New Year Celebration

We celebrates New Year Eve here in Harper just like anybody else except we do it different. Around six o'clock in the evening we all sets our clocks up by three hours. That way we can welcome in twelve o'clock all at the same time and get a good night's sleep. So just before our clocks say its midnight we all go out to the edge of the lake on our own property--now we got peoples what live just about all the way around the lake--and get ready for the fireworks. We have to go out west of Harper to find a fireworks shed but we do that way earlier in the year and we is always all ready. The fireworks of choice is sky rockets and roman candles for the grown-ups and sparklers for the childrens. At around five minutes to nine (what our clocks say as twelve), Harmon Kelworth, chief of firefighting volunteers,  sets off the town fire siren on the truck and we all commence to light fuses. It are a pretty sight and you can see it twice once in the air and once in the reflection of the lake. What they call lagniappe down in the bayou country. We was all settled in our beds by ten o'clock. Happy New Year to all y'all.