Fireworks and my dog.

[northwest]

If I knew where that was, the dog wouldn't be there when they got back.

 

[JimmyS]

I fire some organised displays, but haven't done as many this year. Last one for me fired yesterday and all went ok with no issues thankfully. Just had one 5" shell which didn't lift and had to be dealt with.

Thankfully the silly season is over for me, quite a bit of work in setting up, not to mention clearing up etc afterwards.

 

[JimmyS]

Our local village had theirs on Saturday but we get a really good view from home so didn't bother going down. Two labs were sitting on the edge of the top lawn just watching them nonplussed but then they normally enjoy sitting there in the summer lording it over the view. The mongrel was pacing back and forth but that's his default state other than barking at visitors.

We went down to the bigger fireworks in the local town last night and they had it "to music". Ruined what would have been a half decent display. It wasn't timed in any real way to the music and the music was deafening even with my fingers in my ears that you couldn't hear the fireworks. Not sure we'll be going back to those ones.

someone trying to do it to music on an unrealistic budget - probably still wasn't cheap. It doesn't really work having to use cakes etc as you cant get the timing right firing a cake that just does it own thing for 30 seconds for example. It needs single shot stuff individually ematched, electronically fired and linked to the music tracks otherwise its a mess, trouble it its quite time consuming to set up and the fireworks themselves are more expensive so it just costs a fortune to do.

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

They used to bother the ancient border but she’s deaf now. Roo is used to driven shoots so they dont even register