July 4th was a success for us! The rain came early afternoon, poured for awhile, tapered off. Stopped for awhile, came again, pittered about after 8pm, but not too much, by 8:30pm I was setting off some fountains.<\/p>\n
By the time the sky was darker we had no rain and were able to get all our major stuff up. We didn’t send up all our re-loadable mortars, but all the cakes were used. There are also Magic Crystals and a fountain or two left.<\/p>\n
I used Live Free or Die and Vapor Trails together, and it was phenomenal!<\/p>\n
I used a Sea Sparrow and 100 Saturn battery in conjunction with God of Fire, but the two little ones all blew out at once, weird. I had them setup right. I lit them properly with a punk, one after the other. By the time I got the God of Fire lit, the two little ones were done.<\/p>\n
They are supposed to last a decent amount of time, they both blew their loads the same. Weird. So God of Fire was alone and I guess I’ve never seen it solo before. It really likes to have other things with it.<\/p>\n
I used Preemptive strike with a Red, White and BOOM! … super nice together. I would have put off two of the RW&B but I couldn’t get it done, so I put the other one up when the first two were done. It’s a sweet little box. One of my favorites we get every year, at least two, usually more, but only two this year.<\/p>\n
We sent up the Crown Brocade Classic box alone. It’s lush and gorgeous, all golden wonderfulness. God of Fire would work well with it, as I have done before. It was nice to see it unadulterated though.<\/p>\n
Other things were nice. Those above were the highlights. It was so much fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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