Easter candy and alumin[i]um

Stayed home today with the dog -- again -- while everyone else at work -- again. Funny how much leftover Easter candy you can eat when you're just hanging around the house.

Summer is just winding down. It's a very Aussie thing to light [anti-]mozzie candles and place them in doorways and windows that don't have flyscreens. The sad thing is that each candle comes in a little aluminum (or as the Aussies spell it, aluminium -- the extra "i" -- and pronounced "al-loo-MIN-ee-um") cup. When the candle burns down, the little teeny cup remains.

Seems a shame to just throw them away, so I've been saving them. Figure eventually I'll go over to Next-Door Uncle's place and melt 'em down into something useful -- don't know what, yet.

Have also been saving the colored aluminium that the little Easter candies come wrapped in. Will melt that down, too.