The 4th in the Midwest

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

And here in Maine we will spend the day fishing. Just got back from
the dam. Some nice fish on dries as well as small nymphs. Lunch in
hamburgers, hotdogs, potato salad, cole slaw and watermellon. Won't
do much more fishing because the water is so high.

Cook out tonight with a big fire on the small beach next to the dock.
Fireworks at 9 (Whit has brought in a friend to do them).

One bad thing, however: most of us are growing gills from all the
rain. Bad storms passed over last evening with t-storms for about two
hours and rain all night. Made for good sleeping, but the lawn is a
swamp.

Better than being in Taxachusetts, that's for sure!

Dave

Dave LaCourse wrote:
And here in Maine we will spend the day fishing. ...
Won't
do much more fishing because the water is so high.

Amazing how one can spend the day fishing without doing
much fishing because of high water. ;-)

Started drizzling rain during the night here in Urbana
and the rain continues. The pre-parade 5K run and the
parade itself will proceed according to schedule during
the rain unless there's lightning. If there's lightning
everything gets canceled.

Me and the pup went to the river yesterday but the biggest
hatches of the summer, the rubber hatch and the aluminum
hatch, (inner tubers and canoeists ;-), were out in full
force so I didn't even string up the fly pole.

--
Ken Fortenberry

On Jul 4, 11:26*am, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:
Dave LaCourse wrote:
And here in Maine we will spend the day fishing. ...
Won't
do much more fishing because the water is so high.

Amazing how one can spend the day fishing without doing
much fishing because of high water. ;-)

Started drizzling rain during the night here in Urbana
and the rain continues.

I have seen fireworks all over the world, urban and rural, but the
best I ever saw was 4JUL71 in (hard to believe) Rantoul Illinois. Was
a student at Chanute AFB (now closed). The little burg of RT put on
the greatest show ever.

Bought a canoe at the Sears store while there so I could poke around
at Kickapoo with a 6ft fiberglass Phillipson 5 wt.

cheers

oz, living on memories