You can stay here longer than 3 days! I hope it works out for the trip to AR for your grandson. If you lived in Oklahoma, you’d practically be there already.
I’m so tired, and it’s only Thursday! Tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday we have multiple children’s activities in different places at the same time. Thank God I can bilocate!
We worked on building a model Smaug at the Hobbit Club today. At the moment, it looks kind of like a headless anole that’s dropped its tail, but we’ll do the head, tail, and wings next week.
We listened to a “dramatized” recording of the chapter, and Mrs. Flemings and I didn’t think Smaug was done right. Not smooth and plausible ... far too slurpy, as if Santana were talking with a mouthful of crickets. I thought maybe the voice of Ricardo Montalban would work, but we decided that was too smooth. I think Barack Obama would be a good Smaug: greedy, self-centered, egotistical and destructive ... persuasive to the confused, envious, and not-very-bright ... acquisitive, but with no taste.
He'd be perfect.
Someone should tell him he needn't be unemployed come Jan 20th...
In the illustrated book of the Hobbit, there was a fine-looking dragon. In the LP version, Richard Boone was the voice of the dragon.
My son has this book now! If I had know what it was worth, I would have kept it! LOL!