Folks, I’m looking at another week of intermittent disappearances. Once again I’ll be reading from my phone, but I can’t predict how often I’ll be able to post. (Everything is fine. Just don’t want to seem rude with my very slow replies. )

mALX, those are some phunny phourth of July stories!

Grits, thanks for the warning. I have visions of you as a secret spy, subject to disappearances as you skulk around secret enemy installations, alternatively snapping pictures and reading fanfics with your cel phone.

Grits, I want you to remain calm. If the crawdads have you, just text the word "jambalaya".

No, wait- that's kind of a long "safe word" to have to text.

Let me think... man, I never do well in these "Abducted by crustaceans during a family outing" situations.

@mALX- Your fireworks experience sounds lot like ours. I used to do a big show (Sevier County- so no legal issues) with a friend. Until someone built a house on what had been the vacant lot next door.

That year, we did our usual bang-up job and were feeling pretty good until a deputy knocked on the door at 7 the next morning.

"Your neighbor says you all shot of A LOT of fireworks last night and some of them hit his house. He would like you to come and pick them up."

Thus ended the days of the "Treydog and Friend July 4th Extravaganza- with bonus summer punch" (ingredients below). The good news is- as more houses have been built, apparently most of the new residents are pyromaniacs. So, even though I don't even send one bottle rocket on its erratic way- the area looks like a war zone, usually starting the weekend BEFORE the 4th and running into the week after.

Punch (non-alcoholic):

One large can pineapple juice
One quart ginger ale (or Sprite if you prefer)
2 packets lime Koolaid

If anyone wants to add a... little something else- my motto is "What goes in your drink is your business." (That includes stray mosquitos, crawdads, remains of fireworks falling from the sky....)

Re: fireworks - haha, that story is kind of familiar. Everyone shoots off fireworks at midnight on New Year's Eve in Germany - it's even legal, bar some restrictions like "no setting off fireworks within 300 metres of a half-timbered house" (i.e. not in the inner cities - fire risk). My family generally just watches, but some of our neighbours set off fireworks, especially the... uh... I think the closest concept in English would be fraternity?? house just down the road. We generally end up finding a rocket in the garden or on the roof the next day (although there hasn't been damage as yet, thankfully), and you definitely don't want to drive anywhere until the roads have been cleared of possibly-explosive detritus.

So glad to see mALX back among us! The weather just south of you in the Heart of Dixie ( that would be Alabama for all the nawthuners ) has been bad as well, but without harrowing storms. Just a lot of rain...wait...I meant A LOT OF RAIN! Although we have not had to endure a crustacean invasion, other life forms have become refugees...palmetto bugs and slugs

@ Grits - I'm with Acadian on this...I think that some clandestine government agency has you in their employ. Is that you I hear when those NSA clicks happen on my cell phone? Of course, Trey's version of being held captive by the crawdad overlord is funny too! Hang in there girl...we'll be here when you need us!

Our punch is:

1 (2 liter bottle) Canada Dry ginger ale
1 large bottle Ocean Spray Cranberry juice cocktail
1 box lime/orange sherbet (frozen, just drop it into the punch bowl and pour the two drinks on top to mix)

The sherbet chills the punch, and even children drink this punch and love it. (and everyone's kidneys work better for the next week from the cranberries, lol).



This post has been edited by mALX: Jul 7 2013, 06:26 PM

Here's my punch recipe:

1 1/2 parts 151 proof rum
1 part Malibu® coconut rum
5 parts pineapple juice

Wait that isn't punch, it is an alcoholic beverage. Nevermind guys.

WOO HOO! Pina Colada!

I think I like Kiln's "punch" the best.

I don´t drink punch. I deliver them.

Oh, yeah

That's not punch- that's a body slam!

And has anyone noticed Grits has not denied being a supersecret spy? Makes one wonder....

Hang on- someone knocking at the door....

DON´T OPEN IT!!

Fear not. Trey is under my protection. Got this "UPS Delivery Man" in my crosshairs. He doesnt fool me. UPS doesnt deliver on Sunday!

*Fires tranquilizer dart with combination of sedative and laxative.*

Oh, wait. Yes they do..I'm thinking of the Post Office...crap. Well thankfully noone knows I'm here. Trey will just think it's a new take on the flaming paper bag trick...I hope.

To the shadows I return!!

Did you have to include the laxative!??

Crucial to the set up of the jest. Are you unfamiliar with the flaming paper bag? It typically contains the results of laxative in hopes that one use theeir shoe...

This is actually the way we tell someone from East Tennessee's boots from other cowboy style boots. In ETN, the BS is all on the outside of the boot (unless someone launches a laxative missile at them, I assume).

What is this..."punch"?

Some kind of alcoholic beverage?

A juice?

A smoothie?

A fist?

Nectar of the gods, my friend.

Juet don't try mine. Target was having a sale on...nevermind. Lets just say my mix is crappy...

I don´t drink alcohol. I´ve tried but even the stuff that was good never got me hooked. And I don´t drink beer, that´s for sure! *yuck!*

Besides, you can´t be drunk and still play computer games and be good at it!

This post has been edited by mirocu: Jul 7 2013, 11:00 PM

I exist as an antithesis to your statement sir. I mean sure, I may have killed *everysinglelivingthing* that walked in Kvatch when one or five arrows missed thoer mark, but the point is, they didn't kill me...not one reload.