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Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, July 05, 2009 - 12:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Today was a pretty big let down.

It was very nice to spend time with friends and family and we had fun doing that. Dakota was invited to spend the night last night with her bff and go out to the base today for swimming at the big pool and a picnic out there and she had a lot of fun. But came home sunburned (bff's mom swore she sunscreened Kota up twice and I believe her, I just have a very white kid and the sun was brutal today) and then we went to sis' and slathered her with sunscreen there too but it didn't help too much.

It was so windy and dusty that I ended up sitting in the house most of the afternoon because I was just miserable outside. I had people asking if I had pink eye because my eyes were so red and swollen.

But, we got to spend time with family and friends and as I said that was fun. The kids had a great time...Dakota's bff went with us to my sisters, then we met her parents in the desert this evening for watching the fireworks.

So, we'd been a bit worried about the wind, because if it was too bad, they'd cancel the show. Calmed down quite a bit by tonight though. A whole bunch of us ended up hanging out and the kids ran around playing while we waited.

Then the lights at the fairgrounds went off and everyone sat down. It was obvious from the start there was some problem...the lights were off about 10 minutes before they started the fireworks. Then they were kind of sporadic for 10 minutes or so, stopped completely, shot one more off, and stopped again. That was it. We were wondering what was going on when little "adopted" sis called and said they were in the fairgrounds, they weren't sure what was going on but there was some problem and they'd stopped for a couple minutes but said they'd start back up. As she was telling us that, there was another announcement that the show was being cancelled. We were a good half mile away and could hear the boo's very clearly where we were.

All of the kids, except my baby niece who thought that the fireworks were the coolest thing she'd ever seen, were pretty disappointed. Except for Dakota, who by that point was feeling pretty lousy with her sunburn and was ready to go home.

We got home to find our neighbors (our friends) out soaking his yard and ours. My next door neighbors were having a very noisy party (that just ended) and they'd been out shooting off fireworks that were landing in the yards. Luckily neighbor was home and decided wetting down his and our yard would be a good idea! We're under water restrictions here and while the grass isn't dead yet, it probably wouldn't take too much to start a fire.

We ended up watching the Boston pops thing on CBS and their fireworks.

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Monday, July 06, 2009 - 6:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
War I live right outside of Boston and all I had to do was walk out my back door and accross a very small street and had a perfect view of the Boston fireworks. Someone stopped their car and turned up the radio. it was very enjoyable.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, July 06, 2009 - 10:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
On tv it looked like an incredible show. And it kept going and going for a good 25-30 minutes.

Kota and I went to the grocery store yesterday and the cashier asked if we'd gone to see them here. Dakota told her how bad it was and she said Kota was at least the fourth person to tell her that in less than an hour. Also said one woman told her she'd timed it from the time the lights went down til they announced they were cancelling the show and it was 13 minutes. I know between the lights going down and the first fireworks, it was about 5 minutes, so all told about 8 minutes of fireworks.

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Monday, July 06, 2009 - 10:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
I usually do not see them that well because there are some 4 story buildings in the way, but these were really high. the best I have ever seen.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, July 06, 2009 - 10:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Heh, we thought they looked really high! There were some shots where they showed the people out watching them where you could see how high they were.

LOL, the baseball stadium does fireworks a couple times a season (they had their show Friday night and we missed it cuz we thought it was going to be Saturday) and if we go stand in the middle of the street and bend over and twist some we have a great view of those. No tall buildings, but lots of trees in the way.

There's an article in the paper today about the fireworks, said it was technical difficulties that caused them to cancel the show. The mayor is apparently quite ticked off and called it an unacceptable situation and is trying to get the company to get a free fireworks show from them.

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Monday, July 06, 2009 - 12:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
War did you watch them at 7:30 your time?

Couchtomato
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09-09-2008

Friday, September 18, 2009 - 3:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Couchtomato a private message Print Post    
Happy New Year to our Jewish friends!!!

Tishala
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08-01-2000

Friday, September 18, 2009 - 4:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
L'Shana Tovah everyone!

Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Friday, September 18, 2009 - 7:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
Happy New Year to those who are celebrating!

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, September 18, 2009 - 10:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Happy Jewish New Year to my friends, real and cyber!

Ginger1218
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08-31-2001

Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 3:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ginger1218 a private message Print Post    
Happy New Year MB darling, and to all who celebrate

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 7:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    

Ginge!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, October 06, 2009 - 10:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Anyone wanna boo with me, Darren and the kidlets this year??

Several years ago, about a week before Halloween we were sitting around the house one evening when the doorbell rang. When we opened the door, there was no one on the porch, but there was a plastic pumpkin filled with candy, glow sticks, and a little poem, "You've been boo'd!" I found out not too long after little "adopted" bro, his wife and my nephews had hit the whole family that night. They'd found the poem on the back of a bag of M&M's and thought it'd be a fun activity with the kidlets, making up the baskets, then sneaking up to the doors to leave them and ring the bell. Sis in law got the biggest kick out of telling me later that they'd run across the street and hid in the neighbors bushes to watch us discover our treat, lol.

We've been boo'ing neighbors and friends since then, an activity the kids just love to participate in. The whole thing is supposed to be a secret, though I do call ahead and let one parent at each house know that we will be doing this and a rough time of when we'll do it so no one freaks out finding goodies on the porch with no idea of where they came from.

organizedchristmas

That site has one version of the poem (it also has instructions) and 3 different signs you can print out. Add a boo sign and the poem to a gift basket, pick a friend, neighbor, or relative, sneak up to the door, ring the bell....and run! It's a pass it on thing, you boo one person, they boo two, etc.

It's tons of fun and the kids really enjoy it. They help pick stuff out for the goodie basket and they do the delivering and running. Last year was really funny because we boo'd Dakota's best friend and then the next time she was over she excitedly told the kids about it and how neat it was, while they hid giggles.

We usually buy the funpacks of candy, some stickers, and either something that glows (necklaces, bracelets, glowsticks) or cheap flashlights for each kid. Also since I'd called ahead to let a parent know we would be dropping off secret goodies for their kids, we also baked halloween cookies and put in the baskets. Because the folks we do it to have younger kids, we don't do anything really scary.

So, I thought if anyone was interested we could post about our experiences. Maybe post if you want to do it, who you plan to do it to (friend/family/neighbor,) and then post when you do it and the reactions you've seen or heard and rather it caught on and more people were boo'd.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 4:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
we used to boo! our neighbhorhood still does but it's mostly the elementary school kids.

there has also been an adult version that has gone through the neighborhood...you have been 'boozed'. LOL

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 8:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
LOL, you've been boozed might go over well here.

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 9:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
Wargod, it sounds like fun. My mother and I do something similiar for Easter. We leave Easter baskets at peoples' doors in the morning.

The funny thing is now they get up early in the morning waiting for them.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 9:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Oh that's a cool idea! We've done something similar for Christmas, but I hadn't thought about Easter.

Scooterrific
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07-08-2005

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
I hate it when we get booed!!!! UUGGHHH

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
I say we all fly to Scoots house and one at a time Boo her. I will bring the snow

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 11:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
Boy, DF, you are almost as evil as Scoot is. <insert tongue sticking out clipart here. I can't get it to work.>

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 11:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
she is the evil of the west coast and i am the evil of the east coast.

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 11:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    


Scooterrific
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07-08-2005

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 11:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    


Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 12:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Grooch, here's a couple of giffees you might want to nab:

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - 12:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
Now Scoot we all know you are a devil