Happy New Year!
My party animal neighbors set off fireworks in the street on every other holiday. Yee-ha!
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What is up with fireworks on New Years Eve - did I miss the memo somewhere? I thought fireworks were only for the 4th of July - or am I just getting that old?
ReplyDeleteMaybe you're just hung over? I think we should shoot fireworks off for casual Friday and National Potato Chip day... for starters, anyway.
ReplyDeleteCelebration creep. Yes!
When we lived in Italy the New Year's fireworks displays were incredible and last about 30 minutes.
ReplyDeleteI think fireworks for casual Friday is a GENUIS idea.
Oooh, I'm liking the Casual Friday Fireworks, too. I like the kind with the big bang, followed by a lot of sizzlers.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'd forgotten about Hogmanay. Apparently New Year's IS a pagan holiday (Solstice), changed to the current day with the switch to the Gregorian calendar. You're supposed to open your doors and windows for the last mins of the year and yell and clash post (and set off fireworks?) to drive out the spirits of the old year.
So, uh, Happy Hogmanay! I guess you'll be old-spirit-free thanks to your neighbours. :)
Maybe we could do fireworks for National Fire Safety Day.
Blah. Clash *pots*, not post. :-/
ReplyDeletelogophile - when I lived in Little Italy there were incredible fireworks (though some of it may have been gunfire)
ReplyDeleteCandace - Fireworks on casual Friday is good, but on National Fire Safety Day is, well, transcendent. Happy Hogmanay! May 07 be a banner year for open doors, windows, and most of all noisy posts!
Love fireworks,especially when our neighbours celebrate The Last Day of Holidays,Gum Boot Throwing Day,Flowering of The Daffodils and The Rising of The Moon.
ReplyDeleteThey used to have fireworks for The Daily Laying of Eggs,but it put the chooks off their nests.
Happy Pot Clashing for Hogmanay :)
Sorry dude ... did I keep you up with those? :)
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Bugs - wow , fireworks to celebrate the Flowering of The Daffodils is over the top - I like it.
ReplyDeleteDan - welcome, and bon appetit!
I had no idea that we lived on the same street.
ReplyDeleteYou should see about lobbing mortars at them next year.
ReplyDeleteYes! Those are the good kind of fireworks.
ReplyDeletejustjock - small world, isn't it?
ReplyDeletesnay - (slapping forehead) all this time I was lobbing quarters at them.
grunt - yup, those be them.