When we decided we were coming to Mom’s, we brought a whole bag full of sparklers and smoke bombs that were left over from the 4th of July. It’s much easier to shoot them off here on The Mountain, and I knew Sio would have fun playing with the fireworks. No, I didn’t bring them down for me! 🙂
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So fireworks we did, blowing through 16 boxes of sparklers, a bag of smoke bombs, and a box of snakes, all inside of 30 minutes. We did single sparklers, and a few at a time — I even tried a whole box at once…. and promptly threw them across the driveway when they exploded into the most brilliant blue flame!
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As we started cleaning up the mess, it began to gently — then more seriously — snow on us. What a wonderful treat — our first snow of the year! We frolicked in the lightly falling snow and enjoyed its presence. Sio even made a snowball that she threw not just once (at Grandma), but twice (at Darla). Molly promptly ate that same first snowball of Winter 2003.