Today we celebrate not the day, but the anniversary of our Independence from an oppressive and distant monarchy. The irony of our current government’s policies on taxation and control isn’t lost on me. Celebrate what we had, and could have again.
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Supposed to be partly sunny and hot today at the BOL. The local radio station said so. High of 94F and low of 74F. It was cooler than that when I went to bed. Several storm cells moved through the area while I was driving up and cooled everything down. The day that started hot and humid in Houston, ended up cool and wet at the BOL.
I did finally make it to the BOL yesterday. I got a bit of a slow start, but did get loaded up and on my way. Then it took 5 hours to do the ~2 hour trip. Traffic was nuts. At one point I moved 6 miles in one hour. And it was raining the whole time. The audiobook I picked up to pass the time turned out to be a woke piece of crep, unbelievable in its banality. It wasn’t the witchcraft fantasy the title suggested, but only a NYFC woke liberal recounting his life, and read by the author in the most ponderous way possible. He read every sentence as a series of phrases with a pause in between each one. Picture a cut rate, knock off David Sedaris and you will be close. I listened for over an hour because I couldn’t really believe it could be that bad. It was.
Today, I’ll mow when it dries out a bit. And we’ll put up the bunting and flags, if it isn’t raining. I may even put up some colored lights around the dock if I have time and the inclination. I’ll probably unload the truck too, although that can wait if I have Holiday stuff to do. Later we’ll eat, maybe be part of the boat parade, then in the evening we’ll have a front row seat to a really good fireworks show. Some people were testing stuff last night. The semi-pro stuff is really good.
We’re gonna turn money into noise and smoke!
It’s all part of being in the community. Stack up some community, you’ll need it.
nick