Phase one complete...

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Phase 1.  The picture is a little dark because the camera on my cell phone is a piece of $#!%.  But you get the idea.  My dogs are afraid to get near them, which is fine, because the little one would just pee on them and then I'd have to use him as a punk.

This is about $350 worth of fireworks, and I am SO EXCITED!!!!  48 high-quality artillery shells, 8 boxes or lesser artillery shells, a 500g finale cake, various smaller cakes, fountains, bottle rockets, roman candles, novelty thingamabobs, and some things that look suspiciously like dynamite.

We have another $150 or so to spend.  It would be more, but we just had to spend $70 replacing the lamp on our DLP television, and I still have to buy various foodstuffs and liquor, etc.

But still; we're gonna set the sky on fire (hopefully not the rest of the neighborhood along with it), and it's gonna be epic.