Do to the large number of justified comments related to my lagging on blogging, I apologize and am here once again for you all. I have been working on a couple of online classes over the summer which come to an end in just over a week, so the future of this blog is once again bright. But tonight I could not help but enjoy myself almost entirely too much do to the incredible East Helena 4th of July experience. Most of the time on the fourth we go to this show, which really does remind me of the small town feel of MT. We go and along with everyone else park in the middle of an open field. Then everyone lights off all of their fire crackers. At first you feel a little unsafe with explosions going off all around you, but you get used to it. By the end you really see the true beauty of a 360 degree panoramic of fire crackers all around you, in the sky on the ground, parachutes falling, kids running to catch them, kids running away from the fire cracker they just lit. One of my favorite parts is that when you drive in you have to be careful not to get hit by fire crackers being lit on the road. And people don’t appreciate it when you do light them on the road. I mean why wouldn’t you light your fire crackers in the middle of a field of tall grass. I see no problem in that. The actual show is average at best. But the continuous stream of fire crackers before, throughout and after the whole show all around you is priceless. Tonight God even chipped in with a beautiful gold and red sunset, as well as large bolts of lightening to serve as backlighting. I was sitting watching all of this happen around me and thats when it hit me… I felt like I was living in the Sandlot for a minute. The one night a year when the sky is bright enough for a night game.
