Saturday, July 5, 2008

Showers of Sparks

We live in the most patriotic neighborhood in country. Each July 4th our streets are filled with fiery Ground Flowers, Whistling Petes and numerous illegal varieties of fireworks smuggled in from Evanston.

The whole area is quickly covered with a nasty smoky haze limiting visibility to 7-13 feet. This morning when I woke up my lips smacked of sulphur.

Here is a picture I took out of the front window at 11:43 p.m. last night.



Later, I swear the neighbors were firing guns into the air and shouting like excited Iraqis. Luckily the air machine in the bedroom makes a delightful whooshing noise that drowns out gunfire.

God bless our patriot neighbors, and God bless the United States of America. Amen.