Which Reminds Me

When we were living in El Salvador, where fireworks of all kinds are perfectly legal, unlike in the U.S., my Dad used a piece of wood and metal pipe to build a small cannon which we used to shoot of silbadores, which are the whistling type of firecrackers. If you just light them on the ground they go crazy in all directions and you have to jump out of the way, but if you shoot them off in the little cannon they go straight up in the air, directed away in a cleaner way so that we don't have to worry about them circling back around and hitting us. Down there fireworks are shot off at Christmas and New Year's. Their independence day is in September so they wouldn't understand too much about July 4.