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Made 4 freezers, 2 gallons of cooked vanilla ice cream. They ate 2-1/2 freezers, 1-1/4 gallons of it. Got a freezer and a half left over. The freezer I borrowed from Glen was a White Mountain. It has the traditional wooden bucket. Mine has a wooden bucket but is lined with plastic. The other two I borrowed just had plastic buckets. I put the same amount of ice and rock salt in each of them and started them all at the same time. Mine finished first with Glen's coming in a close second. The two with just the plastic buckets took more than twice as long to freeze and required twice as much ice and rock salt before they were done. Thought that was interesting.

Fireworka were purty, but the igniters for the computer board to set them off got wet so they had to set them all off by lighting them the old fashioned way, light and run. Not as smooth but worked. The show lasted 30 minutes. Most of them were constructed by my nephew and his boys. My brother paid for it. overheard it costed around $750. There were a few very interesting ones they made with black powder and non-dairy coffee creamer.