Mama Kat Thursday: 4th of July Memories
Wiener roasting, roasting marshmallows for S'mores & running through the dark with sparklers was what our 4th of July celebration was like in the 60's and early 70's. We lived on heavily forested property just off a state road in Indiana, where gun-powder based fireworks are illegal. We usually just purchased the legal ones sold in the grocery stores that contained assorted large and smaller sparklers, glow worms and smoke bombs. Our "fire pit" we used for roasting wieners was usually 6 cinder blocks stacked as an open ended rectangle and we'd build a fire in the middle. Being made of cinder blocks, it could be moved, so our "fire pit" enjoyed being in several locations. Since we lived in the country, sticks and branches were readily available, so we 3 girls would search along the edge of the woods, collecting armfuls. We were experts at building fires, criss-crossing small tinder first, then adding sticks of increasing size on top....