Jason on Nostr: growing up in Appalachia we'd go outside in the mornings on holidays and blast off a ...

growing up in Appalachia we'd go outside in the mornings on holidays and blast off a couple shotgun rounds into the sky to wish the folks further down the holler a merry Christmas or Happy New Year. There'd be a succession of shots fired off ringing up and down the cove as people responded and it's just been one of those things that always stuck with me. I don't think it's really a thing on the plains but it hasn't stopped me from trying each year.