Sounds wonderful! Our little town has fireworks each 4th and my husband used to go but he can’t go anymore. Everybody around us was setting them off. That always worries me a little since it’s hay time, but it usually rains enough before the 4th that it’s not a fire hazard. Those that don’t have fireworks shoot guns. I know. 🙄 The dogs and I stay inside after dark. The good thing is that most of the houses are really far apart, and they are shooting shotguns. Dumb bunch.
In my younger years (much younger), my friends an I sought out the biggest boomers we could find. Usually M-80 and H-100 fireworks. We had heard, and I'm sure it was not true, than an M-80 was equal to 1/4 stick of dynamite. Of course, we just liked the big boom. The cities around us had great displays that they did every year, but someone would always have a July 4 party, and invariably, at least one of us would go off in the woods and shoot a handgun into the ground.
We probably weren't the brightest bulbs on the string, but generally speaking, when the "authorities" said not to do something but gave no good reason, we would do it. Just to get back at "the man". :)
Fast forward to today - lots of display stuff around me, but I didn't do anything special for the 4th. Well, I did cook some pork tenderloin on the grill, but that didn't go boom (it tasted good though).