Harry Potter, Tuesday, July 14th at 12:01 a.m.

No, I don't have the date wrong, this is the time when Barrett, Brandon, Seth, Spencer, and Greg started waiting in line for the first showing of Harry Potter which is scheduled for Wednesday, July 15th at 12:01 a.m. Yes, this is Placerville, and No there was no one else in line for hours....I mean hours later, but they wanted to say that they stayed for 24 hours.

I endlessly tease them for being nerds, but they are lovable, good-looking, funny, nerds. Except Greg, who says he is just lovable, good-looking and funny :)
6:45 a.m. - I stopped by on my way to work to see how it was going....they were sound asleep.
They didn't hear me taking pictures....

or dropping off donuts. I got a text 45 minutes later asking if they were from me. I guess they needed to know before they consumed donuts from an unknown source.

I told Barrett to call me when the first person, they didn't know, showed up in line. My prediction was 2 p.m. Afterall, we live in Placerville. I was very close, he called me just before 2 p.m. to tell me that someone showed up at 1:45 p.m.

3:30 p.m. - stopped by on my way home from work. I came to town early to get my hair cut.

Only they, and the one other person they reported on at 2 p.m.,were in line.

After explaining to everyone at work what they were doing. I told them that they aren't the dress up in costume or go to the Star Trek convention type of nerds....I show up and they all had "wands" and Barrett had the scar on his forehead...maybe I was mistaken :)

6:45 p.m. - After my haircut, I brought dinner. 12 hours after my first pictures of the morning.

It felt like they were close but nope they still had over 5 hours to wait...crazy or crazy fun?

Gotta love them!

Night at the Movies - Outdoors for Friends of the Library

Owen was so excited to have us go with him to the once a month outdoor movie showing at the library lawn. The movie was The Point. It is an animated flick done about the same time as Yellow Submarine and it had the same look and feel. For a couple of the scenes and the music to go with, we all looked at each other and shook our heads.....yep 70's and drugs :)

It was freezing cold (Greg probably wouldn't agree with that assessment). Next month is a Laurel and Hardy fest....though it is fun to go to an outdoor movie, I told Owen not to ask me to go to that. Not a real fan.

Memorial Day Weekend - Monday

The project continued on Monday. Owen sorted through stuff that won't go back into the shed. Valiant attempt but too much to do in one day so it still sits on my driveway, but we made lots of progress. Meanwhile, I weeded flower beds so I could be outside with him. These are my hydrangeas that were totally lost under weeds, poison oak, a blueberry vine and a stray strawberry plant. Now they are papered and ready for mulch. Greg had cut them way back so I didn't even know if they were really there anymore so it was a nice surprise.

Here are my lamb's ear. I love this stuff, its furry and it grows and grows. Greg told me that the whole plant has moved. The original plant was in the bare spot and it took off everywhere. Then the original plant got old and tired and died. I am hoping it will fill it completely. Low maintenance is the goal.

After gardening....our reward....Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

It was okay. Enjoyable but I liked the first one better. Started slow but did better toward the end. Some of the writing was cheesy.

Atlas Shrugged ...reading

Okay, I must admit. I was not a reader...never read the classics, missed the boat on what was going on in the world around me when I was a teenager and well into my adulthood. My son knew about this book and I had never heard of it. I hate to admit it but it is true.

As you know I work for government and I was in a informal meeting with a consultant and he made a reference to Atlas Shrugged. I am sorry to say that the three others, all work in government, had not heard of it either. He went on to tell us just that it was written by Ayn Rand and that it is a classic and that we have to read it. One of the women turned to me and asked me to order a copy for each of them. Knowing nothing about it except it has been around a long time. I decided to first check it out at the library. All copies were out ( I am sure it is getting a lot of attention nowadays) but I asked for a hold and it came in. I went to pick it up and I almost laughed out loud when I saw its size...it is 1168 pages. Meanwhile I thought of the conversation we had in front of the consultant....how ignorant that conversation sounded. Clueless. He probably laughed inside when he knew we were talking about an 1168 page novel. Yeah I won't be ordering it with public funds...although based on the content, I am guessing it would actually be a good thing. :)

I am only 125 pages in and am enjoying it very much. I have resisted the urge, mostly, to look up the whole story line, see how it will end, etc. So far I am already sure that every business owner wishes every politician and government employee would read it.

I read a passage that affected me to the core. I was going to write it here but when I had Barrett read it, it didn't hit him the same way as it did me. I realized I can't set up the characters here well enough to feel the true impact of the passage. I will hold off until I finish the whole book. I can tell you that I thought it illustrated, to a tee, the current political/socioeconomic situation that we find ourselves in.

In looking for a picture for this blog, I saw that it is slated to become a movie in 2011. Interesting....

Wolverine

May is a big movie month for us. One movie we have been waiting for at our house, is this one. May 1st...opening day. The plan.....we all go to the matinee Friday, May 1st at 4:30 p.m. Reality...the boys all went at the midnight showing Thursday night/Friday morning and slept in most of Friday. Owen and I still went as planned. The boys all came to watch it again too. Way fun.

Hannah Montana: The Movie

Many of you may not know that Barrett is a Hannah Montana fan...well specifically a Lilly fan. Anyway, I came home from work Thursday just as he was about to leave for the movie theatre. Apparently, this was the last showing of Hannah Montana: The Movie before it left Placerville so he was going....again. I decided to go along. It was actually quite entertaining.

Barrett's favorite.
My favorite (left) :)