Very busy friday.

Wow, I had a full day yesterday. Stinky and I got up at a decent hour, and while he enjoyed his morning playing video games, I was running around busy. Stinky had a friend coming over. So the usual cleaning, was done. I even mowed the front lawn! Gave myself an asthma attack, but oh well. Dogs, got to run around a bit in the yard before the visitors came.

The boys were going to swim and then play 360 afterwards, but that changed quickly enough. The clouds came and the rain began. Oh well the boys were happy. The mom and I enjoyed ourselves chatting. We decided to make ramen noodles for the boys and had one bowl ready in the dining room, when out of the corner of my eye, I saw a flash, and a bright orange ball! Immediately a crack sounded in the air. Lightning stuck. It struck a tree in our backyard. The rains were so heavy we couldn't see how much damage was caused, but it was enough to scare us. Electrical items were turned off, and the boys were told to stay with us downstairs. So lunch was eaten and some games were played. The storm lightened up and the boys went back upstairs to play.

Later when Goof came home he explored the damage. The tree is 200 ft tall, the limb that fell to the ground was over 18 ft long. When goof walked behind the branches I realized how big the limb was. I couldn't see a 6ft man behind it. He thinks the tree will survive. I hope so. It also looks like another tree was hit too in the storm. It's on the other end of the property and if it falls it's not going to damage any homes.

He and Stinky cleaned up most of the limb this morning. I on the other hand did nothing. I was finishing reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I went to BAM and got my copy and started reading immediately. Again, we were with Whinis and Droopy. Yet again, I am disappointed by Whinis. Stinky has yet to rise above him. It's pretty obvious to all parties, that Stinky cannot be around Whinis at all. Whinis is too argumentative, and Stinky is too strong willed to let an 8 year old get the better of him. It just means loud voices and lots of pushing.

Back to Harry Potter. That was fantastic. I cried, and laughed and cried again. It was just the best. I spent the night reading and converting the audio cds to mp3 files. I am so glad I did that. Stinky says he wants to listen to the book rather than reading. I would rather he read the book, but then I'm not against him listening to it really. I plan to listen to it while I clean. In fact the basement is still calling me. I find I can't talk about the book. It's not fair to anyone that wanders here and isn't a fast reader. Egg, my very knowing little brother, sent me a text message this afternoon. The message was short, "Finish It yet?" How he knows me. So of course I had to let him know I was done. He had read only a few pages, as he had commitments upstate. He's only on page 200. He'll catch up over the next few days. I didn't tell him anything, just that it was great, and the ending was rather maudlin, as per a woman writing.

I'm gonna play on the random house site and find some audio clips from the audio and shove it here.