Fantastic Fourth

Posted on July 4th, 2006 in Freedom & Liberty, Personal Life, USA by Justin

Let’s see.

  • Woke up early and had a breakfast consisting of scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage gravy on top, and toast on the side.
  • Hit the shooting range.
  • Expended a stupid amount of ammo in a rather short time out of the AR-15 and AK-47.
  • Shot the breeze with a nice fellow on the firing line.
  • Got to play with his tricked-out 10/22.
  • Watched his son (10 years old?) shoot a 1911.
  • Hung out with the family and ate some good grilled red meat.
  • Went to a friend of a friend’s place as the sun went down to light up some fireworks.
  • Upon arrival I radio back home (5-6 miles away) that THIS is the stuff they’re seeing — the official town fireworks have not started yet.
  • Ponder which state these things are actually legal in.
  • Decide I need to visit this state as vendors sell off their extra fireworks after Independence Day.
  • Had a finely crafted locally made beer. Yes singular.
  • Noticed that a neighbor’s pyrotechnics had produced a smoldering fire in the field between some houses.
  • Used processed ice tea, lemonade, pure water, and above beer to stop said fire using my handy dandy built in fire extinguisher.

Oh, and I gave a cursory “how to take down an AR-15″ to a buddy that’s going into the Army come August.

All said and done, not a bad day.

Oh, and yes, I did take time to remember that on July 2nd 1776 there were 56 men that signed their own death warrants by putting their signature at the bottom of the Declaration of Independence.

God bless them!