Burning down the town

Tel-Mond is on fire!!!
It's a holiday today, and the kids are out of school (we still had to go to work, which sucks). So they did a little picnic in the park, and set some things on fire. Mostly meat, but it looked like they were barbecuing with wood, rather than charcoal or something. Half the town was engulfed in smoke. Thick white smoke. I was crossing the street, and the headlights from a passing car made actual visible conical beams through the thick-foggy-smoke. We usually only get that twice a year. Once on independence day which is usually a twenty-four hours meat-feasting...um...fest. The other time is a ridiculously stupid holiday which I can't even translate, which mainly celebrates a victory a couple of thousand years ago. In the immortal words of somebody, it is a great Jewish tradition to celebrate along the guidelines of "they tried to kill us all, they failed/we won, let's eat!". In any case, we celebrate by lighting great bonfires, which were used in the olden days to signal important news as these. That is the night when the sane people lock themselves up in their houses, and hope that nobody actually burns down the world. The next day, THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, and I am not exaggerating here, is covered in and smells of, smoke.
Some of the animals go wild!!!
Anyway, we got a TRIPLE treat this year. Yey for us...