4th of July weekend

Aahhhh, the 4th of July weekend is upon us. I'm on vacation and my wife has a 4 day weekend. On Thursday, I had to run to Tacoma to pick up my wife's nephews, Ben and Micheal. Their mother is out of town with some guy she met online and grandma didn't have the time to take them anywhere for the 4th. So we took them in, we have plenty of room. Friday we pack up and all go to Wild Waves, What a mistake that was!!!! The place was packed solid. There were some water rides that had lines an hour long just to get a tube to wait in another line to get in the water. We mostly stuck to the wave pool, still packed!! Things didn't start out very well on Saturday, I go outside to tend to the farm animals and noticed that my mail box is open....AGAIN!!! This has been going on for about a week, so we had to get a P.O. box, but still I was sick of this/these jerks!!!! I got my air tank, went to the paintball field and got it charged. Seeing that I still had 1000 paint balls, I would have some fun after the fireworks!!!!! We then headed out to Fort Lewis for their Freedom Fest, I go mainly to see my good friend Kevin Wolfe. Ive been going for the last 10 years or so and it's the same show every year,but I never tire of it. Kevin has even taught me how to make my own cardiographic effect. Why pay 175.00 for a magic effect when you can made one for less than 10.00. Mine doesn't look as good as Kevin's or Martin Lewis', but it looks O.K.

After the magic show I hung around and chatted with Kevin a bit while Darlene to the kids around and played. We then went home, I fired up the grill while Darlene took care of the animals for the evening. The plan was to grill up some ribs and have a picnic in Orting before the fireworks. Real pleasant evening and a good fireworks show, the kids had a blast!!! The show was put on by the Orting Lions, so it's not a very big show, but hey, it's close to home. We get home and get the kids to bed and everything settled down for the night. I put on my cammies, tactical vest, load my paintball rifle, grab my radio to keep in contact with my wife, grab my taser(should anything go wrong) and hide in the bushes across the street from my mailbox. Once my eyes adjusted to the night, I could see everything just fine. I didn't have to wait long before I heard movement in the bushes then saw a flashlight. I tell Darlene to call the police as I see someone come out of the bushes, cross the ditch and open my mailbox. I took my paintball rifle off "safe" and lit his ass up!!! I know I hit him because I heard the "splats"....... and the screams. The police were at my house within 5 minutes, I gave them a description....white male, white T-shirt.....covered with green paint. It took a bit to get this on paper as the deputy was laughing so hard. They didn't find him, but, we haven't found our mailbox open anymore!!!

My daughter finally got the bug outta her ass and is talking to me and coming over for visits again. She wants to earn some cash, So I pay her to help out around the farm. Her brother comes over to help out and visit me. It's good that she is some what back to normal.