For Scotty, Thanksgiving is always the official start of the holiday season. That’s when Christmas decorations come out, Christmas music starts playing on the radio, and that holiday buzz really gets started. Normally he looks forward to Thanksgiving every year because he loves the smells in the kitchen, the frenzy of cooking, the family ( Read more... )

This was their life now: fighting and monsters and nearly getting lost in an undertaker's. It wasn't exactly the sort of thing George had expected when Mitchell suggested they rent a house together-- there were a lot of things he hadn't expected, come to think of it-- but now he just had to go along with it all. Especially with he and Annie as ( Read more... )

After the Order of the Phoenix took over the house at Grimmauld Place for their headquarters and Tonks set foot in her ancestral home (in a manner of speaking) for the first time, she spent a lot of time examining the Black family tapestry. She'd found it fascinating, particularly the black scorch marks obscuring her mother's name, as well as ( Read more... )

As far as Tonks had been able to calculate, she was due within the week... and it couldn't come soon enough for her. It was getting increasingly difficult to deal with Teddy when she was having to waddle around, and her back was killing her ( Read more... )

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanIt was the third reel of six he'd found. The first two had actually made him laugh. Where did they come up with these people anyway? Some ancient waifs to play him and Lily, some old codger with an actual set of good teeth and decent hair to play Snivellus - all right, he'd give them credit for casting the ( Read more... )

Dated June 7th, 2009:
Tonks joins Charlie for a bite. An old friendship that has been rekindled becomes a little more than either of them anticipated.

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I had been yearning for something new and had gone in search of books with recipes. I had thought, as it had been happening time and again when I approached the shelf, that I would be overwhelmed with the offers of books about pregnancy and babies and naming texts and the like. Today I found myself facing a veritable wall of what appeared to be the ( Read more... )

I wanted Mexican food. Or Chinese. I couldn't decide. I'd taken a stab at both of them, though. For dinner there was fried rice with fresh peas and bits of carrot and a scant quantity of egg. A few other bits and pieces I'd found as well. It didn't smell at all like the take out I'd had from time to time, but it wasn't bad. I even had bird, pork, ( Read more... )

The sun was just starting to dip below the horizon as Fred laid the last log atop what was shortly to become a bonfire of magnificent proportions. Somewhere to his left, Bill was humming to himself as he set out the food, and Charlie was helping George set up the Birthday Conflagration, a display that would use up a fair chunk of the supply of ( Read more... )

He'd been told that dinosaur territory was dangerous. After a few days of the island community, Charlie was chuffed over the prospect of a little solitude and a little danger. Something more like dragons would suit him just fine, so he'd taken what Bill would loan him, a few things from the compound, and his own wits and set out. It had been a few ( Read more... )