Just To Get You All Excited for The BI-I-I-G NIGHT!

I know that a lot of you are going to go to the opening night of the very last (boo-hoo) Harry Potter film. Here is one of the posters from MuggleNet.

I'm waiting until the throng has been and gone and, along with all the other like-minded people who wait for the third or fourth week when we can have lots of elbow room at the theater and not have to sit next to someone's kids hopped up on too much sugar. I might be hopped up, but I can handle it. I've hung from chandeliers since a child and still can manage the sugar high--just joking. I've quit drinking pop (except for the occasional root beer float!)

So, since I know pretty much how it ends, I can wait.

Among things of a different sort, this morning as I was getting into the black beauty (F150) to go to work, Dennis looked down on the ground from the doorway after wishing me a good day and said "Ew! What's that?"

I powered down the window and saw the odd thing. Pink-sh and white. I couldn't make it out. I had to get out of the truck. Well, I could see it was the head of some animal, and the spine detached from the body--oh, and one paw. It was lying on it's back (although the back was no longer around anywhere).

I figured out quickly the animal which had been obviously eaten, and the prize head a token to head master of the house. It was an opossum. We have a semi-wild cat that roams the area, once in a while it will station itself under one of the trucks watching for little varments around the house to go after. Our little hunter. 

I remember the night my husband took out some milk for it. It ran off, but came back and drank the milk down. That was months ago. Well, I think Ms. Kitty (I named her, as she was a calico), merely returned the favor.

"She left you a token gift," I told him.

"There really wasn't much left to eat."Dennis joked.

"I said TOKEN gift," I reitterated. "She repayed you."

"D'you really think a cat could take down a 'possum?" he wondered.

"They're pretty slow."

"But it must have eaten the whole thing. That's pretty big for a cat to eat."

"Well, maybe she's hungry, or is eating for six or eight." I'd said it was likely she could be preggy, since our neighbors have a lot of cats.

So, as ishy as the head was, it was nice of Ms. Kitty to bring it around. Better than a skunk--which would have been quite nasty smelling.

Hope your week is going by smoothly.

(My spell check was not working in this, so I think I got all the misspellings, but if not, sorry)

Are You Ready For Harry Potter #7 Part 2 Movie?

I'll be going to the last Harry Potter movie, and probably have tears in my eyes the whole time. So, now you know, if you didn't already, I'm a Harry Potter fan.

My love of the H.P. books and movies ignited my desire to write fantasy above all else. I realized, once I got into the wonderfully creative books by J.K. Rowling, this was the sort of writing I should be doing, but for adults. It was why I wrote my first book, Spell of the Black Unicorn. I had wanted something more adult, but nothing was out there. Thus I spent about 5 years working on the plot, the world, and characters and then the story.

And because I wanted to see the trailer and any other news on this movie I went to http://mugglenet.com From this site you can find the trailer, see some great posters, even buy them I guess. And there is something called "Pottermore" that is being introduced by Ms. Rowling. If you are a true fan you will want to add your email to it and see what this is all about. There are not a lot of details. We're to be left in the dark until it happens. I suppose it may be writings and other things Rowling may present to those of us who have signed on.

There are some movie houses which are going to show the first part #7 the hours before midnight of the release of the last movie, thus anyone who wants to watch both movies back-to-back can sit through something like 5-6 hours of the last book on screen. Better get your rest if you plan on this!

Okay, I've had a long, tiring week and I've had little sleep some nights (a neighbor decided to fire off some fire crackers, oh, I guess it was Wednesday night up into the later hours. Nice to not have to get up for a job, I guess!)

Also--dare I say it??? I've already begun thinking about the fourth book. I've got scenes in my head. Do these people (my characters) realize I haven't even gotten the second book published yet? And here they are all capering around in my head doing things and I have to keep writing notes or making them on my little recorder.

Hope to post something later this weekend, and that everyone has a good one. And . . . no more fire crackers, I hope!