Fire Festival
Greetings, especially runnergirl (I KNOW WHO YOU ARE NOW - MUAHAHAA) and Steel Wool.
Back from the Surprise Party. A Dear Friend has graduated Fire Academy, received his state certification and lost 150 pounds of Evil Wife. Certainly cause for much celebration all the way around. Anyway, much fun was had by all, many thanks to runnergirl for being such a nifty hostess and a shout out to Jill1 for keeping me awake on the long ride home.
So...you know those lovely, handsome, brave & strong FireFighters upon whom we count to Save Our Lives and Property when disaster strikes?
COMPLETE NUTTERS, ALL of them.
Now, Runnergirl had arranged a lovely party, grilled meat, nice salsa (sorry again, btw - will aim the bottles differently next time), much nifty snacking and of course BEER. Lovely cake brought by firefighter buddies of the Dear Friend featuring a crashed motorcycle on fire.
Fine.
Then...the evening's entertainment.
Firefighters. Ladies and Gentlemen trained in the art and science of fire, LIGHTING SMALL WOODEN TOY HOUSES ON FIRE with TORCH FUEL...OUTSIDE where NORMAL PEOPLE could see...and then having contests as to whom could put them out First. Fabio won all rounds, although the last round featured a Wooden House that was still merrily on Fire. So HOW did the 4 trained firefighters present DEAL with the burning house???
Did they MOVE the bottle of torch fuel?
Did they DOUSE it with the HOSE??
....
...
No.
They played soccer with it.
I am SO relieved that these fine People are responsible for Our Safety, aren't you?
All in, a fine time was had by all, despite the Dolphins' loss to the Panthers, which will be a cause of much lamenting and gnashing of teeth when I wake up.
Back home far too late (or early, depending on your point of view), and the Darling Man was glad to see us safely returned to the nest.
Well darlings, off to "work".
Hugs,
Alysoun
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The rantings of an insane pelican....
2 comments:
That about sums it all up!! I do think everyone had a great time!!
I was fine with flaming soccer in my front yard....and the neighbors? Well besides the fact that they all seem to be pretty cool I really think they figured something was wrong with me when I started hitting tires on a stick in my back yard and go running out of the house in a tabard on Sunday mornings, and driving around with spears sticking out of the back of my truck some weekends.... Yeah the neighbors wrote me off as weird a long time ago.
I was starting to be afraid that they, having consumed said beer, might have used organic masculine methods to extinguish the flames *cough*. Ahem. So to speak.
In a front yard, that'd be a wee bit objectionable.
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