Dogs Doing Cute Things

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I really wanted a video of dogs launching bottle rockets, but I just couldn’t find it anywhere. Please let me know if you have one. Meanwhile, we must be content with mere canine cuteness.

4 comments on “Dogs Doing Cute Things”

  1. Nice video.

    I don’t have any bottle rockets stories about dogs, but I have one about people. If you want to read it (3 paragraphs) let me know.

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    1. I should probably have outgrown bottle rockets by now, but I still have a few put by for special occasions.
      Of course I’d like to read your story.

  2. This is from a future book manuscript I working on, if I ever get it done, about life in the Philippines.

    Fireworks

    Back in the States during the 4th of July celebrations, most major fireworks shows take place in parks. They do not celebrate the fourth here, no matter, during Christmas and New Year’s Eve there will be fireworks displays. However, there was a massive problem in our town, for everyone was putting on displays, and until they put a stop to it a few years ago. During both nights, “all hell” would break out. So many fireworks went off, it sounded like a war was raging, the smell of sulfur filled the air, and heavy yellow smoke hung over the whole town. On those nights, starting around 7 or 8 in the evening it didn’t matter where you looked, fireworks were exploding in the sky, on the ground, and there was the incessant pop of firecrackers and bottle rockets taking off, going in every direction, and this lasted until one or two in the morning (because we are on the equator, it gets dark about six o’clock in the evening all year round).

    Every year fireworks caused fires, and one or more houses or businesses would go up in flames. The last year before they put a halt to this chaos, two roadside fireworks stores, adjacent to each other burnt-up, in a display few have seen before. By the time daylight commenced, both stores, a few motorcycles parked in front, the town’s Department of Agrarian Reform building located across the street, along with its van, had become charred, smoking ruins.

    The blaze started in one of the stores when someone out front, lit the fuse of a bottle rocket. But instead of a journey toward the stars, it took a short, non-scheduled flight back into the store where it had been purchased. When the rocket flew in, everyone sprinted out of that store! We live a mile away, and from our apartment, we could hear loud cracking and popping, and explosions. We thought someone was putting on a wild, massive display of fireworks, for it went on for almost half an hour, a machine-gun, rapid-fire sound without let-up. That display would have rivaled any Grand Finale I have ever seen.

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