Storms in Georgia

We had a terrific thunderstorm last night. We lost electricity for about 15 minutes. Michael was having fun running around with the huge industrial type flashlight he got from Uncle Bruce. We took the pork roast out of the electric oven and put it in the gas oven. We gathered up candles.

Fortunately, the power came back on. No major damage to anything I could see.

When the storm was pounding us, I went out to the front porch and sat there for a little while with Alesia, watching it. We watched the sheets of rain pour down the hill across the street and move down to our yard. The yard was covered in pine cones. I told Alesia her Grandpa Tony [my dad] loved to watch a good thunderstorm - from the safety of a porch, of course.

The nice thing is we got some badly needed RAIN. It was 95 yesterday. My plants were all wilting, big time.

Our movie last night was The Great Debaters, about a small black college debate team that went up against Harvard in 1935. It was a terrific film. It opened up several discussions with the kids about  racism,  debate, civil disobedience - all great topics. It was a history lesson, but well acted and engaging. Denzel Washington directed and starred. I highly recommend it.

I finally got a minute to download Michael's birthday photos. They didn't come out too well, alas. It was morning in the dining room, which meant everything was flooded with light and we looked like washed out ghosts.