Tyler, is Lake Lucerne in NC?
tish

* norsvike:
> --- In Spondyville@yahoogroups.com, tchyder@... wrote:
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>> Here's my plan for celebrating our country's 222nd year of
>>
> independence~
>
>> Thursday I will be busy making my signature potato salad and
>>
> kitchy jello mold replicating our American flag. I'll also make a
> stop at one of the local fireworks stands to purchase a box of
> sparklers to ignite over the jello mold at exactly 9:30 pm on Friday
> the 4th. It's not quite dark yet at that time, but the little ones
> will be getting tired, and they look forward to this tradition every
> year. :-)
>
>> I've already purchased the all-beef giant kosher dogs from costco
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> that we will be grilling. Someone else will be making their special
> onion burger ingredients. One of my friends will be making his
> signature baked beans, while another plans to bring her pasta shrimp
> salad. One of my daughters (Tarah) is bringing her signature new
> york style cheesecake (wow, it's soooo good) and the other (Brandi)
> is introducing a new family culinary tradition---a spinach pear
> salad with toasted slivered almonds and crumbled blue cheese in a
> sweet orange dressing. I;'m looking forward to all the potluck
> dishes everyone will contribute. Our only caveat is that any dish
> brought to the celebration must be homemade. For the non-
> cooks...they get the task of choosing drinks, chips, fresh fruits
> and veggie trays.
>
>> On Friday, about 19 family members and friends will gather at a
>>
> friend's house at about 2 pm on the lake to eat, play volleyball,
> croquet, frisbee, horseshoes sail the catamaran and take the rowboat
> or canoe out on the water. All the kids will don their lifejackets
> and swim in the lake until their fingers and toes shrivel like
> raisins. Oh, and did I mention EATING? lol. At 9 pm, all the young
> ones with their sparklers, smoking snakes and whitsling pete
> noisemakers will have their fun. Then at 9:30 everyone gathers
> around the dessert table to salute the flag by igniting sparklers
> and placing them in the jello flag mold. We play God Bless the USA,
> while sampling all the desserts. At 10, when everyone is full we
> move the chairs and blankets lake front to shoot off our own
> fireworks from the dock, and watch the others from neighboring
> lakefront homes.
>
>> The action dies down around 11:30. Anyone who has been drinking or
>>
> had planned to camp out overnight retires to their tents. We usually
> have a late night jam session with guitars and various other
> acoustic instruments and voices. Anyone not spending the night gets
> a free ride home (if they had anything stronger than lemonade to
> drink). Everyone is usally in bed by 2 am.
>
>> Saturday morning (well, about 11 am, lol) everyone will clean up
>>
> all the fireworks mess as well as the picnic and camping areas.
> During the cleanup, some of us will be busy preparing a big picnic
> style brunch for everyone to enjoy. This year my contributions to
> the meal are a spiced pumpkin puff pancake with caramelized pecans
> and homemade butter pecan syrup and a layered breakfast mexican
> lasagna made with turkey apple sausage, refried beans, a combination
> of 4 mexican cheeses, eggs, thinly sliced and seeded tomatoes,
> jalapenos and shredded potatoes. The whole thing is layered with
> flour tortillas and topped with pico de gallo and dollups of sour
> cream and guacamole.
>
>> Once filled with all the good things to eat everyone will go home.
>>
> Then I plan to spend the rest of the day sitting in my favorite
> rocker on the front porch (which overlooks the lake) to read and
> watch everyone playing on the water. Lake Lucerne is a private lake,
> so a lot of the neighbors have various types on non-motorized
> watercraft (sailboats, catamarans, paddle boats, canoes, etc,) along
> with the requisite kids water toys...noodles, snorkels, beach balls,
> water polo gear, whiffle balls and so on.
>
>> As one of the hosts, I'm usually the last one to leave. After all
>>
> the activity, I think I'll plan on spending Saturday evening with a
> good movie and a glass of lemonade... :-)
>
>> So...what are your plans?
>>
>> Tyler
>>
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> WOW Smoking snakes! haven't they heard of the surgeon generals
> report on smoking and now I suppose I will have to get some
> whistling TYLER noisemakers have fun pete
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peace,
tish
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she was not what you would call refined.
she was not what you would call unrefined
she was the kind of a person that keeps a parrot.
.....mark twain


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