J-Joe - Thank you Sir, and to you and yours too, as Janice indicated.
Auburn Annie - I agree about the kids and dogs. Our Siberian Husky, who died this year, went through 16 years of sheer terror at these noises; the vet would have to "sedate" her, or we'd head to the mountains and visit my folks in years past on the edge of RM Nat'l Park for a deck cook-out.
The fire potential is incredible here in central Colorado, as we are in what's called the "Red Zone" in our state as defined by the local ag University.
There are so many homes here on steep hillsides in the foothills to the peaks that without mitigation of the ladder-fuels, etc., we are statistically just waiting to go up in uphill-flames. And the cheap-a** developers have done to many "one way in and out" roads in mountainous subdivisions here.
I'd usually be out hosing down my roof and trees most of any 4th we'd stay home. It's a shame, as I recall how much fun it was when i was little to light those 'crackers.
But even as a kid, I DID worry about that "whoosh" of the uncontrolled trajectoy of the bottle rockets.
A local news channel here stated that most structural fires in Colorado are caused on the 4th by SPARKLERS, of all things. weird.
Brink - agreed - and what is more, when I was 10 or so, all sparklers/whirleygiggs etc. were supervised by my parents, and THAT is a thing of the past, by and large - parental supervision.
Why.. by dingees , back in MY day.... LOL
- Steve
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