Last summer at my friend Brad's house (not anyone you guys know), we blew up a massive amount of illegal fireworks, including seal control. Did two in the pool and did three others out in the street.

Scared. The. Piss. Out. Of. Me.

yeah, those are pretty serious. my friends and I buried one in a vacant gravel lot once. set it off. the rocks felt like shotgun pellets hitting us

it was sooo cool

hehehe I understand that there were fireworks at David's house yesterday. His folks told him that he could go to his sister's but he had to leave Dawn and her kids home. They could hear her throwing a major tantrum through the phone when she found out I was invited, but she was not. :)

Then you just need a trip to Explosives Summer Camp.






and I'll bet some of you think I'm making that up....

NPR also did a feature on this

BOOM!

Okay, guys - you're being too interesting. I am going to try and ban myself from coming back here for at least 5 hours. I have too much to do!!!

I fear what and where I would be now if they'd had those camps when I was growing up.

I'd probably be called Fingerless Jack now

Twin Falls on the 4th of July is everything you'd expect it would be. At least there was AC.

CJ had he gone to that camp: