Aerial Mayhem

At eight this morning all chaos was going on overhead. First the whooossh of the propane burner of a balloon floating nearby, and then the persistent buzzing of motorized paragliders. I looked outside — there were at least three balloons in the neighborhood, with a couple of paragliders zooming around to inspect. (The paragliders take off from southeast of Davis, the balloons launch from somewhere near Woodland.) One of the balloons then landed right by the levee to the north of the house, and the several vans of the balloon ground crew were parked by the side of the road, the crew running out to take down the balloon. I kept the cats inside until the mayhem subsided.

All we needed to add to the scene was a dragon and the confusion would be total.