Thread:Superkenzie/@comment-33437691-20200103172834/@comment-37542647-20200126003136

Fresh baked bread! I haven't had that since I was a child. My mom baked bread when I was a small child and occasionally after she started working. I can still smell it baking in the oven. It was so good served warm with (real) butter. Of course, it never lasted very long. I have never attempted to make yeast bread and only occasionally used the frozen dough. I know I would eat the whole loaf myself in one day. That is also the reason I don't bake scones very often. I love any kind of scone and would eat them as if they were candy. My mom went to work when I was in 7th grade to earn money for my education. One of my responsibilities was to make supper for the family. When I would get home from school I was to begin cooking and have the meal ready by 5:00 pm. I learned to cook a wide variety of foods but my mother never taught me to bake bread. Perhaps she knew it wouldn't be as good as hers or maybe she didn't have the patience. Sorry about the abbreviations. That is an example of how it is easy to misinterpret an abbreviation. I really don't know what a Herald of Luck does or the Traveler's Balloon. I may have used them but I don't remember because I usually forget the names. It takes me forever to scroll through my inventory of talismans because I need to read the description of each one. There are only a few names I can remember. I have read comments on the forum regarding "stacking" the talismans but I usually don't remember which ones to stack. Trying to remember all the talismans and their function is too much like work. I just want to play and enjoy the game. I could have advanced to a higher level if I had started using talismans earlier but I have no regrets. It has taken me 2-1/2 years to get this far. I'm in no hurry to advance. I love the story of the memorial bench! It reminds me of a book I gifted to my son several years ago. He is a natural at writing. One of his high school English teachers told me he has a very good "writing voice" and should be encouraged to write. He used to write in an on-line journal but he isn't writing much any more. That saddens me as I know he has enormous talent. Anyway, the title of the book was "Eats Shoots and Leaves". It was a book emphasizing the importance of correct punctuation. I thought it was very humorous and a great example of how easy it is for people to misunderstand the written word. My current cross stitch project is almost half completed and it is usually at this point that I begin to plan my next project. Yesterday I was looking through some of the designs and found a series of small 5x5 inch samplers featuring birds. Each design was sold separately and I noticed there was a gap between #9 and #12. I knew I had purchased all the designs and couldn't imagine where I had put the 2 missing designs. I searched my entire sewing room, the living room, the closets and desks and was unable to locate the missing designs. It drove me crazy all last evening and this morning. I knew I had purchased the designs from a shop on Etsy and I thought I would scroll through my e-mails to locate the purchase date (yes, I hoard my e-mails too; you never know when you will need to reference them). I decided to check the copyright date on the designs I had as that would help me locate the e-mail. I checked the date on #12 and it was 2016. I knew the designs were published at a later date so I checked #9 and the copyright date was 2019. Something was wrong here. When I looked at design #12 and read the "fine print" I discovered it was #12 in a different series. I felt really stupid but very relieved that I hadn't lost or thrown away the designs. Upon further inspection of #1 in the series I discovered that there were only 9 designs total. I think there is a lesson to be learned here and hopefully I will be able to remember it! Aging is such a wonderful thing! Well, I'm off to cross stitch!