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Hopefully blowing up.
Anyone doing anything exciting?
Hopefully blowing up.
Cue George W. Bush troll . . .
I have a wedding and then a picnic. Unfortunately, we have work on Monday
haha Katy!
My cousin is driving in from California because her moms 60th bday is on the 3rd so we're going to the Riverwalk to celebrate. It's a surprise. Then on the 4th...ugh...it's going to suck. My grandfather was buried on the 4th last year so I'm sure we'll head on over to Ft. Sam Cemetery and spend some time there. Then as usual, park at our regular spot (on St. Cloud and Bandera) to watch the fireworks from Woodlawn Lake.I am sooooooooo glad I have a 4 day weekend!
Not really. I try to stay off the roads on that weekend, too many crazy drunk people out there. My sister and I (and maybe my brother) will spend the day with my Mom at her house. We usually barbecue, and this year we decided on burgers.
We go to the parade in Schertz in the morning (10:00 AM). It's a cute little parade, lots of fire trucks and other emergency vehicles from all the neighboring communities, lots of kids, dogs, horses, and noise, etc. Then we just stay inside where it's cool (my Mom can't be out in the heat for health reasons) during the day. Then, we walk to the Schertz park from my sister's house (she lives 2 blocks from the park) for the fireworks show...we can see Schertz' and Randolph AFB's from there. And, we usually have a funnel cake from the carnival in the park while we watch the fireworks. Oh! And we all wear our annual $5 "Old Navy" 4th of July t-shirt - hey, it's the American way!
Exciting, huh? (not bad for three old ladies, though)
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I am taking my kayaks up to the Guadalupe below Canyon Dam on Saturday early and trying to catch some big stripers. Water is way down and they should be concentrated in the holes. It may not be considered exciting but waterskiing in a kayak behind a 40 pound striper shouldn't be boring either.
CC, that would be awesome! The very first time I ever dropped a line in the water (period...in my whole life!), I caught a 4-lb striper at Canyon Lake off that little island straight out from the Randolph AFB marina! I was hooked for life!
How do you think the fish felt?
He was pissed...but he sure was fun to catch, even though when I felt him on the line on the light rig I was using, it scared the out of me...never having caught a fish in my life and all. He sure tasted good, too.
Grandparents live up the street from Woodlawn, so we're there bbq and watching the fireworks.
Work.
Catching big fish in the kayak is a scream...The first time I went to Calaveras I caught a 32" red...sucker towed me around the lake for 20 minutes...
We have a major amount of fireworks left from New Year's burn-ban ... we just bought some more, and User has been making some of his own. Blowing up is his thang.
We'll be at the lake house.
Calaveras is a lot of fun, I love camping and fishing there. Braunig is fun, too. We used to go out there in February and sit on the discharge channel and catch stripers coming out of there. Boats would tie up on the cable and fish until they limited out and then they'd come out and another boat would move in and take their place. Sometimes, there'd be so many boats and they would be so close together, you could walk across them. The game warden would just sit off the mass about 100 feet or so and watch to make sure there were no fights; occasionally, they'd check licenses when you'd come out and check your fish to make sure you weren't over your limit. It would only take about an hour and a half (sometimes not even that long) for the four people in our boat to limit out. We'd camp out there for 3 days and do that. It was so much fun. A kayak would be a lot of fun in that situation because it would be easy to maneuver in and out.
I will be blowing stuff up.
and probably having some cookout at some point.
That sounds like fun! That was the power plant discharge? How big were they?
We might go to the Shops at La Cantera and watch the Fiesta texas fireworks. That's it. Nothing big and exciting.
is it illegal is SA to use fireworks?
Yeah, it's at the power plant. About every three hours, they run chlorine through the channel to keep algae and stuff out. The stripers come out of the channel in droves when they start that chlorine (it's not strong enough to hurt people - about like a swimming pool - but fish HATE it). They weighed anywhere from 2-4 pounds. You'd catch as many that you had to release as you'd catch keepers. All of them were fun to catch, though. We'd use chicken livers (yes, on stripers - worked like a charm wrapped up in little swatches of nylon panty hose over a little treble hook) or small silver spoons. We did that for about 3 years in a row back in the 80s. I hadn't thought about that in a long time.
Did you see where that 72-yr-old guy drowned at Calaveras yesterday? They apparently hit some debris in the water and lost control of their boat, which went into a corkscrew spin. He, and his 80-yr old partner were thrown out of the boat. The 80-yr old was rescued, but as of this morning, they were still searching for the other guy. That water is like syrup it's so thick and murky and they said it's about 90 degrees. Poor old thing.
ouch! logs suck! I have seen idiots doing the "boat ejection" thing in Baffin on the rocks...only difference is they can stand up after they hit the water LOL...I saw one last fall when I was wading in the rockpile...crazy!...that area is clearly marked on the map and I was STANDING in the water (about mid thigh) and he went between me and the shore...I told my friend "watch this" just as he hit a submerged rock going about 40...LOL...fortunately nobody was killed but I'll bet they were damned sore the next day...Did you see where that 72-yr-old guy drowned at Calaveras yesterday? They apparently hit some debris in the water and lost control of their boat, which went into a corkscrew spin. He, and his 80-yr old partner were thrown out of the boat. The 80-yr old was rescued, but as of this morning, they were still searching for the other guy. That water is like syrup it's so thick and murky and they said it's about 90 degrees. Poor old thing.
Last edited by CosmicCowboy; 06-28-2006 at 01:01 PM.
Well, l'm gonna drop someone off at the airport at 5:30 AM (crazy hour, I know), then get to work. I'm in Brazil so it isn't a holiday. But I'll prolly screw off, anyway. ha ha
Unfortunately I will be working for at least part of the weekend. We're going live with a major release of our supply chain software.
I hear that every day Brazil plays a game in the World Cup it's basically a holiday there so you get no sympathy from me!
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