will the real Harry Potter please stand up, please stand up

Chance went to a Harry Potter party last week. Shocker, I know. Pretty much EVERYONE I KNOW has been to a HP party recently. He actually saw the latest movie (along with most of Tallahassee) at the very first MIDNIGHT showing the day it came out. It's so funny to me because he hasn't read ANY of the books. Never cared to. Tyler has read them ALL about 30 times since he was in 3rd grade. And yes, I was the mom that took her elementary aged kids to the bookstore in the middle of the night so they could get the new release FIRST. And I was also the mom that let her kids skip school so they could see the movies before anyone else.

Even though he hasn't read the books, Chance has loved the movies. The party he went to last week was at church and they were spending the day catching up on the old films and then all going as a group to see the last one. He was so excited that he woke me up at 6:30AM. The event didn't begin until 9:00am and it only takes 20 minutes to get there. You do the math.

This is what he wore...

Dog days of summer

Sorry. I couldn't help myself. I'm pretty sure that I've been in some sort of a funk lately. And the weather has had a lot to do with it. I've been stuck in the house for days and days and more days.

No photos=Unhappy Photog.

So I visited my friend yesterday and she had her grand-dog, Cameron, at her house for the week. And her much loved, favorite sweet fur baby, Sandy, was not happy. I did not pose her. This is Sandy giving me the scoop on the new invader.

Well, she was happy to see me but only because she was so certain that I was there to take the year old, mostly leggy critter that insisted on being by her side every step of the way.. AWAY. And she quickly became very disappointed when that didn't happen. Cameron is the sweetest thing. He is sooo big and gallops all over the house and yard. And he will click his teeth on command. I fell in love almost immediately. Look at those eyes!! And he tried to crawl in my lap. All 100 pounds of him. He's so full of energy. All the time. 24 hours a day. 7 days a week.

Oh, and I can't forget Sadie... the 20 year old cat that lives on the porch. She's been the yard cat since my friend moved to the end of the road in the middle of nowhere. And she would never come in the house... she preferred the yard. And now the porch.

Monsoons anyone?

OH MY GOODNESS... it's has been raining here for almost three weeks. I can't believe it. I know everyone around here has been doing rain dances for months because for soooo long, there was nothing. NADA! Not a drop.

But stop... PEOPLE... please. Enough!! My grass is knee high I can't even think about wading through the swamp that in now my side yard.

Really? No... SERIOUSLY!!!

We were trying to catch up on painting the outside of the house. The forecast was clear for the first time in DAYS and this happened....

It started POURING rain. For no reason. Except that I had just finished setting up the paints and had half painted the door.

At least someone had some fun.