Thread: What are you doing for the Fourth?

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Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!

This is an exceptional 4th for us. Today we are barbequeing, then jumping in the pool and watching the fireworks from the back yard.

More importantly...tomorrow my signifigant other has a guest arriving that she's never met.....her older brother!

They were both adopted and haven't ever met. It's been 55 years since then, and though we had not been able to find him.....he found us!

He and his wife will arrive Saturday, then on sunday we will host a pool party/BBQ, so he can meet the kids and grand kids.

Hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend too!

How fortunate for your wife, my wife just came home from work, and I was telling her of your post. My wife said that is strange that you mentioned that because, where she works she is involved with the Poor Handmaids, an order of the Catholic sister’s. A man about 80 years old was inquiring of his wanting to find his Sister, that until recently didn’t have any knowledge of. Someone told him he had a Sister that was a Poor Handmaid. This man knows that time is very important if he will be able to find her. At this time all he knows is the fact that she is his Sister by birth and she is a Nun, she may not be alive but he is holding onto hope. Could you imagine that?

Richard

scrapping an unruly POS yellow nova with a POS motor that refuses to run worth a damn!

Originally Posted by stovens

Hotrodpaint
That's one of the best stories I've heard in a while. I'm so happy for her! I had been searching for a college buddy for 20 years, when we finaly connected this spring. All this time that she has been searching for her brother, I bet he was searching for her!
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Actually his parents died by the time he was 20, and never told him he was adopted. He found out about 6 months ago, when he applied for a passport.

The 82 year old uncle, who was with him at the passport agency, had been sworn to secrecy by the parents, but when he found out anyway, his uncle filled in the blanks! :-)

towboating , wish i was home drinkin beer and eatin crawfish..

happy 4th yall ....

anybody wanna buy a nova with a ridiculously small motor?

Spent my 4th of July working,trying to keep the temperature up in the workshop,only about 50deg F. Raining again today,temperature about 42degF,[6deg Celsius]. Hail showers,cold,no thunder yet though, Wish we were up your neck of the woods in the warmth,enjoying a cold one.
Have a good holiday guys and gals.
Robin.

Raining all day here. Not doing much of anything. Playing with the kittens. Looks like no fireworks or grilling today.

I bolted the Flex-A-Lite fan to my Zip mount and messed with shim washers to to keep the fan blades away from the alternator by about 1/16" but then went with the grandkids to the big celebration at Yorktown. They got their feet into the York River on the sandy beach long enough to see some jellyfish up close and we had a pretty good time with free music and a crowd estimated at 20,000. The Internet advertised "classic cars" but we saw nary a one. Then it started to rain! The kids wanted to see the fireworks and they fired them in the rain and it was the best fireworks I have ever seen! The kids enjoyed the great fireworks even in the rain and I will have to wait until they go home to get back in the garage and finish installing the Zip fan and the Walker shroud.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

I did go 2 towns over to watch the fireworks, but they didn't have them ( guess I should have checked first ).. so we drove 2 towns over in the other direction of my house, and they did have there normal fireworks.. I can see that show from my house ( I live on a mtn ).