Obviously, I don't have enough time to maintain a blog - and/or not
enough creative thoughts to fill one! It's been months now, and this is only my second post! I did think that over the course
of the summer I'd be writing something here, late at night, when everyone else was alseep, but usually, when I'm up late at
night, others are, too, and we're talking about what's going on in our lives, what the plans are for the next few days, who
needs the car when, and to go where, or our theories on what will happen in HP & tHBP. (Well, last night, after I finished
reading it, that shifted to analysis of what happened, and theories on what will happen in book 7 - I do hope we don't have
to keep theorizing for another 2 years to find out who is right!)
This evening, though, it is quiet, even if it isn't all that late -
Suz is spending the night at a friend's house, camping in the back yard; Erin's gone to Salem to meet her boyfriend for dinner,
and isn't back yet, of course; Sam went to watch the news as soon as we got back from our small group meeting.
I finished loading the dishwasher, and decided to work on websites
for a while, now that I've finished reading 6 Harry Potter books in about 2 and a half weeks - for some reason I got slowed
down by book 5, even though it was the second time through, and I've listened to it on cd several times. Of course, I worked
four days last week, had my granddaughters here much of the time I wasn't working, had to run people here and there, spent
an evening at a campout in the country (I didn't stay overnight, but Suz did), and another evening at a picnic for international
students, then on Sunday, church in the morning and a concert at church in the evening... plus it was our county fair last
week, so we had open class & 4-H entries to turn in Sunday and Monday, barn duty for Suz during the week, several stops
at the fair (one with the granddaughters), and all those entries to retrieve this Monday...
I finished HP 5 about 10:30 pm Sunday, then started HP 6 just before
11:00 pm and finished it just about 11:45 pm Monday, without feeling like I was rushing through it at all. I've started rereading
it already, but I expect I will take a few days this time, since I can safely stop & discuss it in depth with my daughters
now, without concern that they will accidentally give away something I haven't come to yet!
