Happy New Year

2009 is going to be great. I feel it.

I kicked off the new year with a couple of bangs around midnight. I found a box of fireworks that I have had since I was about 14 or 15 years old (I'm a bit of a pack rat). I lit a couple of the smaller ones, but they were duds, so I thought I would try the big ones. These were bigger than M-80s, and probably aren't made anymore (I got them in Mexico). But they worked.

Wow did they work.

I set off two of them (I have five left). Then I took the only, single bottle rocket that I had, leaned it up against a log, and lit the fuse. I didn't think it would work. I have had this thing for like 30 years! The fuse burned slowly, sputtered a bit like it wanted to go out, then, suddenly, FSSSST! The little bottle rocket took to the night sky, arched over the land, then popped.

It worked! The little rocket that could.

2009 is going to be a great year.
:)