4th of July

Here we are on our "floating beach" on the 4th of July. The fourth is one of a dozen official holidays that we get at Clemson. The university holiday schedule is atypical, where we work through the usual holidays, but we make up for it with spring and fall breaks. You'd think they could schedule the holidays in better consecutive order, but we'll take what we can get. For this fourth, one of the "normal" holidays, I went out and bought a Magma kettle grill for pudgy. You can see it installed over Corey's right shoulder.

The idea was to sit at anchor all day, and possibly well into the night with the hopes of catching a glimpse of some fireworks. As far as I know there are no official fireworks on Lake Keowee like there are on Lake Hartwell, but I was told that some lakefront homeowners often shoot them off. We were to use the grill to cook up some steaks while waiting for "dark-thirty", the time when the fireworks usually go off. We set anchor at the same little island that we found last time. The grill passed the initial knockwurst test, when we cooked up three of the fat little weiners and munched on these Euro-style hot dogs. Tasty! We were about to settle in when the wind kicked up and out of nowhere a pop-up thunder cloud came up and chased us off. You can see the cloud off in the distance. So instead of hanging out on the boat, we transferred our 4th of July operation to the deck at home. Once the rain passed by, the sun came out again and we spent the rest of the day at home. It was just as well, since we we could round up the cats before the fireworks went off. Harley doesn't like them and so she spent the evening under our bed before emerging after all the revellers quieted down.