On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 21:08:18 -0700 (PDT), Frank Reid © 2008
wrote:

Night before the 4th is family night. That's where you use the
fireworks you bought in Missouri and South Dakota. You add in the
local fireworks which are almost as good. Throw into the mix large
quantities of you favorite malted beverage, a severe thunderstorm,
Kansas City AND Carolina BBQ, German potato salad, multple pitchers of
sangria, some furniture polish shots and wooo doggies, we're havin'
some fun now.
Frank Reid

We had a good Fourth down our way, too...went out to Horn Island (one of our
barrier islands in/on the Gulf Islands Nat'l Seashore) with about 150 or so of
our closest friends (IOW, we knew about 50 of them, and about 100 were tagalongs
- which is always fine...if they look good in a bikini...)...in about 25 boats,
and boiled the 100-plus pounds of shrimp we caught Friday, along with about 10
dozen crabs, and another hundred or so pounds of grillables, from red snapper to
ribs and brisket, along with fruit-n-veggies, etc., and enough liquid
refreshment to open a nightclub...we had a 120 quart-er and 4 grills going,
along with the aforementioned 150 people...Sunday morning was interesting, but
thus far, no hospitalizations reported, and AFAIK, no one needed bail thrown, so
we consider it a success...

Happy belated Fourth,
R
....and down here, fireworks seem to be handed out, so it was something akin to
WW3 all over the coast...