Fourth of July

[lilmartini]

Wow, it was so much fun. There was a couple of scares where the mortar holder fell over. Once it went down the street and the other time it went between my chair and the pile of unexploded cakes. I dove for cover and fortunately nothing caught fire. I was denied my standard pleasure which was daisy chaining a the little bee shaped whizzers and

Comments

[rocza]

Awesome. Two of my best fourth of July's involved do-it-yourself fireworks; at the beach in Santa Cruz last year, where everyone was setting them off for as far as you could see down the beach (including overhead, which was... scary, at times), and when I was a kid and we bought hundreds of dollars worth of fireworks to set off in my uncle's backyard in Mississippi.

It's a much different event when you're the one setting them off. :-)

[lilmartini]

I know. That's why I trek all the way out to Monroe for this. I used to have a place that overlooked Gasworks and had giant parties for the 4th, but this really beats all. I love doing this.

[rocza]

*nod*
I find as I get older, I enjoy the quiet and intimate gatherings like this more. (This year, I spent my 4th sitting on a park slope, watching fireflies and catching the larger fireworks erupting over trees from the state capital, with my boyfriend and whomever else happened to walk along the park walkway. Nice, quiet, and zero traffic - always a plus!)

[lilmartini]

Yawp. She friended me on FB and is threatening to show me your cross dressing pictures from your childhood.