Memorial Day plans
- Thread starter Charlie Marlow
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Florida Keys, boating, SCUBA, fishing, reporting poachers, smoking fish, ceviche,
music, sunshine, and being lazy.
music, sunshine, and being lazy.
Going to visit my parents my sisters grandparents great grandparents
Remembering that liberty is paid for in blood, then wondering why so many spend it like it’s free.
Recovery. Last 3 months of a senior graduating and playing last season of HS baseball, plus the older son playing last season of JUCO baseball in Minnesota. Moving one out of a house, making college plans for the other, graduation party..... I'm shot.
I get to move my daughter to Omaha - she got accepted for an internship at UNMC for the summer. Not really mad about that...
Walleye, smallmouth, occasional pike for the fun of the catch. Anything norther Minnesota has to offer
We do a family "cemetery crawl". Hit West O graves in am then midtown graves w/ beers then lunch. Cookout in evening
Sadly, moving day is scheduled for Friday & Saturday. Help will have Sunday & Monday at their pleasure. Son-in-law has grumbled to his wife, but he likes us and is happy that we are moving into the community that both sides of his family have lived for generations, mostly as farmers. Granddaughter to age as 2 on June 6 has also approved our new house.
My family has more of a cemetery haul than a "cemetery crawl". My paternal Great and Grandparents are in Wakefield and Pender along with various Aunts, Uncles & Cousins. My maternal Great, Great, and Grandparents are in Beemer along with a very large part of Mother's family history. My parents are in West Point. We need coolers on the road trip. Sadly, the last two years have added a brother in North Carolina and a brother-in-law in South Carolina.
My son has caught some nice smallies from the Mississippi in St. Cloud. The river is really pretty through there. Not that it holds a candle to a northern MN lake.
Kind of depends on if the weather cooperates, but always like to smoke some ribs at some point during the weekend. Try and head back home and visit the family at the cemetery and enjoy the small town Memorial Day service. I am not a gear head, but I do usually watch the Indy 500. Probably sit in the garage and drink a whole bunch of beers and watch some of my favorite war movies.
Patton
Saving Private Ryan
Kelly's Heroes
Band of Brothers
Midway
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Longest Day
Fury
There is just to many to watch and not enough days or hours to get them all in.
Patton
Saving Private Ryan
Kelly's Heroes
Band of Brothers
Midway
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Longest Day
Fury
There is just to many to watch and not enough days or hours to get them all in.
Midway is one of my favorites. Such a huge naval victory that turned the tide in the war in the Pacific. Had Nimitz not outsmarted the Japanese in that one, the US Pacific fleet would have been in a world of hurt. And that movie (1976 version) had so many big name and other well known actors - almost too many to count.
Have a cook out... pretty much what everyone does if they aren't out of town
I started my Memorial Day weekend early by skiing one more time this season at Mt Bachelor, Oregon on May 14. Then on Tuesday, May 20 I jetted my way to Omaha. Rode bikes and played golf in Lincoln Travelled to some small towns. Saw lots and lots of old friends, drank some beer, ate some really tasty food, started a bonfire with a friend's flame thrower and just had a great, great time. My Washington friends will be jealous about me using a flame thrower. Just a routine activity in rural Nebraska. Same friend has a spud gun mounted on old steel wheels. We had fun with that too. Nebraska was cool and green.
You will never hear the word cook-out used in the West. That is a Midwest term for sure. Maybe in the South too. I've never heard it used here.
Everyone in California always wants to ‘barbecue’ me a steak.
