That blowed up real good! Hey Vern watch this…

Posted By KJ ~ 2nd July 2009

4th of July.  Celebrate our American Independence, our freedoms…our love of country…

Right.

Everyone knows that July 4th is just for blowing stuff up anymore.  And drinking beer.  And throwing some meats and other delectable treats on the grill whilst a bunch of guys stand around and stare at it.

And drinking beer.

We live in a part of the country where fireworks are legal.  You can still go to one of the 854 stands put up by the various churches and boy scouts and crippled civil war veterans societies and girl scouts and the drug addled weirdos of jackson county and buy some stuff to blow up.  Our across the street neighbors take full advantage of this.  And then some.

Every year Blue Springs puts on a fireworks show at the high school, which is about 1/2 of a mile away.  We generally have a big blowout or go to a friends house just down the road and watch the show.  Then we always go back to our house and watch the real show that our across the street neighbors put on.

These are nice people, don’t get me wrong, but still….

They spent thousands of dollars last year on fireworks and put on a show that rivaled the bombing of Hiroshama, only with margianlly less death.  Fireworks the size of small European cars where detonated in the middle of the street leaving craters the size of donkeys and burn marks that made the street look like the space shuttle Atlantis had to make an emergency landing.  Which for all I know, they may have arranged for that to happen.  I don’t know.  I went and hid in my basement with some tinfoil on my head.

I’m sure the same will be this year, we’re having the party and some of our friends like to blow stuff up as well.  So wish us luck and I hope that we can keep all of our appendages.

And drink some beer.