My Pinata Buisness

I made a pinata.  A blue star pinata.  For the Fourth of July--no better way to show our love of freedom than to smash the symbol of that very freedom with a bat.  It was easy to make.  Decide on desired shape; trace onto cardboard twice; cut out; cut 5 inch strips of cardboard to go between the two shapes...ok I won't go into all the details, but it was easy.  So easy in fact that as I was making it I daydreamed myself an Etsy superstar making all sorts of custom pinatas.  And then I finished it and we took it to the shin dig at my sister-in-law's in Greensboro, and I bragged a bit because I was pretty proud of my first attempt at a pinata.  Then I mentioned my pinata business to my father-in-law and figured out how much I would make: pinata's on-line are about $13--mine was exceptionally large so I might be able to charge $30; $5 worth of supplies; and 7 hours worth of labor.  That comes to a grand total of $3.50 an hour.  And my two days worth of day dreams came to a crashing halt.  Not worth it.  But the kids enjoyed it, and we knocked another one off our bucket list.

We also did other 4th of July things. Alice, however, said she was tired around 6, put on the pj's she had packed all by herself and went up to Cora's room where she spent the rest of the evening lying on Cora's bed.

 Rex helped set off some fireworks.

 One of the highlights of the night was Greg and his watermelons.  In case Homeland Security is reading this oh-so-malicious blog, I won't go into details, but this is what was left of the watermelon.  It was pretty cool.

Unfortunately, this will be our last year at Erick and Maurine's.  Again due to Homeland Security reasons, all I can say is that Erick promised his neighbor no more.  And so comes the end of 4th of July fun.  Greg and I have spent 5 of our 8 married 4th of July's at Erick and Maurine's, but no more.  At least we have a too-good-for-the-blog story to finish it out with.