Fireworks

On July 4th we had our own little fireworks show. I love “fireworks” and really love shooting them off, not just watching them. Big shows I do love, but not the crowds, and so it goes that if we can do our own, I do prefer that highly over going somewhere to see them on a holiday.

Over the years we haven’t really done them until 2006. July 4, 2006 and July 4, 2007 we had a packages which we got at Costco, just some Fountains. Nice, enough for my DH to start with. I am the one with a passion for the stuff, and he likes it OK, but wasn’t too “into it” then. He couldn’t care less for himself if he goes to see fireworks or not. I love baseball and so does he, and so if we can combine the two (fireworks after a baseball game) I would choose that over “just a baseball game” every time. He does think about that sometimes, for me, not for him.

We really did enjoy the fountains on 7/4/2007 but wanted MORE. For New Years Costco had the same sort of fountain packages and we got an even bigger set of fountains. It was really, really nice.

I have always wanted to get our things in another state though, since our state doesn’t allow the sale of anything much at all. So the children and I were able to convince DH to finally stop at one of the stores in another state on the way home after a trip before this past July 4th.

We got a bunch of stuff, and could hardly wait for nightfall on July 4, 2008 to arrive. DH set all of it off, I helped get things ready (since we have a baby around again, I didn’t participate as much as I’d like to, but I did enjoy myself immensley, as did DH.)

This was experimental for us, the first time working with shells, mortars, etc. We had even better fountains than before, some really stupid fountain types that we’ll not make the mistake to get again, and nearly every “tube” and “mortar” we had was really great, some way better than others, and all of them useful in conjunction with something else. We mostly shot things off singly, some we did two-stage, but it was as I said in the beginning of this paragraph, experimental.

Here you can see the aftermath: the next morning, July 5, 2008

This next New Year’s Eve (’09) we’ll go and get more, better things, and plan a multi-stage sort of show, then be ready for a fantastic July 4th 2009.

Some neighbors up the street shot off some nice ones, and we had a few neighbors down the street that came out and watched ours and theirs, and at least one of them was interested in doing more themselves next time because of it. 🙂

It’s my desire to have firecrackers year round, just for fun any old time. For birthdays I always want fireworks too, but my birthday is in July, just two weeks after the 4th. Not a problem in my mind, but it is to others pocketbooks.

I did tell my DH I’d just prefer a Cake for my birthday, from South Carolina. I don’t know what sort entirely, just one of those that has a fuse and shoots up a self-contained show. 🙂

This year we won’t be home for my birthday, our niece is getting married on that day, –which is kind of conflicting for me. I’m a “Celebrate your birthday on your actual birthday” sort of person. I don’t like overlapping things, and deal with that every so often in November, when our daughters birthday fall on Thanksgiving.

I don’t besmirch our niece her day, not at all. It’s just that I had planned to have DH get me stuff for my birthday for sure this year, for longer than a year, and I’m a “Celebrate your birthday on your actual birthday” sort of person, yes, I am repeating myself. Combining these things is impossible, and so …