Holiday Weekend

It was a relaxed weekend. Davie came over from Peoria. He and Ryan went out Friday to a pool hall, ate dinner, played pool and drank a little beer while my friends Carrie, Beth and their kiddos hung out at our place. Carrie mixed up some tasty drinks for us. Everyone had a good time (I think!).

Saturday Mary came over to enjoy watching fireworks from our garage/driveway. For the most part it was a good time. Unfortunately our immature forty-something neighbors had to cast a cloud on things because they were too proud to admit that allowing their kids to shoot fireworks into our garage three times was inappropriate. It always surprises me when peoples immediate reaction is to turn things back on you and blame you for their mistakes. It's probably the most immature behavior I've seen. They made some comment about taking care of our yard, which interestingly has nothing to do with fireworks flaming past our heads but was somehow important to them at the time. Maybe if our yard was 1/4 inch shorter the kids would not have been misusing fireworks or lighting them off right in front of our driveway. Or maybe the yard had something to do with distraction during the lighting of fireworks. I'm having a hard time making the connection. Anyway, I digressed.

Davie left for Peoria this afternoon. Twenty five bucks in the back since I paid him 25$ to mow the lawn at 9pm last night right in front of my neighbors. :) My rationale was the yard was important enough to mention (and they know we have a yard boy who mows and would have been here today) then we might as well take care of it right then. I hope they felt like jerks because they certainly acted like jerks. Anyway, they did end up moving their firework lighting down a bit and OH MY GOSH, the fireworks quit flying into our garage. See how things can be easily fixed. Too bad it included a bunch of stupidity along with it. Of course then the fireworks started flying in the other neighbors yard but I think they had already gone in for the night. But I am supposed to be telling you about today... It's really sunny and hot today. Annie is resting and Maddie is cleaning the playroom. Ryan is reading and I'm about ready to go out for a second tanning session.