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Yea a stolen boat would be a hassle.

Riding? Absolutely, every day starting around 7am.

On the big night I watched most of Yankee Doodle Dandy on TCM, then scooted around as tens of thousands of people descended to the high school for fireworks. Loved seeing teens the in back of pickups screaming USA. The police did a great job of directing traffic, even I couldn't sneak through an open back road to get closer. One thing I kept thinking of, at least half are Dems. What are they celebrating? Certainly not the sparkle of independence. Dependence on and oppression of government? I suspect they don't think of their beliefs. Anyway, it was a good night. Weather's had a thunderstorm threat each day so I never got to play with the smoker which was annoying.

Glad it went good. Dems are like crows - they're attracted to anything shiny and sparkly. It didn't matter what the celebration was about. They were there for the spectacle - it keeps their itty-bitty widdle brain stems functioning. Our weather has been befouled by these mid-afternoon storms that blow up and wreak havoc. Wind, lightning, torrential rain. I finally got the front of the yard trimmed with the push mower before yesterday's monsoon, and got about a third of the yard cut with the riding mower this evening. The heat index has been pushing triple digits, and between that and that muscle I tore (which still twinges after five weeks), the yard was/is in dire need of attention. I see a couple more days of labor to really get it up to snuff. We almost got hit by a good one a couple hours ago - we got a few big dollops of rain and some pretty impressive wind, but it just glanced off us. It's downright nice out there right now. I'm baking some Rufus Teague Whiskey-Maple BBQ chicken tonight - I thought about getting the smoker going, but that would be another half hour just to uncover it, clean the grates and charcoal box, and get it fired up, and I didn't soak any wood chips. Besides, that would almost certainly guarantee that we'd get a downpour. LOL I've tended to many a grill-out in an unexpected rain. I gotta go shower and make a beer run, then get a can of gas for all the sundry power equipment I'm using. I can hear her now: "Are we gonna eat at 10 PM AGAIN???"