Bringing in the ‘08!!

So last night to celebrate bringing in the New Year we had a family gathering. A feast followed by some fireworks is how we left the past year and brought in the new year.

Although the night was filled with much excitement. For starters I was out there cooking the bar-b-q and some of the orange cinders flew up and almost got me in the eye but I pulled one of those Neo moves still got me right below my eye though but all is good. So finally got all that cooking done after about a good 3-4 hours. Cooking out in the cold is not always the best it takes forever .

So after all of that everyone was ready to sit down and eat well I had been "taste testing" all the meat so by the time it was ready to eat I was done. I still ate a small portion of food.

Now it was around 11:30 CST. the kids were itching to get out there and ignite the fireworks. While we were out there we could already hear fireworks going off everywhere and also gunshots. We got all setup out by the front driveway and most were under the carport I was not and then got hit on the shoulder with what appeared to be pellets from a shotgun that came spraying from above (I dislike people that shoot firearms up into the air). It did not hurt however we heard all the other pellets hit the top of the carport I was not really amused any longer about being outdoors with that going on. However the kids wanted the show to go on.

We all started off by giving the kids some sparklers and letting them light up some bottle rockets and roman candles. At first they were holding the bottle rockets in their hands (not smart) until one of them came back and into the crowd under the carport and scattered everyone around trying to get away from this bottle rocket that was about to pop. After that we really did not let the kids handle the fireworks that were of that nature. We had a bunch of fireworks left over as it was getting colder and later and we decided to call it a night. I am leaving out the part where we shot a firearm, NOT IN THE AIR! We took it outback and shot off some rounds into the ground where we had the ant problem we figured that should scare them and keep them away All in all despite all the excitement it was fun and memorable. Looking forward to the next time we get to fire things up, oh wait that will be this coming weekend when we take the Christmas tree down and burn it outside….yaaaaaayyy

 

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