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Draco interdum Vincit
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After a very confusing evening, I feel the need for some decent coffee, but as it's nigh on bed-time, I think a cup of Tea is best.
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They say that our smoke is coming all the way from Prescott (central AZ).
So fireworks are okay, right?
Fireworks are not permitted in Prescott or Prescott Valley, but you can have the smaller stuff on your private property outside of city limits, which is pretty dumb, since that is either the dry pines or the dry grass areas. Even a sparkler can start a fire. My house is just outside of the city limits, so I sure hope my neighbors don't do anything stupid since the area is prime for fire.
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I haven't even seen fireworks for sale around here...
One of the more impressive things I've ever seen was in your neck o' the woods:
4th of July - 2006, IIRC. My wife and I were staying at the Towne Place Suites near the airport. We had a suite on the top floor that faced west - and we could see right over that wide, shallow valley of Albuquerque, to the distant mesas.
That night, sitting in our room, we could see at least 8 separate fireworks displays around the town - mostly held at schools, I think. And at the same time, on the distant western horizon, there was a dry-lightning storm. It was as if God was saying "is that all you've got? Hold my beer..."
Coolest 4th of July display we've ever seen.
I live in the middle of that wide, shallow valley. At that time we would have fireworks shows all around us. I was never really sure, but I expect they were more at churches than at schools. There may have been different settings, but around here life is organized by the Catholic Church.
Nature does have the best fireworks. In a summer near the end of my undergraduate years I sat on a rock with two equally-stoned friends and we watched a thunderstorm approach over the Black Hills. It walked on long legs, and each lightening strike was closer then the last.
Then we noticed that the fizzy-haired guy in the middle had his hair standing on end. We got off the rock a minute or so before the lightening hit. We watched from the car, smoked a little more, and were happy.
I'm not forgetting that.
And another week has flown by, Happy Friday. everyone.
Fresh coffee and kettle is ready.
We have two groups down by the lake that try to outdo each other with fireworks and from the sounds of things, ever so often a little added gunfire. Last night was a point in case.
Chores or writing? Now there is a loaded question.
Happy Friday! Now that party down by the lake sounds like my kind of fun in my misspent youth. I have fond memories of sitting on the front of an old pickup hanging onto with one hand and shooting one handed at eyes in the grass that the guy in the passenger side was spotlighting at midnight down some back road. Drunk Chinese girl with rifle and 4 guys in a pickup = extreme danger. Lol. I hadn't remembered that one in a long time. Got home and got grounded. My dad called my boyfriends dad. That was a shtf nite. Dad was mad!
I need that coffee now! Oh the horror! Oh the stupidity of youth! Shudders!
I learned to shoot accurately killing the rats out of the corn crib with a .22 long rife with open sights. My redheaded, long legged female cousin (Where my love of redheads first came to light) and I would lay in the barn loft door where we had an excellent view of three sides of the corn crib. We traded the gun back and forth. Five kills without a miss got a kiss. The barn cats were well fed.
I bet. Yikes! It wasn't 2,500 acres, but my brother caught our back yard on fire with fireworks once. "Laws" got strict also, as far as I remember.A fews years ago a couple kids playing with firecrackers started a fire that burned about 2500 acres of cottonwood forest right in the middle of town. After that the fireworks laws got very strict.
Hope you get good news from that. Fingers crossed for you.I'm pretty sure the highlight of my weekend is going to be an MRI.
I was reminiscing with a friend just last week, and we were recalling some of our brainless youth moments. We were like, "How the heck did we survive that?!? Shudders for sure!Oh the stupidity of youth! Shudders!
I'm pretty sure the highlight of my weekend is going to be an MRI.
I was reminiscing with a friend just last week, and we were recalling some of our brainless youth moments. We were like, "How the heck did we survive that?!? Shudders for sure!
Gee. My big risk for the day was trying the Yellowtail Shiraz.
Gee. My big risk for the day was trying the Yellowtail Shiraz.
Should you care to make the drinking a little more exciting, mAy I humbly recommend snorting vodka. Take a small cap, fill with vodka. Snort. The alcohol vaporizes in your lungs. Tried it once. After I could see again I chased down the asshole (my boyfriend back then) and damaged him. Of course if you try this, I disclaim all responsibility. Definitely. It I want to watche the video clip.