We’re gearing up around Casa de Sublett for a grand 4th of July celebration. We’ve hosted a big shindig for as long as I can remember. It used to be a youth group/families party, but over the past few years as my role shifted so did the party. Last year there were about 150 people in our backyard and the field behind our house.
Let the record show that we have one of the best views of the fireworks.
And it’s quite a fireworks show. The 4thFest website claims: The 4thFest has been rated the 3rd Largest, Biggest, Best 4th of July Fireworks show in the United States.
But the weather has been sketchy of late. Thunderstorms and torrential downpours, roads flooding, arks being built. Great for the ducks and kayakers; not so fantabulous for the fireworks. The prognosticators/weather sages (non-locals, did you know that Accuweather is based in State College?) are calling for a hot, humid, possibly wet 4th of July.
Kim’s had us out working (and by us, I mean mostly the kiddos!) like busy beavers, if beavers were adept at weeding and mulching and uprooting and pruning and hauling and hacking and sawing and cutting and snipping.
We had a rainy 4th one other year. It happened to be the summer that I broke a bone in my foot (rock-climbing…well, not so much climbing…) so I spent the evening hobbling around the wet yard with a black garbage bag taped to my leg. Kim’s not very excited about piles of people traipsing though the house, soaked to the bone and dripping everywhere. I can’t say as I blame her.
So with a big party planned–we expect about 150 people from midtown to show up for burgers and dogs and sparklers and mirth–what would you do if it rains? Does anyone have a dozen of those pop-up tailgating tents that we could borrow?
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