigarette alone
Mexican kids are shootin' fireworks below"

Song with a great feel for time and place.

Watch "Sergeant York" in b&w.

Your traditions?