All the dominoes are set up, and are starting to topple gracefully over, leading to the wedding on the 9th.

Tonight my fiancee and I are going over to our friend's house for a romantic evening. She is an incredible masseuse, with a lovely house, and we will each be bathed, then massaged, and then tucked into her bed. We will snooze for a while, then the three of us will go have dinner together. It's going to be inconceivably lovely.

Tomorrow I am getting acupuncture again. It is helping stop my seasonal allergies, and it is also helping with this damn torqued tendon in my foot that just won't heal. Going to get acupuncture twice a week up to the wedding to help make sure I can dance with my sweetie comfortably, and I don't sneeze during the ceremony. That'd be embarrassing.

Getting ready to shoot a fireworks show on the 4th of July. My family are professional pyrotechicians and shoot this show every year. The family has been shooting fireworks professionally since the 1960's, and this show in particular for more than 15 years, I think. The town loves us, they love our style of show, and we are friends with the local fire department, city council, etc. It's really a nice time.

And it is one of only two(?) fireworks shows in Washington State that are still fired entirely by hand. Almost everyone does electronically fired shows, or computer controlled shows. We don't. We stand right there and fire them by hand, timing each shell's flight, letting the pretty ones burn longer and undisturbed, letting the audience ooh and aaah for a bit before shooting the next shell. It's an unappreciated art that people just don't really get to see any more. Most shows are pre-programmed to music, and don't show as much love for the art of the fireworks themselves.

So yeah. Fireworks, then the wedding. It's gonna be a busy couple of weeks!

Oh yeah.... after the wedding we are going to get out of town for a few days and spend some time in the lovely little artists' community of Tieton, WA. Looking forward to spending quite a bit of time at the Tieton Cider Works!!