This morning I looked out into the backyard and noticed a largish branch had fallen out of one of the hickory trees. (As a side note, we had a poplar go down last year and it really banged up the hickories. We weren’t sure one of them would survive 
). Rather than being upset about this, I did a little dance. When I pointed it out to the better half he said simply, “Smoking.” That’s right at some point today I’ll hack that branch into smaller pieces and add it to our collection for our next smoking round. We have a water smoker like this 
and we smoked as recently as last weekend.
I finished Harry Potter yesterday and was sorry to see it end. I just hope the next book will be out before I’m 40. It will be interesting to see how the final 2 books turn out. I certainly hope it turns out better than the sorry excuse for a storyline that has recently befallen Geo. Lucas and his Star Wars franchise.