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Two really great things happened yesterday.  The drainage pipe out to the city sewer line was replaced and Cas and I went out to the Celina Balloon Festival.  

First things first, the plumbers came pretty early in the morning, and I took the first shift.  Cas and I were both home in the morning, but he went to the gym for a lunchtime class, so I stuck around the house.  When he came back, I headed to my parents' house.  The plan was to spend Saturday doing our typical Sunday stuff so we could spend Sunday at the balloon festival.  It is a two day event, and we had already paid for our Groupon, so we were definitely going.  

Cas called me before four and let me know that the major part of the job was done, we could flush our toilets with reckless abandon, and we may want to head to the balloon festival in the evening.  They had some really cool stuff planned for that night, and since we had the time, we decided to go.  

Good call, Cas. 

That was my first time seeing a "balloon glow" occur.  It was pretty cool.  The evening was too windy to send a bunch of hot air balloons up into the air, but one of them did launch, if only briefly.

It came down in pretty short order, but at least one of them took to the skies.  

Later in the evening, there was a fireworks show.  Cas had begun sneezing so hard by then that I am surprised he didn't break a rib.  Between that and my incredibly dry eyes, we decided to walk out to the car and have a seat in the relatively still air of the inside of a vehicle until it was time to watch the fireworks.  

That's exactly what we did,  And as a bonus, we were in the car when it was time to leave.  We beat the majority of the crowd out of the parking lot.   

It was a pretty triumphant day.  We have proper drainage from our house (it's funny what you take for granted right up until it stops working) and we saw pretty stuff in the sky.  Now, my Sunday is free, so I think I will head to mom and dad's house by way of the Home Depot.  I have to pick up some rather specific light bulbs for our front porch.  So many of the bulbs are dead that it's embarrassing to turn the lights on, and Halloween is coming right up.  Probably best to replace them now.