Thank you MWestMom. Welcome here and keep posting - you weren't the only one having a stroke when the site was gone. Thanks for your prayers and prayers returned for you and your support here!
excerpt: They are bright orange cylinders, about 4 inches long, bearing the name Pentex 16. The fuse looks like clothes line, but it has a black powder core. The cylinders are roughly equivalent in force to a stick of dynamite.