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Miss those M/80’s, Cherry Bombs & Silver Salutes!

Neighbors have three little kids and they bought four or five fountains to thrill them. I bought a $60 assortment to add to that. But I was gobsmacked at the prices. There were literally hundreds of individual devices priced anywhere from $50 to $200 EACH. No damn wonder it was pretty quiet around here last night. My assortment has three or four fountains and the same number of aerials. The rest are junk like sparklers, smoke bombs, and those black snake things.

Oh, and this is the first year in a long time that fireworks of any kind are allowed in my area of town due to drought.

I’m in Wisconsin for 12 days giving the various teams a break. I heard something shooting off last few nights but I’m not sure how close to Appleton I am. Think I’m fairly close. Janesville area, can’t recall last time I flew to Appleton if I came through Madison. Sorta think Chicago but with too many flights a week I can’t remember much accurately.

Looks like I flew through Milwaukee last time. I’m 100 miles out so must have been some locals having fun.

RR, I recall buying some out of season for my daughters first birthday. Jokers were probably $150/each out of season. Wasn’t legal where we lived then. Told my wife I’d just light one. It was a Grand Finale type and kids still talk about it.

Actually I’m surprised they haven’t jumped in price. I recall a coworker 15 years ago or more would spend $2-3k on them and seems they’ve gotten better quality but similar price.

Where we are now has the drone display. Looks pretty cool but I’m not there to take kids.

Private fireworks displays are illegal here. Within city limits, prohibited by city ordinance. Outside the city limits, fire season has already started.

What I sometimes do is wait 'til the 5th or 6th, buy the discounted fireworks, and save them for New Years when it's so wet you couldn't light gasoline with a blow torch.

I've got the irrigation running .. I've watered the hay field, woods out away from the house, lawn on one side, and lawn on the other is .. hey, sprinklers just quit, so it's time to do that now! Later ...

That sounds very American

Fireworks? Nada! But a condom full of oxygen and acetylene makes a bang better than a pound of Tannerite, and the gas costs less than a nickel!

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In Utah, they sell more fireworks for July 24th than the 4th. That's our "Pioneer Day" when ol' Brigham supposedly entered the promised land saying "This is the place." (My theory is that his #1 wife told him "The first time we see water, that's the place, you ass.")

In which decade did your family stop telling you where Thanksgiving dinner would be?

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PS-Love the freeloading.

That’s funny Rock.

Happy 4th.

Adult Kids come over now and bring the safe n' sane BS over the weekend

Used to go watch the the Barron Hilton display out in the Delta for several decades.

Sandwich maker and I will sit on the porch this evening and watch the Local Minor BBall team extravaganza about a mile away.

Kids bring food now as well.

So California doesn’t allow you to shoot fireworks? Got it?

As O'le Rush would say, "Zilch, Zero, Nada"!!!

Well they got them laws and such, never seems to do much good from what I see, LOL.

LOL. Need a video,