The Rocket's Red Glare

[murasaki99]

Well, we seem to have survived the night of the young pyromaniacs. Our town still allows people to buy and set off fireworks for the Fourth of July celebration, and so most of the evening is spent in a haze of gunsmoke and the sound of mortar rounds and screaming shells going off. Some of the displays were quite beautiful, but I at least get a

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[x_expat]

Looks like good progress!

Yeah, my neighbors (the deranged ones) didn't set the neighborhood on fire despite their best efforts last night. The street is full of firework debris and their lawn chairs are still in their driveway while they sleep off their hangovers. I sat on the porch steps for a while last night and watched the show.

[murasaki99]

So far, so good. Maybe tomorrow or sometime this week the trusses for the roof will show up, and then the shingles for the roof -- then it will look very house-like from the exterior. :)

Glad you got through the 4th unsinged. It is always a worry when you have kids (and adults) playing with gunpowder and stuff that can make fires.

[centaurg]

Good suggestion on the surge protector! And from the location, Murasaki's all set to plug in her future electric car from a convenient location...

Over here, fireworks can be had in any quantity and about any type at the Muckleshoot Reservation, but most types are now illegal in town. So this 4th was about the quietest and least smoky I can remember.

[murasaki99]

I didn't know they made surge suppressors for the whole house. I'll ask the electrician, thanks!

Out here it varies by county and town whether or not you can have fireworks, but that doesn't stop people from bringing them in and setting them off in places where they shouldn't.

[kayshapero]

We wound up staying home and watching the fireworks displays from our bedroom window. There were at least three and maybe five this year; the one from the North jetty was still by far the most spectacular, but it looks like we've got some new ones, and they weren't doing too badly. After which all the usual pops, bangs and whizzes from around the neighborhood. Leastwise the folks with the bottle rockets moved years ago. I can recall sitting up half the night just to make sure nobody set fire to the house.

[murasaki99]

Hooray for getting through the 4th with no fires! Especially now when things are so dry.

[_steelphoenix_]

That's looking really good, swift progress indeed from the last pictures. :) When'd you get an iPhone? They look really shiny. :)

How are the cats reacting to the builders and so on, out of curiosity?

[murasaki99]

I'm hoping the roof trusses arrive this week, then it will look even more "house-like".

I got an iPhone back in March or so when my not-so-old Motorola up and died without warning. Turns out they don't repair them like I thought.