The new year was greeted by us with some Black Cat Firecrackers, 1 cake Johnny B. Good (30-shots), and 1 other cake Thunder Mountain (33-shots).<\/p>\n
Some neighbors shot off mortars here and there after dark set in, here and there, and more as midnight grew closer. We only had firecrackers for the entire night, with “the big show” with our cakes saved for midnight.<\/p>\n
The weather was decent for fireworks, mild, a tad chilly, but not bad. Fairly good skies, thin clouds high above, plenty of room in the sky for fireworks. Light breezes now and then, most smoke cleared out from fireworks being shot off fast enough not to be an annoyance in viewing the show(s). Breezes disturbed some of the shots the neighbors had earlier in the night. I wasn’t aware of any distortion of our cakes, but they go so differently than the single mortars, they have an overall impact. Mortars are singular, even the double or triple break sort, IMO.<\/p>\n
So we are now in another new year. I liked the sound of 2010. It wasn’t hard to get used to. 2011 isn’t so bad, just not as grand sounding, to me, as 2010. I’ve yet to write it out wrong, so maybe it’s an easy change. FWIW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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