Momentary Excitement

This morning, I was just sitting here at the computer (watching the guided tour of Mac's OS X Leopard update - but I digress), what I kept on hearing this rumbling. I thought to myself, "Self, why does our neighbor keep rolling his garbage can all over the place? It's no more than 30 feet to to curb, what's all the commotion?"

Then I hear some faint yelling. I look out the front window, and I see this huge balloon out front, the occupants saying "Hi" to Debbie and Evan next door (Abby was on the bus, so she missed it). The roaring was the burner of the balloon. They were descending, and aiming for the farm field across the street. I ran out back to capture this picture and video (note the background noise of the barking from the annoying Ewok-dog).