I don't get up to TC often to see my folks. So it generally means that I have to squeeze in the gardening between other outings while I'm there. (I'm the gardener in the family so I plant their gardens.) So came up on Sunday (roughly 3.5 hour drive) for a horse event we were all (my folks, sis, & yours truly) invited to. Then went out to a place called "Moomer's" -- they make their own icecream. After which we all went to see the new Harry Potter -- end of day one Next day sis and I took the parental units canoeing. Beautiful day for it -- not too hot or cold. Got there before the 'hordes' so had a nice quiet journey with large sections of the river to ourselves. Went back to the folks' place relaxed for a bit, then started on some weeding. Bit later headed out to see the 'Beach Bums' (the city's Frontier League baseball team) play so that day was done. Next day ... went out for breakfast, then to a local plant nursery. Spent several hours there (much to my amazement -- for me that would be normal, but for my sis and folks? NOT!). Sis wound up buying plants to take downstate with her and my folks found a number they liked. (Couple of their flowerbeds look simply awful ... result of my not being able to get up here in the spring or fall. Been trying to move plants from one location to another without killing them or damaging them too much. Amazing how long that takes when you're trying to be careful moving bulb plants that are already a foot or more tall. So the 'renovation' has been gradual to put it kindly. I have managed to get a few areas cleared via relocations & have some idea of where to take those plots with new additions -- hence the plants the folks picked out -- to minimize maintenance once all is done.) So got back from the nursery outing and got to work on the weeding -- and there's a lot of that to do. Got one bed completed then the rain came -- and stayed. Now a new day and rain & thunder/lightning is pretty much on going with no real let up. Plan on heading back home tomorrow. Once again, don't know how much I'll be able to complete since the weather is not feeling cooperative. *sigh*

Sue, the Etap hotel is a few steps below a motel 6...quite a few steps in fact. LOL! The rooms were tiny, which were expected but the floor was really grungy and the toilet/shower area were a one piece porta potty plastic unit that had been put into a corner of the room. It was very small and the floor area by the toilet got soaked when you showered. The shower stall area was barely big enough to turn around in. Now I wish I had taken a picture! Patti, I think the house I used to live in was torn down and a new one put in it's place, there were a lot of new homes there. The town was very small, just one street with one tiny restaurant and a coffin maker. That was it...not even a post office. Stacy, yeah, I think I should've learned after our trip out west. Some of it was fun but for the most part they weren't interested in a lot of it. I've downloaded my pictures and will start posting them. Wish I had taken more videos, they are pretty funny because they are so BAD! LOL!

I see everywhere "Dumbledore can't be dead he was such a powerful how can he be killed off that easily." Well it is that easy when you use Avada Kedavra. It doesn't matter if you're muggle or a Order of Merlin 1st Class. If you get hit you're dead. Like a Wizard's Raid. Kills People Dead. Now I guess you can say his spirit might still be out there because a pheonix rose from the grave which is probably his spirit. Also his painting is in the headmasters office. There is probably an enchantment on the room to create a painting when the person dies. Now I don't think Dumbledore is as good as fooling an enchantment. Do you. Oh yeah and the idea of the inferi potion I can only see one problem with it. Not that many people have gone to the cave. In fact Dumbledore and R.A.B.(Regulus?) have been there. Well that's all except this forum is almost full so I'm starting a new one called Harry Potter book 7

What i think is going to happen in the book, is very sad. i think that harry will live in the end. although the same can not be said for ron. i think that his is one the characters that will die in the book. he will be protecting harry or his family when it happens. as for the other, i think it will be hagrid who dies trying to save harry as well. snape will turn out to be a good guy, that only killed dumbledore as he was ordered. in the chapter of HBP snape was in my opinion being watched by wormtail when narcissa and bellatrix were there. he was listening at the door for the whole conversation, and i bet voldemort had him there to find out. he had more than once chance to kill harry, but he didnt. and i think that is because that he was in love with lilly, and that is the reason he despised james as much as he did. so he is a possibility to die as well. wormtail owes harry his life. dumbledore said that he didnt think that voldemort would want someone as one of his followers that owed a lifedebt to the person he was trying to kill. as for the horcruxes, we know there are 6 of them. the diary, the ring and the locket we know are half of them. so what are the other 3? well, it could be the cup that belonged to hufflepuff, and nagini would be the fifth, but what about the last one? its not harry, that much is clear to me. why would voldemort transfer a piece of his soul to the boy that he thought he had to kill that night? doesnt make sense to me. he marked him as his equal, and transfered powers yes, but not his soul. so the 6th and final horcrux is a mystery to me. we know from what dumbledore says that the 7th and final piece for harry to kill is voldemort himself. all i can guess is that the sorting hat and the sword are not one of them. i think that harry having his mothers eyes is going to play the biggest role of the book. it is mentioned over and over in the previous books, so there must be something significant there right? could it possibly be something like celtic magic? i think that draco will turn on voldemort and realize the errors of his ways. he couldnt go through with killing dumbledore, he was scared and couldnt do it. he knew what had to be done as ordered by voldemort and still couldnt do it. he will not die, but will turn out to be a teacher at hogwarts at the end of the book. someone will find a cure for lupin and he and tonks will end up living a very happy life together. with ron dying, that opens the possibility of harry hermione getting together. and personally, that would make more sense then hermione and ron. bill and fleur will get married at the beginning of the book. mcgonagal will become headmistress at hogwarts, hagrid will become head of Gryffindor, slughorn will remain as potions teacher, and head of slytherin, and someone new will teach transfiguration. not sure about DADA class. someone new will probably be introduced. i believe that filch will...