{"id":11957,"date":"2025-07-03T04:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=11957"},"modified":"2025-07-03T00:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T04:45:54","slug":"thur-july-3-2025-headed-to-the-bol-to-celebrate-and-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/07\/03\/thur-july-3-2025-headed-to-the-bol-to-celebrate-and-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Thur. July 3, 2025 &#8211; headed to the BOL to celebrate&#8230; and work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and clear, it&#8217;s what I&#8217;m hoping for anyway.   Well, not as hot, but definitely clear.   The national forecast still shows the Houston area and north as possible thunderstorms.   I&#8217;m counting on the very local nature of our weather to rain on someone else&#8217;s parade. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I did some auction stuff, then went out to get my pickups done.   Took a few hours and a lot of driving but I filled the bed of the pickup truck.  Most of the stuff was for the BOL, with the rest split between household and kids.  I unloaded the stuff staying in Houston, but just tarped the truck and went to bed rather than finish loading up and driving late at night.     W and the kids did head up.  <\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ll do a last couple of things here, then finish loading up, and head out.  I&#8217;ve got patriotic decorations to put up, and a lawn to mow.  The 4th is a big holiday on the lake, with a boat parade and a really good fireworks show.  Lots of people come up for the long weekend.   And a lot of them end up on the water near my dock because it&#8217;s a good place to watch the fireworks from.  That&#8217;s a bit of extra motivation for me to decorate, not that I need much motivation.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all part of fitting into the community and becoming a welcome and valued member.   And I enjoy the unabashed patriotism.<\/p>\n<p>Stack up some freedom.  And improve your relationships.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and clear, it&#8217;s what I&#8217;m hoping for anyway.   Well, not as hot, but definitely clear.   The national forecast still shows the Houston area and north as possible thunderstorms.   I&#8217;m counting on the very local nature of our weather to rain on someone else&#8217;s parade. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I did some auction stuff, then went out to get my pickups done.   Took a few hours and a lot of driving but I filled the bed of the pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/07\/03\/thur-july-3-2025-headed-to-the-bol-to-celebrate-and-work\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thur. July 3, 2025 &#8211; headed to the BOL to celebrate&#8230; and work &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,83,96,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-lakehouse","category-march-to-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11958,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957\/revisions\/11958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}