[SOC] New Mexican??

[Kevin Rock]

In NM these are called Luminarias.
The English translation : Burning bags of sand.

When a decent wind came along the bags would blow sideways.  The burning 
candle placed upon the sand inside would ignite the bag.  With any luck at 
all the whole line of luminarias would start burning.  It was quite 
interesting to see the rings of fire around the tops of the adobe, or most 
especially, around the fake adobe houses.  Folks would be running around 
in the Winter spraying down their houses.

The modern equivalents are plastic bags with light bulbs in them.  Not 
nearly as cool.


Kevin.  KD5ONS




On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:11:39 +0100, Paul Bartlett 
<paul at fulking.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>
>> Your Christmas decorations include "a yard of sand and 200 paper bags".
>
> Reminds me of a friend who, years ago, was building a small patio using
> concrete slabs. These are usually placed upon a bed of sand over prepared
> ground.
>
> He did the sums and figured he needed 3 cubic feet of sand so he ordered 
> a
> yard.
>
> Ooops.
>
> If SOC had been around then, he'd have qualified for automatic 
> membership.
>
> Paul ;-)
>
>
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