4Th of July was terrible this year @ the beginning of the night it was bad. It got better @ the end of the night. I had the day off that day it was pretty cool, because I rarely have days off to sleep in late. Well 8 AM is late I guess. I took the boys to buy fireworks I had johnny all week I want to thank my wife for taking care of him while I was @ work. Before church I was sitting on my couch when Bro J called & said He was early to church he got his times mixed up he got there @ 6 pm & church was @ 7 pm he lost that hour of his life poor Bro J. We were having a fellowship after church it is what Baptist really know what to do fellowship & EAT. Church was over but the rain was coming down, & I had to put the GAS pit which belongs to the Preacher under his carport. Well everything that could go wrong did but I didn't get mad OK maybe a little. The GAS grill had a low flame like if it was out of gas, but it wasn't so the grill didn't work. Then Sis Kim said I have a George Foreman grill we can use, because we were making burgers, hot dogs, chicken breast as my Bro John would say Hooters Baby, and some fajitas that Sis Sharon brought so I could make. Well the Foreman grill wouldn't turn on it was not working so she & my wife just decide to grill them on pans they came out good anyway. They boiled the hot dogs & grilled the chicken I brought and I gave back the fajitas cause I couldn't grill them. I send My bro in law to buy some self ignite charcoal but he brought regular charcoal with no lighter fluid. So forget that people started leaving because it was still raining. Bro J bailed on me too way to go man leave a bro hanging. He said he was going somewhere where the pit worked. When the people ate they left and of course it was just us and the preacher left behind with our families oh and Dale & his family stayed we had a blast though popping fireworks. We ended up leaving church about 11:30 pm still had to go drop of my nephew Toby then to the house I had to work the next day. Before J left I was telling him a story about fire, buy the way he is terrified of lighting what is it with these Yanez that they are scaredy cats j said at least I ain't afraid of roaches or tarantulas something like that WHATEVER do you mean J. We used to live out in the country when i was younger we were poor folk you here. We had an outhouse yuk and when we would throw the trash we would throw it in a big hole in the ground that my dad and uncles dug up the it would get filled and they would cover It up and dig another one. This is where I got started to make fire, because if you threw the trash you had to burn it. I would play with fire and gasoline not a good combination. The fire was going I poured out a bowl of Gasoline on it as i leaned forward to look into the hole where the fire was at my eyebrows were gone my forehead looked like I had been scalped. I started crying like a baby jumping around went inside to tell my mom first she spanked me of course for playing with gas. then she put manteca all over my face. Manteca is Lard for those that don't speak in Spanish. Thank the Lord I was not seriously burned. I hate to say it , but I got burned maybe 3 or 4 more times in my life burning trash. One time my cousin Javy was outside during a cookout and he had a cup of gas. He was dipping a stick into it and burning the tip my uncle saw him but didn't say anything(they were all drinking). He did this for a while until he dipped his stick in the gas, but his stick was still on fire my cuz was like 7 or 8 I was about 11 or 12 @ the time, we looked @ each in shock not knowing what to do. Yes he did he kicked the cup over and we had fire it was dark but it looked like day @ that moment. My Dad & uncles freaked out jumping everywhere thought something had exploded, they ran got the water hose and didn't work duh they started covering it with dirt that put it out my Cousin got beat I ran inside and felt sleepy all of a sudden. My uncle told my dad it was Javy if not I would have gotten A beating also. I also burned down the woods in back of my Grandma's house but I will tell you that story next time. Laters