Blackbird is back from his sister's place in Baton Rouge--it rained on our Fourth--but luckyly my nephew had a big ole pack of "water proof" firecrackers---we could lite um in the rain!
Speakin' of firecrackers--I like to celebrate with um--but Blackbird remembers an experience he had as a young un--had some firecrackers---just old enough that daddy didn't need to supervise(Blackbird never needs much nor needed much when he was young)---anyway, the last thing daddy said was, "Don't lite um in your hand and throw um! Set um on the ground and then lite um!"
"Yes, Sir! Daddy!"
Well!!!!!!! You guessed it! Soon as Daddy went inside--ole Blackbird started litin' um in his hand--then throwin' um---tryin' to get um to "Pop" in the air---the concussion and report sounded neater when they went off in the air!
Well, blasted if I didn't let one of um go off in my hand! And to add insult to injury---my hand was "rared back" in the throwin' position----right beside Blackbird's right ear!!!
You talk about huuuuuuuuuuuurt!!!!!!!!! Then I tried to "hide" the injury---struttin' around like it didn't hurt---but it did!!! Then I went to school the next day and the teacher couldn't figure out why Blackbird couldn't hold a pencil in his right hand!!! The teacher knew that Blackbird never had trouble holdin' on to his pencil before!!! Then she wondered why Blackbird couldn't HEAR the question the first time but found she had to repeat it just for Blackbird---especially if she was on the left side of the room!!!!
You know, I still have that problem!! To this day, I still like to lite firecrackers and throw um--tryin' to get um to pop in mid air!!
Blackbird
