Ho Haps and Real Fireworks...

We spent most of the long holiday weekend doing house stuff. I completed the custom valance curtain rods and we got them hung. I also had to move one of the wall mounted Bose speakers leaving large holes in the wall and having to make new ones to fish the speaker wire to the new speaker location. Pam had to modify the valances and custom fit them to the new rods and today, I am finishing up with the hole filling, painting and associated cleanup. The great news is that they look awesome. As soon as the bay window rods get here from internet land, we will have the final window coverings in place - finally. We have been working on getting this done for months and months and it just hasn't worked. We had one place, end up refunding our money after they totally screwed things up.

So, the other day, I was in my jammies, reading the paper on the couch and felt something weird on my ankle. I looked down and there was a Giant Black Furry Spider bailing down a web off of my ankle.... It was about 4 inches, well at least 1 inch, around and really scary looking. Luckily, it was not on me at the time. Well, lucky for me anyway. It wasn't too lucky for it... After I analyzed the situation, I concluded that it must have been in my pajama pants I keep hung up in the bathroom with our robes and other lounging clothes... Ever since then, I beat all clothes I get from there and thoroughly check them out for spiders...

Then, we had a great BBQ dinner outside and later on watched the Twin Fall Fireworks show from the deck. It was suppose to start at 10pm. So, we were out there all ready for it about 9:45. There were a bunch of fireworks going off everywhere, but nothing very impressive. And, the ones from the location where the 'official' show was were no more thrilling than all the rest. So, about 10:20, or so, I was ready to hang it up. But, about then, the real ones started and were great. Pam made some great popcorn and we watched it all from right here. We couldn't hear them since they were about 4 miles away, but the locals produced plenty of noise to satisfy us. Our ears were still recovering from the weekend super modified car races anyway. There is always something exciting here in DaHo...