4 July 2005
21 years ago, I celebrated Independence Day for the first time.
My dad's cousin came back to Scotland for the first time since he'd left as a young boy to go to the US with his brother.
He brought his wife and some of their family, and we (me, my sister, mum, dad, gran and granny) had a barbecue in our garden, complete with burgers and tiny little US flags.
Unfortunately, the photos of that day seem to have disappeared, so you'll have to take my word for it, but I was a bit more of a girlie girl back then, and if memory serves, I was wearing a pink (!) dress and the highlight of my day, quite apart from the food and the attention from all these relatives I'd never met before was being given a Velveteen Rabbit colouring book and a box of 48 crayola crayons - complete with gold and silver crayons!
Such luxury.
This year, I'm celebrating again, but in a slightly different way.
I'm going to go and see a bunch of rednecks playing a rock and heavy metal songs. There will be banjos, mandolins and fiddles. There will be a lot of yee-hawwww'ing. There might even be bourbon-fuelled dancing.
It's going to be great.
What a trip down memory lane I had looking for those photographs. We also had steaks brought over from America but neither you or your sister liked steak. Such happy memories.
I was introduced me Hayseed Dixie's blue-grass covers album on New Years Eve last year and loved it. I thought their cover of Ace of Spades was *ace*.
Would you mind posting a small review after you've seen them please?
i saw hayseed dixie at glastonbury and they were ACE!!
You know, I knew that band sounded familiar. I saw them way back in '02 in Telluride. That was some set, though I must admit I was cooked at the time, and waiting for Yonder to come on. ;)
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