“Decorating my bike and going on a parade in our neighborhood when I was a little kid.”
“The first time I ever lit a sparkler because I definitely was scared; when I conquered that I was pretty happy.”
“Barbecues at my grandma’s house, in the yard playing horseshoes.”
“Hanging out with the family. We lived in North Dakota and would always go out into the country and shoot fireworks”
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Comments
Gart 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Starting it off with a good bang......
oldvet 10 months, 3 weeks ago
+++
Gart 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Saudi's......Celebrate our 4th? O.k... Please tell me what I am missing.
somedude20 10 months, 3 weeks ago
I am guessing she is with Matt Lawson living there. He use to be the head chef at Dempsey's (and a really stand-up nice cat as well) but took a gig in Saudi chefting and sadly went away. Dempsey's rocks!
Gart 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Is that that Sheen boy? He seems to pop up anywhere he can these days, I guess.
milkman_dan 10 months, 3 weeks ago
A picture is worth a thousand words.
somedude20 10 months, 3 weeks ago
so is a small bathing suit on a young attractive female
boxers_or_briefs 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Having wisdom.
CWGOKU 10 months, 3 weeks ago
None, except for maybe getting my punk lit. Kami, call me.
Ronnie24 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Gathering with family and friends. The best part was the water fights... Started by my dad every time !
RoeDapple 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Yesterday? The carnage . . . .
grammaddy 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Favorite memory would have to be the year we dug a pit and roasted a full pig in it. Digging the thing up was big fun. We scorched a couple of the fruit trees along the back fence, but the following year, the pears came back bigger and sweeter than ever. And the meat fell off the bone.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 10 months, 3 weeks ago
I have no recollection.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 10 months, 3 weeks ago
prospector,
Maybe or could be just the Lawrence Energy Center.
Clean coal... brush fire... hard to tell the difference from a distance.
But it does look dirtier...
So. Yes.
WereAllMonkeys 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Being on the hill south of the stadium and the big shells exploding maybe 50' off the ground and being surrounded by the burning parts of the explosion. I still think they were doing it on purpose because we didn't pay to sit in the stadium.
CWGOKU 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Tomorrow... "What is your favorite lawn gnome?"
rockchalker52 10 months, 3 weeks ago
bearded
brutus 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Having a coffee can full of Black Cats and blowing up ant hills.
snap_pop_no_crackle 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Sitting in a park by the river in Austin listening to the symphony play the 1812 Overture. Cannons were involved.
rockchalker52 10 months, 3 weeks ago
O_Bob, that whole comment reads like a soft porn excerpt from a jaded husband's memoir. Kudos!
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 10 months, 3 weeks ago
If you are a Starship Trooper you shower with chicks.
riverdrifter 10 months, 3 weeks ago
In 1957 my dad and several others were setting off the fireworks for the show in Baldwin. A short round landed right in the large wooden crate where the mortars were and the whole thing went off in seconds. There was no wind and in a few minutes they all appeared out of a wall of white smoke and made a sweeping bow to the crowd in the stadium. They got a standing ovation. Nobody was hurt.
scaramouchepart2 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Getting to be home with my husband watching on the greatest musicals most have never heard. 1776.
somedude20 10 months, 3 weeks ago
When I was a small yute, my parents and I would each eat 6 grams of bath salts and then walk around the town trying to find the perfect face to eat. These hot temps would be perfect as it would cook the face a little to release its full flavor
That or skinny dipping with the girl of the moment at Lake Perry and swallowing some "water" and having the poops for a week (better than a flesh eating bacteria though)
labmonkey 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Roe...
You gave me a good idea yesterday that I will have to do next time I go to my parents... I have a cooler full of old, skunky beer cans from a Chiefs game a couple years ago. I need to load them up and explode them with the Nagant, the AK, and the AR near one of my parents' ponds.
RoeDapple 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Cool! We had a case of root beer left over from a birthday party 4 years ago. Make sure it's been sitting in the sun for a while, really adds to the effect. Also gives the range a nice root beer scent for a while. Next year? Strawberry! Be sure to take something to put the resulting carnage (trash) in when your done.
riverdrifter 10 months, 3 weeks ago
I've got a jar of kim chee with an expiration date of 7-2008 that I'll contribute. That ought to be a real gas.
rockchalker52 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Just up until last year, I had a gallon jar of sliced jalapenos that I bought in 1991. That thing mighta blowed up pretty good if somebody shot it. Icaintalkaboutit but I ain't got the jar no more.
kuguardgrl13 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Growing up in Pittsburgh, PA, with Zambelli fireworks displays. They're considered to be some of the best in the country, so yesterday's display at the Kaw was kind of lackluster for me. Maybe I'll head to KC or Wichita next year. Although I will say the Party in the Park was fun.
CHEEZIT 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Shooting fireworks!
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