It was a glorious 58 F this morning in Sunset. That's gotta be a record. We slept with the AC off and the windows open last night. Even the frogs in my pond were singing loudly to celebrate the cool temperatures.
Yesterday, I picked beans and my wife helped me pick blackeyes. We got a 5-gal bucket of blackeyes. My grandson picked over a gallon of cherry tomatoes and then we picked big tomatoes. All our window knick-knacks are big tomatoes. The refrigerator is full too, even after giving loads of tomatoes to our neighbors. These are cellphone photos with horrible lighting, but I think you can get the idea.
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We drove to a place near Wichita Falls yesterday to buy fireworks for the 4th. The prices easily paid for the drive. Their prices seemed to be a 3rd to half off from other places around Bowie. They don't sell premium Black Cat fireworks, but their fireworks are new and the sales staff is extremely knowledgeable. I came into their place with a list I'd made from their brochure and my salesman kept thanking me for making his job so easy. He said he loves people with lists.
BTW: Traditional bottle rockets have been outlawed in Texas for a long time (at least two years). That's the small and medium sized rockets that caused a lot of burns on kid's hands and fires because people did stupid things with them. Now, they do still have the big rockets on long sticks, but even those seem to be falling out of favor. If I had stuff falling on me from my neighbors, I'd be upset too. I shoot fireworks over water in a very safe area. I used to have big parties with 45 to 50 people, but I've quit doing that because it's too hard on my wife and me. We now just have family and fireworks with 10 people or less. We don't shoot onto anyone else's property and we come back and completely clean up the morning of the 5th. Being responsible and reasonable with fireworks will keep them around for a long time. Otherwise, they may be banned completely.
