Father's Day Weekend: Take 3

We started the weekend with date night on Friday night. We got all set to go and I walked across the room to turn the TV off. My hand was extended and my right middle finger was just grazing the power button. Before I could push it the crack of a gun went off and a flash as bright as an atomic blast, at least from my angle. Holy crap! The static came out of me or the TV, we don't know. I yelled out in pain and then realized I didn't actually hit the button but the TV was off. Oh shit. I tried. Dave tried. I was thinking, "Hey, this is just like the toaster I threw out when it was actually the outlet being freaky. The TV will turn back on. Reset the breaker." Nope. Then came the, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry" guilt out of me. We cannot afford a new TV right now. We also can't be without one all summer lest we go bats! Noey is a junkie too and she wouldn't tolerate it well. Dave wasn't too upset. We added a trip to Fry's on our list of stops for date night. We actually made it our only stop. We found a TV that fit Dave's criteria and was the cheapest one they had. Works for me. I didn't want it sitting in the hot van so we got take-out and came home.

Now we had to move the 200 pound beast. Dave is only allowed to lift 50 pounds. Hmmmm...So we called Kevin to come help. We got it down on the dolly and ready to go out back and around the house. Dave went outside and there were bees swarming around the light. Kevin said they were Africanized. I insisted we take the TV out front. Dave got annoyed and went to make a path through the garage. Through this process he found a furniture dolly on weels that we could use so we transferred the TV over and got it out of the house and to the curb.

The next morning the garbage men came but did not take the TV. I guess their limit is also 50 pounds as only one man throws the garbage in and the other drives. Then Dave noticed that it was tipped over and all the electronics had been stripped out of it! I never heard anyone out front! That scares me because our bedroom is at the front of the house and our driveway is short. Someone was not that far away from us, stealing our crap and we never heard them! They are going to be sad if they think those electronics work. They are fried. So is my finger, which still tingles a little bit. There may have been copper wire in there, I don't know.



We called the bug people about the bees. They were going to charge us but this is the second time this has happened and they didn't charge us the first time so I wasn't having it for the second time. The bees had nested again in our sprinkler control box. The guy sprayed and sprayed. There were 4 or 5 honeycombs deep on the top of the box. He pulled out handfuls and handfulls of dead bees. He also filled the box with poison and put up a trap. Thankfully they were European honeybees and not Africanized. They say all bees in the valley are Africanized but he said that is one of those fear tactics that gov't agencies use to get more money out of people. So the bees should be gone and that box is outta there!



Our new TV is a 46 inch flatscreen. It fits nicely into the space Dave has built. We still need to get all of our wires and things baby proofed. That entire bottom section will be drawers for DVDs. Our new carpet comes Thursday so it seems the den is getting a full makeover, even if part of it was by accident!