This is how smart the kids on my street are...

I wake up Saturday morning in a grumpy mood. Yeah yeah, I know that is pretty much every day. I’m just not a morning person and never mind that this is approximately Noon. That is irrelevant. I hear Mau brewing up the coffee then the whole house goes silent. The power is out on the whole street. I stumble out of bed to look out the front window on a beautiful, sunny 70-ish degree day and I hear kids screaming and yelling. One of Sky’s friends, who just got a puppy this past week, had been swinging around the dog’s choke chain and flung it onto the power lines, connecting two of them together. Eyewitnesses say there were tons of sparks and it completely fried/melted the dog chain to the wires. Mau marched outside and gave the kid a small pummeling for denying us of our morning coffee. Don’t worry, Mau pummels all these kids on a nearly daily basis with fairly good reason and the mother of the kid gave permission.