Happy 4th of July

[coachg]

Hope you have a great day ! Went to the parade at the local town , Henagar Al . Use to be called the potato festival, when there were several local growers still farming on Sand Mtn . Only 1 or 2 still growing taters . Ate lunch with my son in law's family . Fireworks tonight but I'll probably skip those . My wife has shingles and is down for the count so I'll stay home and play nurse to my seeetheart . Giving a good chance for rain tomorrow so praying we get it !

 

[Lucky]

Sounds like a good day to me. Hope your wife gets over the shingles soon. I hear they are really painful. A friend of mine got them twice, once right before knee sugery and once right before wrist surgery. It was a funny not funny situation .

Happy 4th to everyone and hope y'all have a good day. We had the grandkids this week and took them back today.

 

[coachg]

 

[Dave]

Going to a friends this evening for a BBQ. It is not until 7:00 and I know that they are all going to a local rodeo during the day. We aren't going to that rodeo. Been there twice. I have been to 3 goat ropings and a county fair so I can tell you from experience that it is the slowest run rodeo in the world.

 

[CowboyRam]

I baled hay on the Fourth, and also the night before. 349 3x4 bales.

 

[greybeard]

On July 3rd, I had mowed the lawn, which is harder on me than it might sound, since I live on a hillside and have to use a walk behind mower..way too steep to use a rider or zero turn. Then did all the weedeatin and edging so I was worn out, but had stuff to do, obligations for the 4th.
My (and wife's) 4th of July began very early in the darkness. After finishing preparations around 1am, we finally went to bed for a little while, then back up at 4:30 am to roll up a few dozen breakfast burritos, load bunting and other stuff, a cooler of ice and take off for the drive over to Belton by dawn's early light to help get the Louis W. Qualls Marine Corps League Texas Detachment #1249 4th of July parade entry ready. My right hip was killing me from the previous day's mowing ops and mostly I just sat and watched as the rest decorated the trailer and our lead vehicle. We're a small group as this is a US Army area being so close to Fort Hood and not many Marine veterans here but we're used to being The Few The Proud. The ride thru Belton on the trailer was great, with throngs of people yelling and applauding as we passed. The loudspeakers placed along the way announced us as "Not as lean, not as mean but still US Marines" and this state loves their Marine Corps, even in an Army town.
The TV stations were there and live streamed the whole parade. It's on youtube. A big parade, with over 200 entries and the crowd was estimated at over 30,000.










Or, you can just view us on the parade route at:
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Then wife and I went over to Black Bear Diner for lunch, then we all attended the 4th of July ceremony at Belton VFW, since that organization allows us to use their facility for our monthly meetings. By the time wife and I got back to Copperas Cove, we were flat tuckered out, but it was a great 4th of July.

 

[Dave]

We went to a friends house for a BBQ and visit with friends. Stayed and watched the fireworks in Haines from their yard which is about 3 or 4 miles from Haines. After the fireworks we gathered up our stuff and left. When we got to highway 30 I was shocked. I had never thought about this. The entire town of Baker must have emptied out and went to Haines to watch the show. It was a solid line of traffic headed back to Baker. After about 200 cars we caught an opening. Once we got to the freeway we had it to our self. In the 25 miles I saw one other car east bound on the freeway.