Celebrate July 4th ! ! !

I've got a seldom used pool...but it sure looks nice. Grandkids sometimes showup.
I always put on a big fire works display at the bottom of my drive-way (in the turn-around). The only time we don't do it is if we are in a dry spell. Buy them the year before at half price...a few hundred bucks is no big deal.

The fireworks "law" in South Florida is: Florida also allows most types of consumer fireworks. The state specifically prohibits, however, firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, roman candles, daygo bombs and any fireworks containing explosive or flammable compounds."

Here, on the eastern outskirts of the city of Dania (between Fort Lauderdale & Hollywood) is a very large store where you can purchase almost anything. Giant mortars several inches in diameter that would rival a Disney mortar, etc. If memory serves me correctly, the purchaser has to show identification, and may be required to sign an affidavit of some sort saying they are being exported. Like, um, that's going to stop someone from buying those mortars, etc, huh?

Plenty of firecrackers, and noisemakers too, butt, they do not carry my personal teenage years+ favorite, "Cherry Bombs". The availability, and selection is staggering. Prepackaged firework DIY "shows", in monster cartons, are priced at $1,000 plus! I also seem to recall they always have a "BOGO" sale going on. Guys get to the register - checkout area with a several shopping carts, and spend, literally thousands.

I can't speak for all of Florida but here in Tampa you sign an affidavit stating they are going to be used for agricultural purposes, iow scaring birds away from your crops.

Here in Va. ya have to go to Pa. also to get firewaorks. Phantom always has a BOGO offer going on so a couple of big sets is only a couple hundred bucks and you end w/ a boatload of cool stuff.

A few years back we always went to a friends house who would have a big party ,he had a huge backyard to set 'em off inIt was a pretty perfect set up. One particular year the cops showed up and gave us the usual spiel about how theyw ere illegal, blah blah blah. He could care less, he had to do it because someone had called and complained.OK. So we toned it down to firecrackers and whatnot and his neighbor comes raging over yelling and screaming about the noise. My friend was really cool with him, inviting him back for a beer, food and join in the fun. The guy would have absolutely none of it, kept yelling and bitching despite all of our attempts to welcome him, then he blurts out the firewaorks are distracting him from watching a NASCAR race he had taped. HUH?!?!?! Seriously? you have TAPED race you wanna watch rather join in the fun over here and worse kill it for evereyone else here. Tempers flared up after that, it took the level headedness of my friend to keep it civil. The guy;s lucky he didn't get his ass kicked really.