It's true what they say, how they make everything new again
We couldn't do fireworks last night because, well actually we did a couple and the babies started to wake up. And a sleeping baby is worth one thousand screaming ones or perhaps three million. Anyway. Instead early tonight we set off the handful we'd bought - the ones that amount to not much more than large sparklers with maybe some whistles thrown in for good measure. Why is everything illegal these days? My mom talks about bombs, I'm not kidding, I think literally small bombs were allowed on July 4th back in the good old days. The good old days when we were free to light our pants on fire. I held little Ella in my lap while we watched from the deck as Peter lit the dazzling display and I'm not kidding, I preferred watching her face as it reacted to the show, than the lights themselves. It was like watching fireworks for the first time, all over again.
posted by Hope @ 7/05/2007 08:12:00 PM
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Not bombs, unless you count the little cherry bombs. They were the size of a cherry. My brother would tape one inside a "tin" can and set it off. I forget why the can, maybe to concentrate the blast. Anyway, it made a lot of noise. We also had bottle rockets that shot balls of fire high into the sky. We had pinwheels that you nailed to a tree and lit, causing them to spin and shoot sparks out in a circle. We had tubes that shot out miniature flags and others that launched tiny parachutes. Also, one of my favorites (neither noisy nor incendiary) were little pellets you lit that produced a long "worm" of black ash. Altogether, it was a lot more fun than the various sparklers we have left today. And really, is it the government's job to protect us from ourselves in every activity of life?
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