Today has been a busy and very interesting day. It started with a jolt with a loud bang coming from the other room in the middle of the night. There was a bathroom tote attached to the shower wall with suction cups that fell off with a very loud clang and bang. After checking it out I went back to bed only to be disturbed about half an hour later at 3 am with sounds of explosions and broken glass. It sounded like muffled gunshots and it was very alarming. My mind was racing trying to figure out what was going on. My pistol is located right under the bed… do I grab it and investigate, what was that sound, I didn’t hear anyone outside or inside the building right before it happened…. in the split second from the first bang 2 more followed and after I was jolted awake again I began to figure out what was really happening. After the third bang I could hear fizzing and instantly thought OH NO NOT MY BEER!!!!! It turned out to be the home made pop. Jennifer and I wanted to try it and see how it compared to the stuff that can be purchased in stores. After tasting it when it was ready I didn’t really like it. It tasted to medicinal and didn’t suit me. At any rate there will be no more samples due to the violent end to the experiment. Unlike the beer the pop is all sugar and the yeast in it kept making carbonation and didn’t run out of steam like it would in the beer with the small amount added with priming sugar. We unwittingly made glass grenades that were placed neatly in the study’s closet. The explosion was so violent that glass shrapnel was embedded in the door and wall. The shards also had enough force to ricochet off of the ceiling and land on top of things placed on the top shelf of the closet. The boxes right next to the bottles had neat tears with glass all over the interior.

Jennifer and I ended up spending all morning and afternoon cleaning and removing glass and pop residue. There is still some cleaning to do with the carpet. We are using carpet cleaner to lift the pop out of the carpet. It is going well but it is slow due to the wait for the cleaner to do its job. We are very grateful that the bottles exploded in the middle of the night instead of some time that we could possibly be in the closet gathering items. Who knows what would have happened if someone would have been next to that, I’m sure it wouldn’t have been good.

The temperature here has been mild. It was 65 deg here today and we have the windows open. Wallace is loving it. He enjoys sitting on the window sill taking in the rays and sniffing the air coming in. He also loves looking at the birds that fly around and land on the ledge right outside the window. He was very mad and has been acting out due to him being sequestered in the bathroom while the cleaning was taking place. He probably assumed he was in trouble or something and is now acting out.

We also stopped by a thrift store to look for an old game. Jennifer has a school project where she has to make her own board game and make a business proposal to go along with it. She has to make a working model as well. We were looking for a game board to use as a base and paste on the image of her game board on top. We couldn’t find anything large enough to work for her purposes. We did meander through the store and found something that would work for decoration in the apartment. We got a glass container and Jen wants to put her left over balls of yarn in it and put it up on the shelf for color. I thing it is a good idea and the jar cost 50 cents. We could also put some twigs or other thing in there to add to its appearance but who knows how it will look. So we didn’t leave disappointed.

For the rest of the day we will be relaxing after all the events and our next major decision will be what to eat for supper.

This entry was posted on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 6:02 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.