Shehawk (original poster member #68741) posted at 1:38 PM on Thursday, July 4th, 2024
Happy American 4th of July!
I hope you have a great one!
Lots of food, family, friends.
I know I will. What started out as a couple of friends having lunch turned out to be a bunch of people coming over. So I am up early prepping food (did some yesterday too).
Prepped about 10 pounds of fruit and veggies! Have an instacart order on the way with more pizzas and chicken and all the stuff I inevitably forgot at my quick trip to the grocery store :)
I am basically fixing 3 different types of meals because of various people’s dietary needs and preferences…
It looks like rain! But at least it won’t be so scorching hot!
"It's a slow fade...when you give yourself away" so don't do it!
Tred ( member #34086) posted at 2:29 PM on Thursday, July 4th, 2024
Happy Independence Day to everyone! We usually have a get together with the 6 other houses in our remote neck of the woods here in rural Virginia, but need to keep an eye on the weather. Supposed to be close to 98 degree feels like weather with possible storms, so that could impact the annual hot dog cookout on the tailgate grill in the court. We usually set off fireworks, but with the lack of rain and drought conditions we may back off this year. It's a bummer, as I've got almost $500 of really good artillery in the garage ready to go, but we can at least do the fountains and smaller pyrotechnics.
Hope everyone has a safe, fun filled 4th!
Married: 27 years (14 @JFO) D-Day: 11/09/11"Ohhhhh...shut up Tred!" - NOT the official SI motto (DS)
Shehawk (original poster member #68741) posted at 9:56 PM on Thursday, July 4th, 2024
Virginia too and our 3rd floor apartment is flooding right now as we speak.. water running down the wall it’s raining so hard
Happy 4th ugh
"It's a slow fade...when you give yourself away" so don't do it!
Superesse ( member #60731) posted at 2:38 AM on Friday, July 5th, 2024
Blessed Independence Day All! Got a sweet quarter inch rain this morning, saved the local crops here in the Valley of Virginia. So what if it's 100% humid, right? D.C. is under a boil water alert due to low flows in the river.....
leafields ( Guide #63517) posted at 5:47 AM on Friday, July 5th, 2024
Had a great BBQ/birthday party with family.
Now, the PTSD/PISD is kicking in. Balloons for the bday party popped in the house wasn't optimal. Now, the bombs bursting in air are almost more than I can take. Trying to calm my nervous system.
BW M 34years, Dday 1: March 2018, Dday 2: August 2019, D final 2/25/21
Shehawk (original poster member #68741) posted at 10:21 PM on Friday, July 5th, 2024
Leafields
Probably will get the topic moved to general if I say this but I can relate to your feelings about loud noises etc
Sending ((virtual hugs))
"It's a slow fade...when you give yourself away" so don't do it!
Superesse ( member #60731) posted at 11:05 PM on Friday, July 5th, 2024
No, loud noise sensitivity is a real thing. I had been down with an abscessing tooth and taking antibiotics all week. We went to a watch party on June 29th (last Saturday) and it was all Boom Boom Boom to start off with, and I almost started shaking! Because my system had been under attack for a week, I felt very vulnerable.
Shehawk (original poster member #68741) posted at 7:29 PM on Monday, August 12th, 2024
Hope that tooth area is doing better superesse
"It's a slow fade...when you give yourself away" so don't do it!
Shehawk (original poster member #68741) posted at 7:42 PM on Monday, August 12th, 2024
Oops double post
[This message edited by Shehawk at 7:42 PM, Monday, August 12th]
"It's a slow fade...when you give yourself away" so don't do it!
Superesse ( member #60731) posted at 8:55 PM on Monday, August 12th, 2024
Aw Shehawk, thanks, that was sweet of you. Yeah I hope things are healing up after I got one of the upper premolars retreated and took another round of Augmentin. It was a long, slow climb out, still having nasal symptoms which I learned are related to this (described in my other post about teeth!) The endodontist said they see this pretty often but my dentist apparently hadn't! It's so crazy with all the other things we have to keep track of, right?
Hope your summer has been going great. We finally got 4 inches of desperately needed rain out of Hurricane Debbie.
