# Happy Fourth of July - an Independent MMP
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Tags:** mmp
**Created:** [July 4, 2011, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801 "2011-07-04T10:16:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/1 "2011-07-04T10:16:44Z")
In the spirit of American Independence Day, you are FREE to post whatever you want. As opposed to, well, you know, our usual MMPs where there’s occasionally a shred of a topic.
So be safe with your fireworks, don’t drink and drive, and feel FREE to say whatever!
😃
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/2 "2011-07-04T10:29:25Z")
First?
ETA: Yes! First!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. _YAWN_ 'Tis 74 Amurrkin out and hyoooooooomid with a predicted high of 97. This is what Fourth of July weather is down in south Jawja.
Today shall consist of hangin’ out at the pool, drinkin’ beerverages, snackin’ and consuming burgers, **N.O.T.** sallit, corn on the cob and watermelon. MMMMMM…
**HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!**
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/3 "2011-07-04T10:33:15Z")
**swampy** , you’ll always be first in my heart…
😛
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/4 "2011-07-04T10:35:19Z")
Awww I got hearted by **MOOOOOM**! 😛
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/5 "2011-07-04T10:47:13Z")
Update from last thread - guys are coming to look at the cabinets at 9 this morning. Yay! Hope they take 'em - \*\*FCD \*\*is itching to start tearing the basement apart! In fact, he’s already torn out some of the sheetrock in the bedroom, looking for the 3rd support beam (he found it.)
I’ve got 2 other computers to check for personal data. I have a coworker who rebuilds them - I may offer them to him in exchange for him removing my data to a disk. We’ll see come tomorrow.
Breakfast has been ingested (leftover pizza) and caffeination is in progress. We had rain last night and t-boomers, so the domestic boomers were pretty much non-existent. No clue if tonight’s fireworks will be rained out, but we weren’t planning to attend, so there’s that.
\*\*donkeybear \*\*- I agree with you about sewing together pieces to make an afghan. I’ve done it, but I don’t like to. Nor do I like sewing strips together, but those patterns can usually be modified to be done as a single entity. Actually, I’m doing hats and scarves right now, but I’m getting bored and I’m just on hat #3, so I expect to start an afghan again soon.
And I think that brings me up to date. Except for the stuff I’ve forgotten…
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### Author:  [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/6 "2011-07-04T11:29:11Z")
I guess this a good opportunity to dip my toes into the MMP waters.
If I can drag my husband away from the stupid server he’s rebuilding, I have two fences to take down today and bush-hogging to do before the tree guy comes Weds to remove 2 dead, 2 dying, and 1 [already](http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/267882_1983421356789_1580907534_2008657_4075833_n.jpg) [fallen](http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/261356_1983419876752_1580907534_2008656_70707_n.jpg)tree. (Missed the house and the wires by about 4 inches.)
Then this week is going to be crazy as I get ready for our vacation. Leaving 7 horses and 9 cats (well, 8, the epileptic one is coming with us) and the house for someone else to look after for 14 days takes some streamlining, not to mention all the crap I need to gather that needs to go with us. [But it’s worth it](http://jenk.org/G3.bin/var/resizes/swj_pics/DCP01573.jpg?m=1303314374)🙂
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/7 "2011-07-04T12:02:11Z")
Dang, **saje** , that tree did come a little close! And you reminded me that In need to call the tree guy about taking down 3 or 4 trees that we need to go away. One is a triple-trunk beast that’s close to the house and I think it’s dying. There’s a smaller one near it that I want to go to make for easier parking. Plus 2 farther out in the yard that get in my way when I mow - one is dying anyway and the other is not a nice tree - plus it’s blocking the dogwood.
Your vacation spot looks loverly - where is it?
Time for me to get out of the robe and into clothes…
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### Author:  [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/8 "2011-07-04T12:31:25Z")
The Catskills in NY, about an hour from Kingston. My favorite place in the world, and worth the 14 hr drive!
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/9 "2011-07-04T12:35:00Z")
My right ear won’t pop and it’s driving me nuts.
Happy Fourth, Everyone!
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### Author:  [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/10 "2011-07-04T12:55:48Z")
[Drive by]
Happy 4th of July to all the Americans! (I guess that technically includes me :dubious:\*\*)
Hey, they’re saying the US is going downhill – but I hope _I_ look this good when I’m 235
> [@](#):
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years old! 😃
Everybody else – hi! and
_BeepBeep!! Zooooooooom_
[/Driveby]
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/11 "2011-07-04T13:01:02Z")
I had a dream last night that I posted something in the MMP and damn if I can’t remember a thing about it. It might have been part of the dream in which I was in the garden at the House I Grew Up In and squashes and eggplants were growing on trees. 😕
Culinary Boy got up at 3 this morning to get ready to go to South By-God Kakalak (or, as my neighbor’s friend kept saying yesterday, “Sou Car’lina.”) I drove him two blocks to the restaurant parking lot where he caught his ride at 4:30. I’m going to miss him for the next couple of weeks :(, even though he got on my last raw bleeding nerve yesterday. :mad: Ah, relationships.
Katy Cat is confused. One of Her People had A SUITCASE this morning. When I came home and went back to bed, she was crouched outside my door with a worried look on her face. I have a feeling Computer Boy is going to have a furry little shadow for the rest of the day. Katy doesn’t like one of Her Boys not being around.
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/12 "2011-07-04T13:03:49Z")
> [@Foxes, bats and lightning bugs: a walky MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foxes-bats-and-lightning-bugs-a-walky-mmp/586987/172):
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> I did sorta party, I got dragged to a minor league game. I got separated, freaked out, and it took four innings to come back to normal. I hate prednisone.
I didn’t see this yesterday, but you have my sympathy on the prednisone. I was on that stuff back when I was first diagnosed with ITP. Hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it.
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/13 "2011-07-04T13:36:21Z")
**saje** - gorgeous view - If that were my vacation spot, I’d never leave.
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/14 "2011-07-04T13:50:36Z")
I got to play with my squid this morning. As before, I wound up feeding the crabs.
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/15 "2011-07-04T13:50:53Z")
All ready to head out to the pool! Gonna drag the cooler out, sunscreen up and fall into my float and go AHHHHHHHHHHH! 😃
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### Author:  [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/16 "2011-07-04T15:00:31Z")
Welcome, **saje**! What a beautiful vacation spot!
**Bobbio** , what are you trying to do to that squid? :eek: :eek: :eek: (Using it as bait?)
Up. Have breakfasted, mended a sweater and put some clothes away. Am going out into the garden for a bit before going to the [Doo Dah Parade](http://doodahparade.com/).
Dunno what we’ll do afterward.
ETA: Forgot to say: **Happy 4th, all!**
Hugs.
GT
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/17 "2011-07-04T15:30:20Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#):
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> **Bobbio** , what are you trying to do to that squid? :eek: :eek: :eek: (Using it as bait?)
Well, [yeah](http://www.virginiaoutdoors.com/article/more/2545)…
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### Author:  [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/18 "2011-07-04T15:31:26Z")
Good morning everyone and Happy Independence Day.
That looks like a beautiful spot, \*\*saje. \*\* I wouldn’t want to leave it either.
I’ve already got the eggs boiled and the potatoes are boiling so I can make tater salad later today. I’ve got to run the vacuum and wash the floor and then I’m done.
I’m not sure when my daughter and the rest of her entourage are showing up today. Hopefully, not too early.
I need to get my second tankard of coffee now.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/19 "2011-07-04T15:35:59Z")
Cabinets, etc, are sold! YAY! They’re coming back to get them on Weds evening.
I’ve been digging thru 2 old computers looking for stuff worth saving before I give the machines away. Unfortunately, one of them doesn’t have a connector for a CRT monitor, so I’m not sure what I’m going to do. _grrrrr_
I’ve done some laundry and tidied the kitchen a bit, plus sorted a bit more stuff from the basement. I found a box of CDs - I’d forgotten we had them! I need to start loading the trash into the truck. And other stuff into my car so I can give it away at work. It’s amazing the stuff I’ve toted around for years for no apparent reason…
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### Author:  [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-fourth-of-july-an-independent-mmp/587801/20 "2011-07-04T15:52:17Z")
Happy 4th everyone!
This is the least favorite holiday for my cats. The windows will be closed, blinds drawn and the a/c on all day to keep the noise down inside. I promise I’ll find some poo on the floor somewhere later…
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