Flashback Friday

Tuesday is the Fourth of July, but here around The Compound, people have been shooting off fireworks for over a week.  Every night when we go to bed, it sounds like we're in the war zone.  But I digress.

I was reminiscing today back to when I was a kid and had a messy fascination with the snakes. 

All they were was a little black disk that you lit with a match, and they would sprawl out into a long, curvy snake of black ash.  And they would leave a big old black mess on the driveway.  Many a time I got in trouble for lighting the snakes on the nice clean driveway.  But it sure was fun.