The long hazy days of summer.

Today feels like a school day. I need the chicklets to be up, and quite simply they are not. Last evening we/I did attempt to contain them in their own kingdoms, but there were books to be read, and "The Iron Chef" to be watched. Little lady Pipenza loves that show. Now I have to do the shake and wake, or is it shake and wait... Meanwhile... somewhere over the ridge, just 10 minutes from here there appears to be a forest fire burning/contained... so are those clouds I am looking at or smoke drifts? Must go wake chicklets now!... can't miss another appointment with the orthodontist