Another 4th of July has come and passed. This one brought with it a lot of fun little projects and new accomplishments.
This was also the first year that I have ever been able to legally buy flying fireworks in a state that I live in. Woohoo! About time.
I may be the worlds only bottle rocket enthusiast!
…A connoisseur of fine Chinese gunpowder.
So now that bottle rockets are finally legal I ordered up a few cases and we went a little crazy. For the last few weeks, we have been flying bottle rockets whenever time permits (even when time doesn’t permit, lol). This weekend we made up some nice little racks to fuse up a few hundred at a time and let them rip. I even dug out the old Crackerjacks tested bottle rocket racks (angry hornets nests. …because the rockets… oh never mind).
Jess and Fwub with a big Firecracker
As you probably already know Jess is a fan of firecrackers so I ordered up a case of 28,000 crackers, and at the fireworks stand they had this really cool pack of 8,000 firecrackers so we had to pick that up also. Jess made a few impressive celebration strings that had the neighbors hooting and hollering for more.
Holly crap did we make a big mess.
The big finale this year was one of Jess’s cracker piles with 20 or so fountains fast fuses all around the fire pit. Somehow none of the fountains lit (Doh!) but the crackers went off with a bang (sorry.. how about they were a blast? .. wait where’s everyone going..)
All in all, I’d say it was a pretty good fourth!
Hope yours was a huge success also!
-Brian
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- Bottle Rocket Rack Collection
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- Close-up of a hundred rockets
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- Shelf to hold the rockets
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- Bottle Rockets Fused and Ready To Go
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- Jess with a 8000 Firecracker Pack.
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- Our oldest rocket rack
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- Fused and Ready to Go
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- Whole-lotta rockets ready
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- Close up of fusing
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- More Whistle Rockets
Brian Paonessa
For the last 10 years I have been an Internet marketer and web developer with a passion for large system integration projects. I've spent the last few years working for a small fireworks company (Skylighter llc) helping individuals and government clients with pyrotechnic projects. my day to day tasks focus mostly on web development tasks and keeping the Skylighter email marketing machine pumping out good content and offers.