Fourth of July

This weekend is a great holiday. When I was growing up we always had breakfast in the park on the Fourth. My mother would have scrambled eggs and bacon. After I got married my husband loved the fourth and always got a permit from the city to have fireworks in our backyard. After he died they would not let me have one. When I was at home we got our fireworks from my uncle, who was a druggist. My sister Ethel had a roman candle break in half which kind of ruined the day. I use to collect coffee cans for my children to put in lady fingers and shoot them. Sparklers were wonderful. My grandchildren use to put on plays in the backyard to entertain us until dark on the fourth. As their cousins got older they were added to the cast. If it rained it dampened the night but we shot off night works anyway. One year we went to the fireworks display in Prairie Village that was being held by the swimming pool. It was very short as the first thing they fired felling into the rest of the fireworks and blew it up. We attended many displays there over the years but that was the most exciting although short. When we were in China we watched them making fireworks. I saw a little girl sitting on her stepping fixing lady fingers and thought I should take a movie and run it backwards and I would be able to undo my own lady fingers at home. Ray had worked in a stand growing up and later the man who ran it had wholesale fireworks so Ray would our fireworks at a discount. They are company I think does the big displays around town.