31-Day Fun Challenge
Memories From the 4th of July
Fun sometimes comes in the form of an explosion!
Day 4 of my 31-day fun challenge.
My town doesn’t allow personal fireworks within city limits. Most cities don’t in the hopes of preventing house fires, instead organizing fireworks productions at a central location in town. Mine held theirs early last Saturday night.
That doesn’t stop kids from running around at midnight setting off exposions and running off before they can be caught. Anything that makes the most noise. Night, after night, after night. Until they run out of ammunition.
My cat has been terrified all week.
My Childhood 4th-of-July Celebrations
When I was young, backyard fireworks were the norm. My family usually traveled to my grandmother’s house where my uncle would take the youngest of us to the fireworks stand. We’d buy sparklers, Roman candles, bottle rockets, black cats and pop-its, these funny little buttons that you throw on the ground, or stomp on to make them go “bang!”
After dark, one of my uncles would dig a hole in the ground in my grandmother’s backyard and bury an empty Coke bottle or tin vegetable can. Then he’d place a rocket…
