July 4th!

gpsmoker · July 04, 2006, 03:50:32 AM

Just wanted to wish all American friends on the forum a Happy 4th of July! Have a great day and hope you are all smoking up some tasty dishes to celebrate with. :) :) :) :)

Greg

Oldman · July 04, 2006, 05:27:25 AM

Thanks and we are a smokin' two briskets since last night 10 pm.
Olds

Habanero Smoker · July 04, 2006, 05:29:53 AM

Thanks.

No smoking today. Have to attend to other activities, and do some resting.

asa · July 04, 2006, 08:49:31 AM

Thanks Greg. Finishing up two butts, a rack of spareribs, and a cured brisket for pastrami.

Art

owrstrich · July 04, 2006, 09:12:35 AM

manxman · July 05, 2006, 03:28:39 AM

Hope you guys all had a good Canada Day and July 4th Day respectively. ;D

It is our turn today, we celebrate our National Day with an outdoor meeting of our Parliament, Tynwald, the oldest continuous parliament in the world together with a host of other events including Viking longboat races and re-enactments of the Viking invasion in the 8th century AD....... plunder and pillage and all that!!

Me? It's a glorious day and I'm off fishin' with my two boys.......... ;D

Habanero Smoker · July 05, 2006, 05:36:39 AM

Enjoy your day.

manxman · July 05, 2006, 10:04:51 AM

QuoteEnjoy your day.

Thanks HS

asa · July 05, 2006, 05:59:13 PM

Quote from: manxman on July 05, 2006, 03:28:39 AM
Me? It's a glorious day and I'm off fishin' with my two boys..........

Hope you had good success plundering and pillaging in the briny deep.

manxman · July 06, 2006, 01:53:26 AM

QuoteHope you had good success plundering and pillaging in the briny deep.

Oh yes, good haul of fish and lobster plus we got to see 13 basking shark up to about 22 foot in length. These are harmless plankton eaters but are the second biggest fish in the world growing to about 35 foot...... an awesome site. They are protected now in many parts of the world including the Isle of Man, UK and US.

We had 6 around the boat at one stage, just takes your breath away!

http://www.isleofman.com/Science/Animals/Fish/Basking%20Sharks.aspx

3rensho · July 06, 2006, 02:02:40 AM

Wow, thanks for the link Paul. Those are impressive critters. Must be doubly so up close and personal. From head on with the mouth open they look like something from an old Startrek episode I remember.

Tom

Habanero Smoker · July 06, 2006, 03:15:53 AM

Quote from: manxman on July 06, 2006, 01:53:26 AM
We had 6 around the boat at one stage, just takes your breath away!

That had to be one heck of an experience.

I need to tweak some settings on either my firewall or Semantic software, the pictures are not showing when I connect to the site.

manxman · July 06, 2006, 06:40:49 AM

QuoteFrom head on with the mouth open they look like something from an old Startrek episode I remember

mmmmm........ from that angle they always remind me of an ex girlfriend I had many moons ago. :-[ Thing is, the moonlight was'nt too bad, it was seeing her in broad daylight that was the scary thing. ;D

Needless to say the relationship didn't even last the summer holidays and she is probaly telling similar stories about me! ;)

tsquared · July 06, 2006, 06:57:24 AM

That shot didn't remind me of my ex so much as it did of her lawyer! :D Sounds like you had a good day. Viking pillage as an annual tradition--somehow that's got more pizzaz than our fireworks and beer!
T2

manxman · July 06, 2006, 07:31:37 AM

QuoteThat shot didn't remind me of my ex so much as it did of her lawyer!

This

http://www3.sympatico.ca/jcomely/great-white-shark-picture-014.jpg

reminds me of lawyers!! ;D Basking shark are such gentle sedate creatures apart from when they rub up against the boat and take the antifouling off!! :o