Now don’t you wish you’d been there?
The celebration at netmouse‘s house was just great. I helped make the deviled eggs, which tided us over until the veggies and dip, which tided us over until the crackers and cheese, which kept us going until the cookies came out, which kept us pretty well stuffed until the ribs and corn were ready. Did I mention she cooked the ribs all night? They were awesome.
We watched many episodes of Firefly, skipping some of the unhappier ones as we went along. We even made it to the 4th disc before it was time to run outside and light off fireworks. We cheered at the best lines, and even applauded once.
The massage-fests were happening in every corner, with shirts in various states of disarray. Which is generally the best state for shirts to be in, IMHO.
The fireworks had the kaboom and the pow! As generally happens with fireworks that are (mostly) legal, we ended up tying the wicks together for some of the really small stuff, and setting off groups of sparklers placed in the ground. Funny enough, it was never these “homebrews” that caused me to fear for my life. ;) I did not have to fear for my car, because I did not drive.
I’m sure netmouse has plenty of pictures of the fireworks part of the evening … because I stole her camera and made it so. :) Hopefully, a few of them are worth posting.
And now, showered and freshly shorn, I’m off to work!
It was never the homebrews that made you fear, but possibly only because you were on the porch. ;)
The occasional bunch of jumping jacks going off **IN** the rest of the firework pile… that’s exciting.
I had a blast. :) I wish I hadn’t taken off when I did, though, as I wound up missing the Great Oak fireworks. *sigh* I hope there’s some residual fireworks going off this weekend, so I can get my fix…
Only downside to the deviled eggs were the, ahem, fumes. I’m just going to leave it at that. ;)