[Leica] Friday flowers of the season

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

 From the time I was 11 I used to make explosives at home. I don't 
_think_ my parents knew about it, but we lived way up in northern 
Alberta in a town of 800, so I'd be surprised if my dad, the doctor 
in the town, didn't hear from the drugstore owner about my purchases. 
In any case after some satisfying explosions I graduated to rockets 
and mixing rocket fuel. When we visited with my grandparents in 
Germany when I was 13 and I made some friends, I showed them how it 
was done. We made this great rocket, launched it from his backyard 
and after it flew out of sight at about 1000ft, realized that we'd 
better not go from house to house asking people if they'd seen a 
rocket land in their back yard. No more firing rockets in downtown 
Hamburg. Peace River country was a lot safer; all you could hit was a 
moose or a bear.



At 8:15 PM -0500 7/1/11, Ken Carney wrote:
>You can make your own.  I have a friend who bought a 10-gauge 
>shotgun shell reloading press to assemble really big M-100's from a 
>kit.  He says dead fish float to the surface when they throw them 
>overboard.  I'll probably see him on the Darwin list sometime.  When 
>I was 12 or so we would make our own black powder (ingredients 
>bought from the local drugstore...Ahmm, son may I ask what you want 
>this for?), and fill two hemispheres of a plunger taped together. 
>The blast effect actually broke a window or two.  Somehow we lived 
>through it.
>
>Ken
>
>On 7/1/2011 7:54 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>  They must still be available, Ken.  Today's local paper had a 
>>report that the police were investigating someone exploding two 
>>toilets in a local park with fireworks.
>>
>>  Jim Nichols
>>  Tullahoma, TN USA
>>  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net>
>>  To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>  Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 7:49 PM
>>  Subject: [Leica] Friday flowers of the season
>>
>>
>>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/seasons.jpg.html
>>>
>>>  Have a good 4th, all.  I really miss the fireworks we could buy 
>>>years ago - cherry bombs that you could flush at high school 
>>>during break, girls running home to change clothes and such.  They 
>>>were like a quarter stick of dynamite.
>>>
>>>  Best,
>>>
>>>  Ken
>>>
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