Ever since we moved to this place where it gets so hot in the summer, our 4th of Julys have been similar to any other day of the week. In other words, rather boring.
It's just too dang hot to go outside and barbecue and while there are some outdoor festivities this weekend, at least I think there are, it's just too dang hot! I do think that Tehachapi does something involving hot dogs today but the last time we went to a festival in Tehachapi in the summer time I got kind of sick feeling wandering about the streets (because it was too hot!) and really didn't enjoy myself at all. Plus, Keith is not home today to go do anything anyway.
I think the theme today is too hot.
I got to see Keith for just a few minutes yesterday, he got in early early in the morning and was sound asleep when I got up. He spent all day sleeping only to have to catch another train in the late afternoon. I had checked on him a few times throughout the day, hoping any noise I was making didn't disturb him, and apparently it didn't. So, the little bit of time in between him getting his call to work and going out the door was about all I saw of him in not asleep mode.
I'm going to try and get the yard work done this morning before it gets too hot (there's that theme again), I have been watering the front yard every morning in the hopes that the grass seed I scattered will eventually grow and we won't have a huge brown spot in the middle of the yard. It might be my imagination but it does look like the brown spot is getting smaller. I'm about ready to go buy some green spray paint and spray it like that stuff they used to sell for men's bald spots, that instant hair in a can. Instant grass in a can!
So, for those of you who actually have something fun planned for the day, I hope you enjoy yourselves and it's not too hot where you are.
Showing posts with label 4th of july. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 4th of july. Show all posts
Friday, July 4, 2014
Monday, July 6, 2009
If You Are Going To Have a 4th of July Barbecue
At least have some food for your guests!
On Saturday Keith was busy all day working on the baseboards for the hallway, measuring, cutting, nailing, running back and forth to Home Depot for putty, nails, and other odds and ends, and going in and out from the house to the garage where his big saw is. That was about the extent of our plans for the day until our neighbors invited us to come over for a 4th of July barbecue complete with fireworks. Sounded good, right, and do we need to bring anything and what time? Oh, just whenever, and bring whatever you want.
So, the day goes by and we see tables and the barbecue set up in the driveway, but not much other activity, so we keep doing what we're doing and keeping an eye out for hamburgers being slapped on the grill. Along about 7 pm we're getting really hungry and there's no sign of food anywhere and no sign of the husband next door who's supposed to be grilling the food. Well, it turns out he spent the afternoon drinking at the bar with his buddies, and the Mrs. is getting a lot annoyed and I'm sure all the kids are getting pretty hungry too. We are absolutely starving, so we sneak off to go get a hamburger at Carl's Jr on the pretext of going to get beer and potato chips for the barbecue.
Finally the party gets started, with other neighbors coming over, beers being opened, chairs set up on the lawn, the kids clamoring for the fireworks to start, but still no food. Just the potato chips that we brought and coolers full of beer. Beer is filling, though, right? But I'm still wondering if anyone fed the kids.
So, fireworks get played with and beers get drunk, and along about 9 pm the Mr. finally starts the barbecue, but it's too hot for any food to get put on it. The food finally gets thrown on the grill about 10pm, and all I can say is I hope the rest of the guests went to Carl's Jr, too, before coming to the party.
The fireworks were fun, but drinking parties are just not that much fun when you really don't drink anymore, and you don't really know these people all that well, and everyone is at least a decade or two younger than you, and everyone is getting pretty drunk, and drunken conversations are not that interesting unless you're drunk, too. So, after the food finally went on the grill and it looked like the fireworks were over with, I was getting pretty bored and went home, leaving Keith to drink beer with the rest of them. He ended up staying until about 1 am, the host finished cooking whatever it was he was cooking and then had to go inside and pass out, the kids were high on firework fumes and sodas, and who knows if they ever got anything to eat, but I guess everyone had fun by the looks of the trashed yard and the huge piles of empty beer cans the next morning.
Keith didn't feel all that good on Sunday (hmm, could it have been the many many beers he drank?) so the baseboards are still not finished.
So, if you got invited to a 4th of July barbecue, I hope you actually got to eat something!
On Saturday Keith was busy all day working on the baseboards for the hallway, measuring, cutting, nailing, running back and forth to Home Depot for putty, nails, and other odds and ends, and going in and out from the house to the garage where his big saw is. That was about the extent of our plans for the day until our neighbors invited us to come over for a 4th of July barbecue complete with fireworks. Sounded good, right, and do we need to bring anything and what time? Oh, just whenever, and bring whatever you want.
So, the day goes by and we see tables and the barbecue set up in the driveway, but not much other activity, so we keep doing what we're doing and keeping an eye out for hamburgers being slapped on the grill. Along about 7 pm we're getting really hungry and there's no sign of food anywhere and no sign of the husband next door who's supposed to be grilling the food. Well, it turns out he spent the afternoon drinking at the bar with his buddies, and the Mrs. is getting a lot annoyed and I'm sure all the kids are getting pretty hungry too. We are absolutely starving, so we sneak off to go get a hamburger at Carl's Jr on the pretext of going to get beer and potato chips for the barbecue.
Finally the party gets started, with other neighbors coming over, beers being opened, chairs set up on the lawn, the kids clamoring for the fireworks to start, but still no food. Just the potato chips that we brought and coolers full of beer. Beer is filling, though, right? But I'm still wondering if anyone fed the kids.
So, fireworks get played with and beers get drunk, and along about 9 pm the Mr. finally starts the barbecue, but it's too hot for any food to get put on it. The food finally gets thrown on the grill about 10pm, and all I can say is I hope the rest of the guests went to Carl's Jr, too, before coming to the party.
The fireworks were fun, but drinking parties are just not that much fun when you really don't drink anymore, and you don't really know these people all that well, and everyone is at least a decade or two younger than you, and everyone is getting pretty drunk, and drunken conversations are not that interesting unless you're drunk, too. So, after the food finally went on the grill and it looked like the fireworks were over with, I was getting pretty bored and went home, leaving Keith to drink beer with the rest of them. He ended up staying until about 1 am, the host finished cooking whatever it was he was cooking and then had to go inside and pass out, the kids were high on firework fumes and sodas, and who knows if they ever got anything to eat, but I guess everyone had fun by the looks of the trashed yard and the huge piles of empty beer cans the next morning.
Keith didn't feel all that good on Sunday (hmm, could it have been the many many beers he drank?) so the baseboards are still not finished.
So, if you got invited to a 4th of July barbecue, I hope you actually got to eat something!
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Sort of Quiet Fourth
Our 4th was not much to write home about. We decided to go see a movie, which we haven't done in I don't even remember the last time we were in a movie theatre. We decided on Hancock and went to the first showing of the day at 10 am thinking that it wouldn't be very crowded. HA! We had to sit in the very front where you end up with a crick in your neck and a feeling of nausea from being too close to the screen. There were a few seats up top but I refuse to try and crawl over people to get into a seat, mainly because I know I'll have to pee at least once during the movie and don't want to have to crawl back over said people. Hmm, maybe this is where those Depends might come in handy.
I couldn't believe the price of admission-it's up to $10.00 now for regular admission. No wonder we just wait until everything comes out on dvd!
The movie was entertaining and enjoyable even though I did have to get up to go pee and missed a few minutes. That's why I like watching them at home, you can pause for potty breaks.
So, after the movie we stopped for a sandwich and stopped at Target to get some bubble wrap and tape and stopped at Home Depot to get a shop vac for my studio so I'll quit sucking up things that should't be sucked up in the regular vacuum-like bits of metal and solder.
The rest of the day was uneventful-I messed around on the computer and packed some orders. Keith broke out the scotch and hacked up some trees in the back yard, then promptly fell asleep after dinner. The loud party and fireworks across the street didn't seem to bother his nap any. The cats were all like 'WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON OUT THERE!?!' Buddy hid in the garage a few times.
So, another 4th come and gone, now we've got the rest of the hot hot summer to look forward to.
I couldn't believe the price of admission-it's up to $10.00 now for regular admission. No wonder we just wait until everything comes out on dvd!
The movie was entertaining and enjoyable even though I did have to get up to go pee and missed a few minutes. That's why I like watching them at home, you can pause for potty breaks.
So, after the movie we stopped for a sandwich and stopped at Target to get some bubble wrap and tape and stopped at Home Depot to get a shop vac for my studio so I'll quit sucking up things that should't be sucked up in the regular vacuum-like bits of metal and solder.
The rest of the day was uneventful-I messed around on the computer and packed some orders. Keith broke out the scotch and hacked up some trees in the back yard, then promptly fell asleep after dinner. The loud party and fireworks across the street didn't seem to bother his nap any. The cats were all like 'WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON OUT THERE!?!' Buddy hid in the garage a few times.
So, another 4th come and gone, now we've got the rest of the hot hot summer to look forward to.
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