Halloween shopping
Home Depot were stocking the shelves with Halloween stuff yesterday. Great stuff to buy before everything on the shelves gets destroyed by delighted children who can't resist yanking it out of boxes or pulling on cables. The skeletons were a disappointment - Target had much better skeletons last year. The outdoor lighting looks great.
I got together with Karen for lunch and met up with Christian at her house afterwards and we went together to Home Depot to pick up a couple of necessar items and - mostly - to check out the Halloween stuff going up on the shelves. All of us were quite jolly and excited over some of the new products, which include a very large plastic TRex skeleton (that was the best skeleton there by far). Dinosaurs aren't really Halloween icons but everyone loves big dinosaurs. I liked a lot of the battery-powered, motion or sound activated lighting. There was also a serious glue-stick loaded web-caster for anyone who has an air compressor.
Target has only begun to clear shelves to make room for Halloween but they have only put out a little candy so far. The candy includes some rather realistic gummy eyeball ice cube trays.
All of this was done after MonsterMustDie called in some service providers to look at the non-functioning AC at Casa WereMonster. They determined 1. the filters had not been changed since he bought the house and were completely clogged. 2. the capacitor was kaput. Service call and parts cost $210, which I paid for. The fan is working again and two new filters are in the central unit. All is well again with what is probably a temporary fix. Our AC/Heating is a dinosaur that was already past its projected lifespan when we started living here.