Thread:Superkenzie/@comment-33437691-20200103172834/@comment-33437691-20200124175014

I had a real hoot reading that--and several stifled giggles (that hanging onto talismans bit:  why, o, why, do you think I have so many...just waiting for that RIGHT time! When you mentioned using the Golden Chicken I thought--what am I waiting for???  My God; we really are alike. But I think it's great that there's someone out there who really 'gets' me (and still likes me! Yay!)

When I was married, we lived on what they call a "bush block" in Australia; we had 40 acres we were going to do so much with--or at least, that was my understanding of the dream....no prizes for guessing how that story ends--but part of the reality was that it was in a farming district, both sheep and dairy. We approached one of the dairy farmers who was more than happy for us to drop in and buy milk straight from the tank (charging us 25 cents a gallon--I had the sense that we weren't the only ones, because he hinted in that drole Aussie way that the dairy commission had a few rules he was flouting) so here we are, decades later, both alive to tell the tale of drinking unpasteurized milk. And oh my, how good it was, too. We had chickens and ducks and though I wasn't keen on duck eggs straight up, I used them in cooking and with the fresh milk (and the ribbons of cream that rose to the top) they made the best baked custard I've ever had. You are very fortunate to have those memories of your grandparents' farm; very fortunate and very wise to appreciate it now, too.

Ditto for playing Treasure Box (and Haunted Lights). Sometimes it is just relaxing (in a stressful sort of way, given the chintzy time limit!) to play those games into the wee hours. But, remember what we were writing about abbr's? GQ? TB? HL? 😜 So I went on a quest (Q) in my inventory of talismans to discover what you meant, and this is what I came up with: Guardian Quest, using a Traveller's Balloon and Herald of Luck? How did I do? I don't get why the Herald of Luck is valuable, but you're at a higher level than I am so either I don't have the HL talsiman you really meant or I haven't come to the point where I run out of what it gives.

And finally, I, too, I constantly check my English (and typing--which I have to say now, my computer glasses aren't great so if you see errors and so forth, mea culpa, I couldn't see the mistakes...I really do know how to spell! Honest!) I meant to share this awhile ago: I was checking my usage and/or spelling of some word and landed on a site called "Literal-Minded". It being the internet, I got snared into reading some of the comments about the article I was checking and one of the readers included a photo of a memorial bench commemorating a beloved family member, as providing an example of how words can mean the exact opposite of what the writer intended. At the bottom of the was an epitaph of the personaility of this loved one, reading "Never saw a dog and didn't smile." Most of us who have English as a first language know exactly what that means, but since the site IS called Literal-Minded, one of the subsequent readers wrote, "Why didn't someone just show the poor woman a dog?" I howled with laughter and still hoot when I think of it! As I'm sure you will. Must go! The beeper is telling me my bread dough has thawed out; fresh bread smells will soon waft throughout my apartment building, driving others mad as their wonderful cooking smells do me on occasion! Of course, it won't taste AS good as it smells, but it will still be yummy. Adios!