tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46224409731417979552024-03-13T07:13:36.849-04:00The Bookworm's GACUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-68712661910956195182009-09-08T14:45:00.011-04:002009-09-08T20:49:33.642-04:00Grace, Jon, and GregoryJon and I slept for a few hours after our wedding (and after our first attempt at babymaking!), then he went off to pursue some new guitar gigs Tuesday evening, and I went out collecting.<br /><br />After all, if we're going to start a family, we need money (at the very least, we need to furnish a nursery!), and Jon--having been fired by his band, Mercy Hellhole--is having to scramble to find some income-producing work.<br /><br />I got lucky, and found a rare butterfly, and went to the Science Facility to sell it for top dollar.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqapFOCYwAI/AAAAAAAAH9k/gFBSsEf7h5Q/s1600-h/ScreenShot113.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqapFOCYwAI/AAAAAAAAH9k/gFBSsEf7h5Q/s400/ScreenShot113.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379172712073183234" border="0" /></a>Wednesday morning, I convinced my husband to go to the Sunflower Spa to get a makeover. (He had teased me into going there to get an "eyebrow makeover", so fair is fair!)<br /><br />I told Jon that, if he was trying to make a solo music career, he should get rid of the long gray ponytail. I think his new look is much better!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqao_N4AsxI/AAAAAAAAH9U/LUo1Reg75X4/s1600-h/ScreenShot115.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 116px; height: 154px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqao_N4AsxI/AAAAAAAAH9U/LUo1Reg75X4/s400/ScreenShot115.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379172608950448914" border="0" /></a>Jon starting spinning wants to learn new compositions,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqao_vr98FI/AAAAAAAAH9c/D8xd2CmQqE0/s1600-h/ScreenShot114.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqao_vr98FI/AAAAAAAAH9c/D8xd2CmQqE0/s400/ScreenShot114.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379172618026741842" border="0" /></a>so I encouraged him just to practice and to leave all household details to me.<br /><br />I used up a lot of my remaining Lifetime Happiness points purchasing rewards that I thought would help me be a good housewife and mother--Speedy Cleaner,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqao-yDymbI/AAAAAAAAH9M/JBUkQtICOfE/s1600-h/ScreenShot116.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 365px; height: 234px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqao-yDymbI/AAAAAAAAH9M/JBUkQtICOfE/s400/ScreenShot116.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379172601483663794" border="0" /></a>Steel Bladder (this one really helps in pregnancy!),<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqao-ZICX8I/AAAAAAAAH9E/xFDfPT6aZ_0/s1600-h/ScreenShot117.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 368px; height: 174px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqao-ZICX8I/AAAAAAAAH9E/xFDfPT6aZ_0/s400/ScreenShot117.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379172594790588354" border="0" /></a>and Fast Learner (in case I have to learn new skills to pass them on to my children).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqao-ANGd_I/AAAAAAAAH88/C3NGqBkI1PU/s1600-h/ScreenShot118.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 370px; height: 252px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqao-ANGd_I/AAAAAAAAH88/C3NGqBkI1PU/s400/ScreenShot118.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379172588100941810" border="0" /></a>I still had quite a few points left over, but couldn't think of anything to spend them on at this point. For one thing, I sure don't need the fertility reward!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqaovi4onAI/AAAAAAAAH80/zB8AeoAqDjg/s1600-h/ScreenShot120.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqaovi4onAI/AAAAAAAAH80/zB8AeoAqDjg/s400/ScreenShot120.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379172339712302082" border="0" /></a>My pregnancy was not difficult, and I padded around the house happily cleaning, tending my garden, and preparing dishes to leave in the fridge for Jon so that he could eat good meals whenever his difficult schedule allowed.<br /><br />By mid-morning on Friday I was getting restless so--though I was already quite large--I went out fishing, which I figured would relax me. Just after changing bait, I realized I had better get to the hospital quickly!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaovC5f0TI/AAAAAAAAH8s/S9UJjOOCgWc/s1600-h/ScreenShot121.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 339px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaovC5f0TI/AAAAAAAAH8s/S9UJjOOCgWc/s400/ScreenShot121.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379172331125985586" border="0" /></a>While on the way, in a cab I'd managed to flag down, I left a message for Jon on his cellphone.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaougJTj7I/AAAAAAAAH8k/xTAlQSKDYYI/s1600-h/ScreenShot122.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaougJTj7I/AAAAAAAAH8k/xTAlQSKDYYI/s400/ScreenShot122.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379172321797050290" border="0" /></a>He immediately rushed to meet me at the hospital--he's so good!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaouJ5JUGI/AAAAAAAAH8c/9VAPKP_WKao/s1600-h/ScreenShot123.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 129px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaouJ5JUGI/AAAAAAAAH8c/9VAPKP_WKao/s400/ScreenShot123.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379172315823689826" border="0" /></a>The delivery wasn't bad at all and, even it it had been, our new little Gregory would have been worth it!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaoNYvx7WI/AAAAAAAAH8M/sXw3T-0b28c/s1600-h/ScreenShot125.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 330px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaoNYvx7WI/AAAAAAAAH8M/sXw3T-0b28c/s400/ScreenShot125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379171752875257186" border="0" /></a>His two traits--Genius and Friendly--are not traits that either Jon or I have.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqaot15o0II/AAAAAAAAH8U/uXIjNAMepG8/s1600-h/ScreenShot124.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 128px; height: 186px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sqaot15o0II/AAAAAAAAH8U/uXIjNAMepG8/s400/ScreenShot124.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379172310457045122" border="0" /></a>After only a short time at the hospital, Jon and I headed home in a cab with our new son. (Jon had to sign an autograph for a fan, so that held us up a bit.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaoM9BfasI/AAAAAAAAH8E/Vg6B2GcAllk/s1600-h/ScreenShot126.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaoM9BfasI/AAAAAAAAH8E/Vg6B2GcAllk/s400/ScreenShot126.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379171745433348802" border="0" /></a>We were all home by early afternoon, and I fed Gregory,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaoMT5-6WI/AAAAAAAAH78/pazHw4uYDC8/s1600-h/ScreenShot127.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaoMT5-6WI/AAAAAAAAH78/pazHw4uYDC8/s400/ScreenShot127.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379171734396004706" border="0" /></a>then handed him to Jon, who played with him while I closed all the windows in the newly furnished nursery, so that Gregory wouldn't get a chill while he was napping.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaoLx59H1I/AAAAAAAAH70/fnEJcqH2wOw/s1600-h/ScreenShot129.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 364px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaoLx59H1I/AAAAAAAAH70/fnEJcqH2wOw/s400/ScreenShot129.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379171725269081938" border="0" /></a>So far, Gregory's a good sleeper--I hope that continues!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaoLZTaPhI/AAAAAAAAH7s/zf8hEue56Lc/s1600-h/ScreenShot130.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SqaoLZTaPhI/AAAAAAAAH7s/zf8hEue56Lc/s400/ScreenShot130.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379171718664961554" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, as Jon works hard to re-establish himself in music, and he and Grace <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">might </span>be expecting again....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-27687678415589916032009-09-01T00:01:00.001-04:002009-09-08T20:47:36.669-04:00The Haven-Lessens: Marriage and Family, Part 1The first thing I did after achieving my Lifetime Wish of the Perfect Garden was to purchase the Collection Helper reward (because I got sooooo many points for getting my LTW!).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVhkxuLtI/AAAAAAAAH7k/yJVk5Zc7hBs/s1600-h/ScreenShot100.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 377px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVhkxuLtI/AAAAAAAAH7k/yJVk5Zc7hBs/s400/ScreenShot100.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376336459213975250" border="0" /></a>I chose that reward not because I wanted to be rich, but because my husband-to-be was already an Elder, and I myself was only 4 days from elder, and I had no Life Fruit plants and no other way to buy myself enough time to have several children.<br /><br />So, I set my new Collection Helper to "Seeds", and went out looking for Special Seeds (which Gardenia had told me should include Life Fruit seeds).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVhIwG5MI/AAAAAAAAH7c/1j_wB6CYfVU/s1600-h/ScreenShot101.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVhIwG5MI/AAAAAAAAH7c/1j_wB6CYfVU/s400/ScreenShot101.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376336451691013314" border="0" /></a>The Collection Helper drew me to the graveyard,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVg-NZC8I/AAAAAAAAH7U/UfHNPsQ9pQk/s1600-h/ScreenShot102.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVg-NZC8I/AAAAAAAAH7U/UfHNPsQ9pQk/s400/ScreenShot102.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376336448861047746" border="0" /></a>and to the riverbank near my house,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVgRmpqyI/AAAAAAAAH7M/IV9v7z8oGY4/s1600-h/ScreenShot103.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVgRmpqyI/AAAAAAAAH7M/IV9v7z8oGY4/s400/ScreenShot103.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376336436887399202" border="0" /></a>where I picked up quite a few Special seeds.<br /><br />Back at home, I called up my fiance, Jon Lessen, and asked him to come by.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVfzSe0fI/AAAAAAAAH7E/STq4iTzVcAQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot104.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVfzSe0fI/AAAAAAAAH7E/STq4iTzVcAQ/s400/ScreenShot104.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376336428749738482" border="0" /></a>We got married Tuesday morning in my front yard, all by ourselves, with only my plants as witnesses.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVTgwI_xI/AAAAAAAAH68/8dwGgTl9Zgs/s1600-h/ScreenShot105.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 359px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVTgwI_xI/AAAAAAAAH68/8dwGgTl9Zgs/s400/ScreenShot105.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376336217615433490" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVTJd0HAI/AAAAAAAAH60/hFY6oW45wFo/s1600-h/ScreenShot106.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 372px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVTJd0HAI/AAAAAAAAH60/hFY6oW45wFo/s400/ScreenShot106.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376336211364551682" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVSmDrE7I/AAAAAAAAH6s/6VGExHHbA1s/s1600-h/ScreenShot107.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 237px; height: 279px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVSmDrE7I/AAAAAAAAH6s/6VGExHHbA1s/s400/ScreenShot107.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376336201859666866" border="0" /></a>Though Jon used to live in a half-million-dollar house, he'd recently been kicked out of it, so he moved in with me.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVSXWlAAI/AAAAAAAAH6k/cP_sWI5lb6g/s1600-h/ScreenShot108.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVSXWlAAI/AAAAAAAAH6k/cP_sWI5lb6g/s400/ScreenShot108.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376336197912428546" border="0" /></a>Though everyone in town had told me that Jon was rich, he actually brought only $2,384 to our new household when he officially moved in.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVSJQ2ucI/AAAAAAAAH6c/jMhEa0ldXoU/s1600-h/ScreenShot109.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 96px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVSJQ2ucI/AAAAAAAAH6c/jMhEa0ldXoU/s400/ScreenShot109.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376336194130328002" border="0" /></a>Though that was less than I expected, I don't care, because I'm soooooo much in love!!!<br /><br />Here's what we know about Jon (his bio, and his Traits and Favorites):<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVBsnonfI/AAAAAAAAH6U/d1QHCymjOIs/s1600-h/ScreenShot110.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVBsnonfI/AAAAAAAAH6U/d1QHCymjOIs/s400/ScreenShot110.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376335911563337202" border="0" /></a>As soon as we got married, we went to relax in the bedroom. Jon's cellphone rang.<br /><br />"Are you going to answer that?" I asked.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVBDfcvkI/AAAAAAAAH6M/PCY13MZ9DRo/s1600-h/ScreenShot111.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 382px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVBDfcvkI/AAAAAAAAH6M/PCY13MZ9DRo/s400/ScreenShot111.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376335900523150914" border="0" /></a>He turned to me and smiled his wonderful, heart-melting smile. "Nahhhhh!" he said.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVA1yrOlI/AAAAAAAAH6E/33Mhd-8YB7U/s1600-h/ScreenShot112.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpyVA1yrOlI/AAAAAAAAH6E/33Mhd-8YB7U/s400/ScreenShot112.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376335896845695570" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, for the first baby!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-47172423571037710752009-08-31T14:39:00.003-04:002009-08-31T15:23:11.955-04:00Grace Haven: GAC Challenge Completion!I got up early Sunday evening and made my bed,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAc47VI8I/AAAAAAAAH30/dGH58klWizc/s1600-h/ScreenShot070.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 238px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAc47VI8I/AAAAAAAAH30/dGH58klWizc/s400/ScreenShot070.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376172551491101634" border="0" /></a>and checked my mail. I found that the contact lenses I'd ordered (at Jon's suggestion: "You've got such pretty eyes, Grace--it's a shame to hide them!") had arrived.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_8u5U5tI/AAAAAAAAH2M/X0rMmj_Wy4I/s1600-h/ScreenShot084.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 344px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_8u5U5tI/AAAAAAAAH2M/X0rMmj_Wy4I/s400/ScreenShot084.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376171999042528978" border="0" /></a>I put my hair in a ponytail (also at Jon's suggestion: "You've got such a delicate face, Grace--it's a shame to hide it!") and called up Jon and invited him over. I was excited to show him my new look!<br /><br />He arrived shortly thereafter--talk about a new look!!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAcalbnGI/AAAAAAAAH3s/5vWe-oey-y4/s1600-h/ScreenShot071.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 361px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAcalbnGI/AAAAAAAAH3s/5vWe-oey-y4/s400/ScreenShot071.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376172543346187362" border="0" /></a>I was completely unprepared for the old-looking guy who showed up at my front door. "Jon?" I asked. "Is that really you?"<br /><br />He smiled ruefully. "I told you I was getting old, Grace."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAcGooN-I/AAAAAAAAH3k/FbggR5SfRZk/s1600-h/ScreenShot072.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 335px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAcGooN-I/AAAAAAAAH3k/FbggR5SfRZk/s400/ScreenShot072.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376172537990887394" border="0" /></a>"But you look soooooo different!" I blurted out. He looked so crestfallen at my reaction that there was only one thing to do--<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAbvrL3jI/AAAAAAAAH3c/E3PRdjLrtSg/s1600-h/ScreenShot073.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAbvrL3jI/AAAAAAAAH3c/E3PRdjLrtSg/s400/ScreenShot073.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376172531827596850" border="0" /></a>"I'm just surprised, that's all," I stammered by way of explanation. "You're still really handsome."<br /><br />We went inside, and Jon watched some arts program on TV,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAbRDmmUI/AAAAAAAAH3U/8PQ0O6kQucc/s1600-h/ScreenShot074.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAbRDmmUI/AAAAAAAAH3U/8PQ0O6kQucc/s400/ScreenShot074.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376172523608512834" border="0" /></a>while I made us dinner.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwANm3TVSI/AAAAAAAAH3M/apIfQIUeW7E/s1600-h/ScreenShot075.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwANm3TVSI/AAAAAAAAH3M/apIfQIUeW7E/s400/ScreenShot075.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376172288944330018" border="0" /></a>"Grace, the other band members voted me out of Mercy Hellhole," he told me as soon as we sat down to eat.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwANWj3S9I/AAAAAAAAH3E/SyvdYPgXz4Q/s1600-h/ScreenShot076.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwANWj3S9I/AAAAAAAAH3E/SyvdYPgXz4Q/s400/ScreenShot076.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376172284567833554" border="0" /></a>I was shocked. "Can they do that?" I asked.<br /><br />"They sure can," he said. "They told me I was 'insufficiently committed'."<br /><br />"That's terrible!" I cried. "And surely not true!!"<br /><br />"No, Grace, it's true," he answered. "I think I've been honest with you that I haven't been happy in the band for some time--that it's no longer the kind of music I want to play. Plus, the band's performance schedule is so grueling that I don't have enough time to do anything else." He paused. "Still, it was a shock to be voted out--it made my hair turn gray overnight!"<br /><br />"You've said that the band owns the house where you live," I said. "Does that mean they kicked you out of the house, too?"<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwANNAMD7I/AAAAAAAAH28/mj0bzpQ8CPA/s1600-h/ScreenShot077.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwANNAMD7I/AAAAAAAAH28/mj0bzpQ8CPA/s400/ScreenShot077.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376172282002280370" border="0" /></a>"Unfortunately, yes," he admitted. "Will you let me stay here?"<br /><br />"Of course, Jon," I assured him. We ate in silence for a few minutes. I really didn't know what else to say.<br /><br />"I thought I had the rest of my life planned out," he sighed. "All of a sudden, everything's in flux."<br /><br />I panicked. "Does this mean you feel differently about starting a family right away?"<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAMg5ToRI/AAAAAAAAH20/vBDLkj7eX-A/s1600-h/ScreenShot078.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 356px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAMg5ToRI/AAAAAAAAH20/vBDLkj7eX-A/s400/ScreenShot078.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376172270162256146" border="0" /></a>"No--not at all," he said. "It's just that we won't have a lot of money till I get my musical career going again. My money's unfortunately tied up with the band's finances, and I may have to sue them to get my share."<br /><br />"Don't you worry about that, Jon," I told him, trying to sound as reassuring as possible. "I make enough money for us to get by for the time being, and I'm positive you'll find work soon."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAMRobTWI/AAAAAAAAH2s/reIgwAF82Eg/s1600-h/ScreenShot079.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwAMRobTWI/AAAAAAAAH2s/reIgwAF82Eg/s400/ScreenShot079.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376172266064924002" border="0" /></a>I asked if he felt like talking more, or going to a movie, but he said he'd just like to take a nap. So, I gave him a kiss and went out fishing.<br /><br />Fishing is a good way to clear my mind, I've found. Whenever I'm anxious about something, it always helps just to do a long cast, and stare out over the water.<br /><br />I fished all Sunday night and into Monday morning, and had a pretty successful outing. I sold my catch at the grocery for more than $5,000,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_9soDqtI/AAAAAAAAH2k/X-fas8S6enE/s1600-h/ScreenShot080.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_9soDqtI/AAAAAAAAH2k/X-fas8S6enE/s400/ScreenShot080.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376172015613094610" border="0" /></a>went home to tend my garden and encourage my plants--especially my onion plant, which I was just sure was about to produce a Perfect harvest,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_9P83RQI/AAAAAAAAH2c/KtMWNArflv4/s1600-h/ScreenShot082.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_9P83RQI/AAAAAAAAH2c/KtMWNArflv4/s400/ScreenShot082.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376172007915734274" border="0" /></a>and went to sleep till nearly midnight.<br /><br />When I got up I sent a Luminorious gem I'd found off to the gemcutter,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_89GoshI/AAAAAAAAH2U/eK4IdJ_blSU/s1600-h/ScreenShot083.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_89GoshI/AAAAAAAAH2U/eK4IdJ_blSU/s400/ScreenShot083.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376172002856448530" border="0" /></a>and, since I had nothing else to do (Jon was out renewing contacts and trying to line up some gigs), I went to the Sunflower Spa for a facial. (Jon's been teasing me about my eyebrows--he says they look like 'two dead caterpillars'--so I decided to remedy the situation.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_8S0lfQI/AAAAAAAAH2E/EQGM5cSoAKI/s1600-h/ScreenShot085.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_8S0lfQI/AAAAAAAAH2E/EQGM5cSoAKI/s400/ScreenShot085.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376171991506451714" border="0" /></a>Fortunately, it's a 24-hour spa, because I didn't get there till well after 3:00 a.m.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_fxCXegI/AAAAAAAAH18/TWzXBIDra5c/s1600-h/ScreenShot086.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_fxCXegI/AAAAAAAAH18/TWzXBIDra5c/s400/ScreenShot086.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376171501401111042" border="0" /></a>You know how they say "A watched pot never boils"? Well, once I'd left my garden and was occupied doing something else, my onion plant produced a Perfect harvest, and I satisfied my Lifetime Wish a little after 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday, which was Day 38 of my GAC Challenge.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_faw3icI/AAAAAAAAH10/XwOrHZMKgWM/s1600-h/ScreenShot087.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_faw3icI/AAAAAAAAH10/XwOrHZMKgWM/s400/ScreenShot087.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376171495422134722" border="0" /></a>I reviewed the Goals I'd achieved:<br /><br />Level 10 in each of Cooking, Fishing, and Gardening,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_eEqLyjI/AAAAAAAAH1c/uWbFXjXPm70/s1600-h/ScreenShot090.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 128px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_eEqLyjI/AAAAAAAAH1c/uWbFXjXPm70/s400/ScreenShot090.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376171472308652594" border="0" /></a>a Perfect Garden,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_QFMtXmI/AAAAAAAAH1U/ZvK7t33sXJI/s1600-h/ScreenShot091.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 319px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_QFMtXmI/AAAAAAAAH1U/ZvK7t33sXJI/s400/ScreenShot091.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376171231935290978" border="0" /></a>the Amateur Ichthyologist sub-challenge,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_P7dnUyI/AAAAAAAAH1M/LK2JrC17NrI/s1600-h/ScreenShot092.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 41px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_P7dnUyI/AAAAAAAAH1M/LK2JrC17NrI/s400/ScreenShot092.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376171229321843490" border="0" /></a>the Menu Maven sub-challenge,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_PiUlIBI/AAAAAAAAH1E/utrfiIwnVdY/s1600-h/ScreenShot093.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 50px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_PiUlIBI/AAAAAAAAH1E/utrfiIwnVdY/s400/ScreenShot093.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376171222573064210" border="0" /></a>and the Super Green Thumb reward.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_PaQN6oI/AAAAAAAAH08/yJyqSbE1mls/s1600-h/ScreenShot094.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 219px; height: 171px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_PaQN6oI/AAAAAAAAH08/yJyqSbE1mls/s400/ScreenShot094.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376171220407282306" border="0" /></a>My lot, furnished, was worth $30,667,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_Ow4DC3I/AAAAAAAAH00/7vLPT4h1_bU/s1600-h/ScreenShot095.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_Ow4DC3I/AAAAAAAAH00/7vLPT4h1_bU/s400/ScreenShot095.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376171209300052850" border="0" /></a>I had $12, 904 in Household Funds,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_D9gFWaI/AAAAAAAAH0s/cQLFY9VD1kY/s1600-h/ScreenShot096.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 152px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_D9gFWaI/AAAAAAAAH0s/cQLFY9VD1kY/s400/ScreenShot096.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376171023710640546" border="0" /></a>I'd also completed the (not required) Botanical Boss sub-challenge,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_DvSEspI/AAAAAAAAH0k/i1jfpkbBFiQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot097.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 51px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_DvSEspI/AAAAAAAAH0k/i1jfpkbBFiQ/s400/ScreenShot097.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376171019893781138" border="0" /></a>and I had 71,651 unused Lifetime Happiness points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_DIUlVXI/AAAAAAAAH0c/SB_gklZlYN8/s1600-h/ScreenShot098.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 117px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spv_DIUlVXI/AAAAAAAAH0c/SB_gklZlYN8/s400/ScreenShot098.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376171009435325810" border="0" /></a>So, my final score for the GAC Challenge was 150,882 points!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwhEpHKAKI/AAAAAAAAH38/hG_4agOVa6c/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 249px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpwhEpHKAKI/AAAAAAAAH38/hG_4agOVa6c/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376208418812592290" border="0" /></a>I called Gardenia immediately to tell her, despite the hour, and she was thrilled for me. "Imagine that!" she said. "You beat my score and found a husband, too!"<br /><br />************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, as Grace and Jon start their life together.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-58498589062634078822009-08-30T21:00:00.002-04:002009-08-31T00:36:47.433-04:00Grace Haven: Days 34 - 35Though I had been nervous about having Jon stay over, he was a perfect gentlemen, and I slept really well. We got up early on Friday, and he took a shower (no--I didn't peek!),<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpndGWUNPdI/AAAAAAAAHyU/6ZAhVjY4ypM/s1600-h/ScreenShot041.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpndGWUNPdI/AAAAAAAAHyU/6ZAhVjY4ypM/s400/ScreenShot041.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375570731382685138" border="0" /></a>while I made us pancakes for breakfast.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpndGPKklAI/AAAAAAAAHyM/7VaOxT-gxIs/s1600-h/ScreenShot042.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 352px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpndGPKklAI/AAAAAAAAHyM/7VaOxT-gxIs/s400/ScreenShot042.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375570729463223298" border="0" /></a>"So, how soon can we get married?" Jon asked me as we sat down to eat.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpndFiwl_8I/AAAAAAAAHyE/RxTZc-OA-6Q/s1600-h/ScreenShot044.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpndFiwl_8I/AAAAAAAAHyE/RxTZc-OA-6Q/s400/ScreenShot044.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375570717543104450" border="0" /></a>"I think it's a matter of just a couple days or so," I assured him animatedly. "I've had harvests from 7 Perfect plants already, and I've got this Perfect quality onion plant, and I'm just waiting till it produces."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpnczP1hjRI/AAAAAAAAHxE/mx_uBOfXRTU/s1600-h/ScreenShot053.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 215px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpnczP1hjRI/AAAAAAAAHxE/mx_uBOfXRTU/s400/ScreenShot053.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375570403225865490" border="0" /></a>"You're too funny," he said, taking another bite.<br /><br />"What do you mean?" I asked.<br /><br />"You're just so cute, that's all. You're so passionate about all this stuff--gardening, fishing, cooking. And I know nothing about any of it," he added.<br /><br />"Well, you're passionate about Mercy Hellhole," I countered, "and I know nothing about the band--except that you play in it."<br /><br />He looked down at his plate, and didn't say anything. I felt I'd said the wrong thing (though I couldn't imagine how).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spnc8Gy2I6I/AAAAAAAAHx0/k0hmynMh7BM/s1600-h/ScreenShot045.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 321px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spnc8Gy2I6I/AAAAAAAAHx0/k0hmynMh7BM/s400/ScreenShot045.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375570555417535394" border="0" /></a>He was silent for a while, just sitting there chewing and frowning. Then, just as I was starting to clean up, he brightened and said, "Hey, it looks like you've redecorated a bit--didn't this dining set used to be gray wood, and now it's brown?"<br /><br />I told him yes, and that he'd convinced me to vary my color palette a bit. "And since you told me that brown's <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">your </span>favorite color, I thought I'd change some of the furniture to a natural, dark wood stain."<br /><br />"Looks good," he nodded.<br /><br />I was happy he'd snapped out of whatever he'd been dwelling on so seriously.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spnc7-g2QrI/AAAAAAAAHxs/2Krg4kdIFGA/s1600-h/ScreenShot046.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 236px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spnc7-g2QrI/AAAAAAAAHxs/2Krg4kdIFGA/s400/ScreenShot046.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375570553194562226" border="0" /></a>I continued. "Though I don't know if you want to live here after we're married--maybe you want us to live in your huge house, with the pool and the outdoor stage?"<br /><br />He frowned, didn't respond, and went back to contemplating his pancakes closely.<br /><br />Jon said nothing further while I cleaned up after breakfast. He changed into his swimsuit and went out to the yard to play in the sprinkler.<br /><br />'I wonder what's going on with him?' I asked myself, looking out the kitchen window back toward the river.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spnc7ullVzI/AAAAAAAAHxk/ttThmBSc8cM/s1600-h/ScreenShot047.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spnc7ullVzI/AAAAAAAAHxk/ttThmBSc8cM/s400/ScreenShot047.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375570548919457586" border="0" /></a>I got dressed to go fishing and stopped to talk to Jon on my way out.<br /><br />"Jon, it's completely fine if you want to move in here once we're married," I explained. "I just thought you might not want to leave your own house, and I wanted to be sensitive to your feelings."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spncy52meZI/AAAAAAAAHw8/7KCNfjmZFH0/s1600-h/ScreenShot054.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 338px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spncy52meZI/AAAAAAAAHw8/7KCNfjmZFH0/s400/ScreenShot054.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375570397324802450" border="0" /></a>"That house belongs to the band, Grace--it belongs to Mercy Hellhole. And I don't think you'd be comfortable there--there are always hangers-on, and innumerable people traipsing through. And it's <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">certainly </span>no place to raise kids."<br /><br />I headed out to fish. 'Oh, so that's all it was,' I told myself.<br /><br />I stayed out fishing the whole afternoon,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncW-wFtwI/AAAAAAAAHw0/_zgd_NO5T7Y/s1600-h/ScreenShot055.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncW-wFtwI/AAAAAAAAHw0/_zgd_NO5T7Y/s400/ScreenShot055.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375569917603329794" border="0" /></a>and returned home to go to bed a little after 7:00 p.m. Jon had already left (as I had expected), but again he'd left me a nice note thanking me for my hospitality.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncWgc6nGI/AAAAAAAAHws/9QXwN0f0Ktk/s1600-h/ScreenShot057.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncWgc6nGI/AAAAAAAAHws/9QXwN0f0Ktk/s400/ScreenShot057.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375569909469846626" border="0" /></a>I had another very good night's sleep, and stayed in bed till 2:00 a.m. Saturday.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncWEfWzsI/AAAAAAAAHwk/8d0u-uXM23U/s1600-h/ScreenShot058.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 237px; height: 85px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncWEfWzsI/AAAAAAAAHwk/8d0u-uXM23U/s400/ScreenShot058.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375569901963890370" border="0" /></a>I got up and sold the gnome I had caught, for $1,000,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncV_cUc9I/AAAAAAAAHwc/CqxV5npe_b4/s1600-h/ScreenShot059.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 141px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncV_cUc9I/AAAAAAAAHwc/CqxV5npe_b4/s400/ScreenShot059.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375569900608975826" border="0" /></a>and went out to the graveyard, to fish for Angelfish and Deathfish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncVkYBUVI/AAAAAAAAHwU/Bx_Oq75__jE/s1600-h/ScreenShot060.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 341px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncVkYBUVI/AAAAAAAAHwU/Bx_Oq75__jE/s400/ScreenShot060.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375569893343187282" border="0" /></a>I sold all the Deathfish plus the one shark I'd caught, for more than $5,000,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncEYPhOVI/AAAAAAAAHwM/gfAIPsnqj2c/s1600-h/ScreenShot061.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncEYPhOVI/AAAAAAAAHwM/gfAIPsnqj2c/s400/ScreenShot061.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375569598028527954" border="0" /></a>then headed over to the Science Facility to catch Robot Fish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncDxzFIjI/AAAAAAAAHwE/lr_nzkjE-sQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot062.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncDxzFIjI/AAAAAAAAHwE/lr_nzkjE-sQ/s400/ScreenShot062.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375569587708699186" border="0" /></a>(I had contractors at the house all day Sunday, refinishing the floors, the kitchen cabinets, and the interior door and window jambs--changing them from gray to a natural dark wood stain--so I was trying to stay out of the workmen's way.)<br /><br />I fished till I ran out of Piranha bait, then sold my Robot Fish plus a couple of Black Goldfish, for more than $1,000.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncDZLuuUI/AAAAAAAAHv8/P6v8rxpxyQU/s1600-h/ScreenShot063.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncDZLuuUI/AAAAAAAAHv8/P6v8rxpxyQU/s400/ScreenShot063.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375569581101201730" border="0" /></a>I stopped by my house briefly to check on my Perfect onion plant--its Growth State had now changed from "Growing" to "Mature", so I knew I'd achieve my Perfect Garden LTW very soon.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncDJwYBUI/AAAAAAAAHv0/_NH_lj6VAyk/s1600-h/ScreenShot064.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 353px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncDJwYBUI/AAAAAAAAHv0/_NH_lj6VAyk/s400/ScreenShot064.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375569576959935810" border="0" /></a>With nothing else to do (it was Saturday night, so Jon was playing a concert at the stadium with Mercy Hellhole), I went out fishing for the third time that day, this time to two spots in the branch of the river that's southeast of my lot. The first spot is near a big rock that's in the middle of the river,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncCmDnOGI/AAAAAAAAHvs/jWhtVE-mmEQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot066.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 333px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpncCmDnOGI/AAAAAAAAHvs/jWhtVE-mmEQ/s400/ScreenShot066.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375569567376947298" border="0" /></a>and the second is just before the small bridge.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpnbwVdfqpI/AAAAAAAAHvk/ilskt2bvwsQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot067.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpnbwVdfqpI/AAAAAAAAHvk/ilskt2bvwsQ/s400/ScreenShot067.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375569253684456082" border="0" /></a>I had a good outing, and fished till after midnight. I went back to the grocery, and sold the catch for over $5,500.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spnbv1yI-xI/AAAAAAAAHvc/Uci0I3wwIIA/s1600-h/ScreenShot068.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spnbv1yI-xI/AAAAAAAAHvc/Uci0I3wwIIA/s400/ScreenShot068.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375569245181115154" border="0" /></a>I went back to my house Sunday morning, and bought some new furnishings--some chandeliers and wall sconces, another kitchen counter, a trash compactor, a blender, and some rugs. If Jon and I are really going to live here, I might as well make it nice and homey.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpnbvuoseMI/AAAAAAAAHvU/Yh1Zd9dk-LU/s1600-h/ScreenShot069.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpnbvuoseMI/AAAAAAAAHvU/Yh1Zd9dk-LU/s400/ScreenShot069.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375569243262449858" border="0" /></a>I didn't spend all my money, though--if I'm lucky, I'll have to be furnishing a nursery before long!<br /><br />************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace finally achieves her LTW, and gets a big surprise from Jon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-70954756788273144842009-08-29T10:18:00.000-04:002009-08-29T10:58:11.443-04:00Grace Haven: Days 32 - 33I can't for the life of me remember what the heck I did for the rest of Tuesday; I lost my notes. I figure I must have gone collecting, and I certainly went fishing, and I certainly tended my garden.<br /><br />I got up Wednesday a bit after 8:30 a.m.,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph4BRqbxvI/AAAAAAAAHvE/JjSWrOBUTpY/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph4BRqbxvI/AAAAAAAAHvE/JjSWrOBUTpY/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375178118583273202" border="0" /></a>sent off the gems in my inventory to the gemcutter,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph4A4IoQzI/AAAAAAAAHu8/QTeGOPbWqVc/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 369px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph4A4IoQzI/AAAAAAAAHu8/QTeGOPbWqVc/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375178111730598706" border="0" /></a>and tended my garden. I was unable to improve my potato vine,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph4Ao6GBgI/AAAAAAAAHu0/TboyqnlGMPA/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 291px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph4Ao6GBgI/AAAAAAAAHu0/TboyqnlGMPA/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375178107643102722" border="0" /></a>because the produce from the Outstanding vine was only Outstanding itself,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpiWF3XJmCI/AAAAAAAAHvM/D6327T-d6bY/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 242px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpiWF3XJmCI/AAAAAAAAHvM/D6327T-d6bY/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375211182771247138" border="0" /></a>but I <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">was </span>able to improve my garlic plant, from Outstanding to Perfect.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph4ACwbtYI/AAAAAAAAHuk/Wc3oIqpJ3-E/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 229px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph4ACwbtYI/AAAAAAAAHuk/Wc3oIqpJ3-E/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375178097402033538" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph33EOV8vI/AAAAAAAAHuc/kEYt40jVkTs/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 238px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph33EOV8vI/AAAAAAAAHuc/kEYt40jVkTs/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177943177097970" border="0" /></a>I didn't rip out the Outstanding garlic plant, though, because I use so much garlic for catching Vampire Fish. Maybe having 2 plants of my own will mean I don't have to steal from the Carpenter-Rhodes garden any more....<br /><br />I got two gems back from the gemcutter (which I must have sent out yesterday, though I don't remember doing so)--one yellow sapphire and one emerald.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph32uKs6SI/AAAAAAAAHuU/rv5q_dxWzSQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph32uKs6SI/AAAAAAAAHuU/rv5q_dxWzSQ/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177937256245538" border="0" /></a>I sold them and, given what I received for them, I think it was probably worth paying $10 to have the yellow sapphire cut, but not the emerald.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph32TGP1OI/AAAAAAAAHuM/kCxAF2LwNlc/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 122px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph32TGP1OI/AAAAAAAAHuM/kCxAF2LwNlc/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177929989805282" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph31w8L9tI/AAAAAAAAHuE/97IdKWdOt7M/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 103px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph31w8L9tI/AAAAAAAAHuE/97IdKWdOt7M/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177920820803282" border="0" /></a>Still, I've been told I have to get the emerald cut done 5 times in order to be offered better quality cuts, and it sure would be nice to have better quality cuts available for the Luminorious gems, in case I find any more.<br /><br />I now had enough money to buy a sofa (so that I don't always have to read the newspaper on the toilet!), but not enough to buy the TV I want (and I think Jon would like to be able to watch TV when he's here).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph31lFqveI/AAAAAAAAHt8/ksdt74aiUSY/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph31lFqveI/AAAAAAAAHt8/ksdt74aiUSY/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177917639343586" border="0" /></a>So, I went out to make some money fishing.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3tIRFTnI/AAAAAAAAHt0/-dDOZhwiOKg/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3tIRFTnI/AAAAAAAAHt0/-dDOZhwiOKg/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177772463640178" border="0" /></a>I fished for hours,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3stWGJtI/AAAAAAAAHts/0bFrgcCLcBk/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3stWGJtI/AAAAAAAAHts/0bFrgcCLcBk/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177765236909778" border="0" /></a>and hours,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3sbuyflI/AAAAAAAAHtk/xqv6pldTWW4/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3sbuyflI/AAAAAAAAHtk/xqv6pldTWW4/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177760508640850" border="0" /></a>and got so tired that I had to take a nap at the Riverview Swim Club,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3r3R-9OI/AAAAAAAAHtc/P2CnYLTtJH0/s1600-h/ScreenShot015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3r3R-9OI/AAAAAAAAHtc/P2CnYLTtJH0/s400/ScreenShot015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177750724146402" border="0" /></a>before I could make it to the grocery to sell my catch.<br /><br />When I woke up, I sold my catch for $3,588,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3riq4kyI/AAAAAAAAHtU/z360ondsMKA/s1600-h/ScreenShot016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3riq4kyI/AAAAAAAAHtU/z360ondsMKA/s400/ScreenShot016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177745191441186" border="0" /></a>which--together with the nearly $2,000 I already had--gave me enough money to buy a lamp and a rug,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3fhSDGqI/AAAAAAAAHtM/IA6FipOcp8Y/s1600-h/ScreenShot018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 269px; height: 307px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3fhSDGqI/AAAAAAAAHtM/IA6FipOcp8Y/s400/ScreenShot018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177538660407970" border="0" /></a>the TV I wanted,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3fUDK-JI/AAAAAAAAHtE/Xr5lyvLF36Q/s1600-h/ScreenShot019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 377px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3fUDK-JI/AAAAAAAAHtE/Xr5lyvLF36Q/s400/ScreenShot019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177535108348050" border="0" /></a>a dresser,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3e0M1W4I/AAAAAAAAHs8/HHXY87Ac5K4/s1600-h/ScreenShot020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 206px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3e0M1W4I/AAAAAAAAHs8/HHXY87Ac5K4/s400/ScreenShot020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177526558940034" border="0" /></a>and some exterior lighting.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3eamax3I/AAAAAAAAHs0/dLUDFEKGqos/s1600-h/ScreenShot021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 236px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3eamax3I/AAAAAAAAHs0/dLUDFEKGqos/s400/ScreenShot021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177519686928242" border="0" /></a>I was out working in the garden Thursday afternoon when Jon surprised me by dropping by.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3eLAjhNI/AAAAAAAAHss/mPhIvEfVDg0/s1600-h/ScreenShot022.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 241px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3eLAjhNI/AAAAAAAAHss/mPhIvEfVDg0/s400/ScreenShot022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177515501585618" border="0" /></a>He snuck up behind me and kissed me.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3R3JyTqI/AAAAAAAAHsk/6wdtKUQJr0Q/s1600-h/ScreenShot023.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3R3JyTqI/AAAAAAAAHsk/6wdtKUQJr0Q/s400/ScreenShot023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177304013164194" border="0" /></a>"Grace!" he exclaimed. "What a happening look you've got going!!"<br /><br />Slightly embarrassed, I reminded him that he'd lectured me that I should always wear a hat while I was outdoors because of my very pale skin.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3RW89NhI/AAAAAAAAHsc/NsrZCUztgMw/s1600-h/ScreenShot024.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3RW89NhI/AAAAAAAAHsc/NsrZCUztgMw/s400/ScreenShot024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177295369418258" border="0" /></a>He didn't say anything in response--he just stood there grinning at me.<br /><br />Because I felt I had to say something, I blurted out that I'd bought a new TV.<br /><br />"Gee, there's <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">one </span>reason to go indoors," he teased.<br /><br />We went inside and kissed again.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3Q6xpgCI/AAAAAAAAHsU/BeGJuSVJhS4/s1600-h/ScreenShot025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 345px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3Q6xpgCI/AAAAAAAAHsU/BeGJuSVJhS4/s400/ScreenShot025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177287805796386" border="0" /></a>I squeezed him around the shoulders and he winced. "Sorry," he explained, "I think I have a touch of bursitis." So, I gave him a massage.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3Qs8EOFI/AAAAAAAAHsM/npB61tpC4Rg/s1600-h/ScreenShot026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3Qs8EOFI/AAAAAAAAHsM/npB61tpC4Rg/s400/ScreenShot026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177284091394130" border="0" /></a>I don't actually know what bursitis is, but I hope it's not serious.<br /><br />We went to watch my new TV,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3QZEsBAI/AAAAAAAAHsE/Wi9CUuBV3wE/s1600-h/ScreenShot027.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 393px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3QZEsBAI/AAAAAAAAHsE/Wi9CUuBV3wE/s400/ScreenShot027.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177278758847490" border="0" /></a>and he complimented me on my taste in decorating. "You might consider some color other than gray, at some point, though," he offered, haltingly.<br /><br />He kissed me again, and it was pretty intense.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3FRKbIDI/AAAAAAAAHr8/Ez0HC0iVMfw/s1600-h/ScreenShot028.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3FRKbIDI/AAAAAAAAHr8/Ez0HC0iVMfw/s400/ScreenShot028.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177087656861746" border="0" /></a>I broke away. "What's <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">your </span>favorite color, Jon?" I stammered.<br /><br />"Brown," he answered, smiling. "As in 'golden, brown, and delicious'--are you going to try to make me dinner again?"<br /><br />"Sure," I said, laughing, but relieved. (I'm not really ready for anything intensely physical, though I'm just crazy about Jon. I don't have a lot of experience. Okay...I don't have <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">any </span>experience.)<br /><br />While I cooked us an early dinner, Jon cooled off in one of my sprinklers.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3ExwYIqI/AAAAAAAAHr0/g4p5b6iWQ2s/s1600-h/ScreenShot029.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3ExwYIqI/AAAAAAAAHr0/g4p5b6iWQ2s/s400/ScreenShot029.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177079226114722" border="0" /></a>My goodness--he looks cute in his swimsuit!<br /><br />I called him in to eat whatever it is that I made (I don't actually remember what it was).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3EqoWxlI/AAAAAAAAHrs/MKvqtwN0IWI/s1600-h/ScreenShot030.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 324px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3EqoWxlI/AAAAAAAAHrs/MKvqtwN0IWI/s400/ScreenShot030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177077313422930" border="0" /></a>"This is fabulous, Grace," he complimented me. "Are you going to cook like this all the time when we're married?"<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3EAob8BI/AAAAAAAAHrk/T4xiKMMhKao/s1600-h/ScreenShot031.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 362px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3EAob8BI/AAAAAAAAHrk/T4xiKMMhKao/s400/ScreenShot031.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177066039472146" border="0" /></a>"Absolutely," I promised him. "Are we really getting married?"<br /><br />He looked shocked, and a bit hurt. "Of course we're getting married--why would you think we're not?"<br /><br />I fumbled around, and gave him some sort of non-response.<br /><br />"Look, Grace," he said firmly. "The only reason we're not married already is because of your danged GAC Challenge and its rules."<br /><br />"Well," I admitted, "I can't have you move in before I'm finished, but that doesn't mean I can't ask you to stay over before I'm finished."<br /><br />I can't believe I said that, but my bold words hung in the air.<br /><br />"I'd like that, Grace," Jon said, smiling again. "But no pressure," he reassured me.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3Dlmdo-I/AAAAAAAAHrc/nQQ5Aytb8GU/s1600-h/ScreenShot032.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 348px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph3Dlmdo-I/AAAAAAAAHrc/nQQ5Aytb8GU/s400/ScreenShot032.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375177058783437794" border="0" /></a>"Hey," he added, "you look tired. Why don't you take a nap while I clean up? It'll sort of make up for the other night, when you let me sleep and I left my dirty plate on your dining table."<br /><br />Jon didn't have to make the offer twice--I was exhausted.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph23F8L4JI/AAAAAAAAHrU/9lAVDDqHsxo/s1600-h/ScreenShot033.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 380px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph23F8L4JI/AAAAAAAAHrU/9lAVDDqHsxo/s400/ScreenShot033.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375176844126183570" border="0" /></a>He cleaned up after our dinner, then practiced guitar for a while. I woke up a couple of times, and could hear him through the walls.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph22sbeBZI/AAAAAAAAHrM/Iap8zl55BCU/s1600-h/ScreenShot034.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 227px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph22sbeBZI/AAAAAAAAHrM/Iap8zl55BCU/s400/ScreenShot034.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375176837278074258" border="0" /></a>I got up from my nap after about an hour, and went out to see him.<br /><br />"Oh--I was just about to join you!" he said, sounding a little disappointed.<br /><br />I told him I really needed to spend at least an hour taking care of my garden.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph22D1W2FI/AAAAAAAAHrE/QSGyDHsZ8qs/s1600-h/ScreenShot035.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 333px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph22D1W2FI/AAAAAAAAHrE/QSGyDHsZ8qs/s400/ScreenShot035.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375176826380802130" border="0" /></a>"It's just that, the sooner I get 8 Perfect plants, the sooner we can start our life together," I explained.<br /><br />"Okay," he said. "I'm cool with that," and headed into the bedroom.<br /><br />I harvested my garden, and weeded it,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph21o0moII/AAAAAAAAHq8/zCBEd76FENs/s1600-h/ScreenShot036.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph21o0moII/AAAAAAAAHq8/zCBEd76FENs/s400/ScreenShot036.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375176819129884802" border="0" /></a>checked my mail and paid my bills,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph21QYlxQI/AAAAAAAAHq0/VHFKGlzOzXI/s1600-h/ScreenShot037.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 326px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph21QYlxQI/AAAAAAAAHq0/VHFKGlzOzXI/s400/ScreenShot037.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375176812569937154" border="0" /></a>and then decided to fertilize some of my plants.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph2rqaCrSI/AAAAAAAAHqs/86XF6ky916k/s1600-h/ScreenShot038.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph2rqaCrSI/AAAAAAAAHqs/86XF6ky916k/s400/ScreenShot038.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375176647756655906" border="0" /></a>In retrospect, I guess I just kept finding more chores to do, in order to avoid a discussion--or worse, a confrontation--with Jon as to whether we'd become intimate before marriage or not.<br /><br />There, I said it.<br /><br />I was tired, and needed to go to sleep. I decided against wearing my usual short nightie, and instead changed into an undershirt (I think it's called a "wife-beater") and sweatpants.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph2rNmQnpI/AAAAAAAAHqk/e8mCT51yDOw/s1600-h/ScreenShot039.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 385px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph2rNmQnpI/AAAAAAAAHqk/e8mCT51yDOw/s400/ScreenShot039.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375176640023273106" border="0" /></a>I slipped into bed, trying very hard not to wake Jon. But he snuggled up behind me, anyway.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph2qgu3tDI/AAAAAAAAHqc/QBGYHqRklgg/s1600-h/ScreenShot040.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sph2qgu3tDI/AAAAAAAAHqc/QBGYHqRklgg/s400/ScreenShot040.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375176627979793458" border="0" /></a>"No funny stuff," I cautioned, sounding somewhat more cross than I meant to.<br /><br />"Don't worry," he said, kissing the nape of my neck. "I'm way too tired. Besides, I'm an old guy, remember?"<br /><br />***********<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Jon and Grace have a serious talk about their future, and Grace gets oh-so-close to her Perfect Garden LTW.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-41147074541428804682009-08-28T11:00:00.001-04:002009-08-28T11:00:01.229-04:00Grace Haven: Days 29 -31I got up before midnight,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa6C2nDWKI/AAAAAAAAHqM/9ccX1K7U5go/s1600-h/ScreenShot035.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 322px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa6C2nDWKI/AAAAAAAAHqM/9ccX1K7U5go/s400/ScreenShot035.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374687763495082146" border="0" /></a>and spent the first few hours of Sunday morning catching fish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa6CgUGwaI/AAAAAAAAHqE/70k-AzvzpqE/s1600-h/ScreenShot036.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 345px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa6CgUGwaI/AAAAAAAAHqE/70k-AzvzpqE/s400/ScreenShot036.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374687757510033826" border="0" /></a>I had been carrying around a wish to grow an outstanding bell pepper plant so, when the wish suddenly disappeared while I was out fishing,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa6CYvcTUI/AAAAAAAAHp8/n-7kV_ifD1k/s1600-h/ScreenShot037.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa6CYvcTUI/AAAAAAAAHp8/n-7kV_ifD1k/s400/ScreenShot037.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374687755477208386" border="0" /></a>I knew it had been satisfied and that I had received points for it.<br /><br />When I was done fishing for the morning, I went to the grocery,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa6CNKXf6I/AAAAAAAAHp0/YEhgMFkVrVk/s1600-h/ScreenShot038.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa6CNKXf6I/AAAAAAAAHp0/YEhgMFkVrVk/s400/ScreenShot038.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374687752368914338" border="0" /></a>and sold my catch for $4,885.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa6BokeluI/AAAAAAAAHps/hJJFSDTtC9A/s1600-h/ScreenShot039.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa6BokeluI/AAAAAAAAHps/hJJFSDTtC9A/s400/ScreenShot039.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374687742546319074" border="0" /></a>I went home and tended my garden ("Hurry up, guys!" I pleaded, but, since I can't talk to plants, they didn't pay much attention to me).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa50xWqx9I/AAAAAAAAHpk/eUw6qv2UNXA/s1600-h/ScreenShot040.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 338px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa50xWqx9I/AAAAAAAAHpk/eUw6qv2UNXA/s400/ScreenShot040.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374687521566017490" border="0" /></a>I climbed into bed around 9:00, and slept till nearly 6:00 p.m.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa50vAiYZI/AAAAAAAAHpc/LGtKPkCbxA0/s1600-h/ScreenShot041.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 384px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa50vAiYZI/AAAAAAAAHpc/LGtKPkCbxA0/s400/ScreenShot041.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374687520936321426" border="0" /></a>When I got up I sent my two Luminorious gems off to get cut.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0r0nykPI/AAAAAAAAHo8/Z8fLQhJ9sUg/s1600-h/ScreenShot045.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0r0nykPI/AAAAAAAAHo8/Z8fLQhJ9sUg/s400/ScreenShot045.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374681870266175730" border="0" /></a>They were worth $289 and $298 uncut, and it cost me $10 each to get them cut into the emerald shape. So, we'll see what the $20 investment gets me.<br /><br />In the mail I received three certificates--one for gardening, one for cooking, and one for fishing.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa50SP9OyI/AAAAAAAAHpU/x7LqcdgBN0o/s1600-h/ScreenShot042.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 159px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa50SP9OyI/AAAAAAAAHpU/x7LqcdgBN0o/s400/ScreenShot042.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374687513216367394" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa5z4MDL4I/AAAAAAAAHpM/XpRKYTBiPzg/s1600-h/ScreenShot043.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 206px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa5z4MDL4I/AAAAAAAAHpM/XpRKYTBiPzg/s400/ScreenShot043.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374687506220658562" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa5zn-efRI/AAAAAAAAHpE/-z5eWKjW_M0/s1600-h/ScreenShot044.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 157px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa5zn-efRI/AAAAAAAAHpE/-z5eWKjW_M0/s400/ScreenShot044.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374687501868760338" border="0" /></a>I wonder why these all came together--I've been a Level 10 angler for quite some time now.<br /><br />I spent the early evening making a few more improvements to my house--<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0ruizXMI/AAAAAAAAHo0/UjBVj2P8Xaw/s1600-h/ScreenShot046.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0ruizXMI/AAAAAAAAHo0/UjBVj2P8Xaw/s400/ScreenShot046.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374681868634643650" border="0" /></a>another front door, side patio doors (okay--I don't have a patio, but I will some day), a couple more counters, and many more windows. (Gosh, windows are expensive!--I had spent nearly $5,000 before I'd even realized it.)<br /><br />I thought my little house was finally nice enough to invite over my fiance, Jon Lessen, so I did.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0rcRY14I/AAAAAAAAHos/OArj7yYRsvY/s1600-h/ScreenShot047.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 172px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0rcRY14I/AAAAAAAAHos/OArj7yYRsvY/s400/ScreenShot047.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374681863729764226" border="0" /></a>Before he arrived, I hurriedly got to work preparing dinner.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0q9ZZacI/AAAAAAAAHok/q4d6dd8REqU/s1600-h/ScreenShot048.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 241px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0q9ZZacI/AAAAAAAAHok/q4d6dd8REqU/s400/ScreenShot048.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374681855441856962" border="0" /></a><br />Here's a big admission--even though I'm a Level 10 cook, I've never actually prepared a meal. Since the GAC Challenge doesn't require me to do any real cooking, but only to study Cooking and learn recipes, I always saved time by just eating produce out of my backpack.<br /><br />Despite this absence of any practical skill, I spun a wish to serve a perfect meal to Jon.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0qnK5lwI/AAAAAAAAHoc/jVzMGtnRxUY/s1600-h/ScreenShot049.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0qnK5lwI/AAAAAAAAHoc/jVzMGtnRxUY/s400/ScreenShot049.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374681849475471106" border="0" /></a>"Well, that's probably not going to happen!" I observed grimly. I started doggedly preparing Ratatouille--figuring Jon would be impressed that I was making him dinner out of my own produce--and was interrupted by Jon's arrival.<br /><br />I went outside and threw my arms around him and kissed him.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpcLGFHnv5I/AAAAAAAAHqU/c7KMWuxz_ts/s1600-h/ScreenShot050.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpcLGFHnv5I/AAAAAAAAHqU/c7KMWuxz_ts/s400/ScreenShot050.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374776879371239314" border="0" /></a>"Are you almost done?" he asked me.<br /><br />"Oh, sorry, Jon--I've just <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">started </span>dinner. This is actually the first time I've ever cooked anything, so I'm following the recipe really carefully."<br /><br />"I don't mean dinner, dopey," he said affectionately. "I mean the GAC Challenge."<br /><br />I explained that all I was waiting on was my Perfect Garden LTW, and that it was just a matter of time.<br /><br />"Okaaaaay," he said, settling down at my new dining table with a romance novel, "but I'm not getting any younger." (I think I heard him sigh softly.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0Ji2QmBI/AAAAAAAAHoM/-FJesYY7PvY/s1600-h/ScreenShot051.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0Ji2QmBI/AAAAAAAAHoM/-FJesYY7PvY/s400/ScreenShot051.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374681281379473426" border="0" /></a>It took me so long to make dinner--I'm a Perfectionist, so I felt it necessary to start over a couple of times--that Jon actually asked me if he could go take a nap in my bedroom. He'd played a concert with Mercy Hellhole last night at the stadium, and then a benefit at the theatre this afternoon. "It'll just be a short nap--I'll wake up in probably half an hour," he assured me.<br /><br />I told him that was okay, and honestly I was a bit relieved to be left alone to finish cooking so that I could concentrate and not be nervous while making my first meal.<br /><br />I finally got the ratatouille into the oven a bit after 9:00 p.m.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0JGii1XI/AAAAAAAAHoE/F5QeJATVcY8/s1600-h/ScreenShot052.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0JGii1XI/AAAAAAAAHoE/F5QeJATVcY8/s400/ScreenShot052.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374681273780589938" border="0" /></a>When dinner was finally ready, I peeked into the bedroom to check on Jon. He was sleeping soundly (he'd been in there for over an hour), and I didn't have the heart to wake him. (Jon has mentioned before that his schedule with Mercy Hellhole is grueling, and leaves him no time to do what he wants or to play the kind of music he wants to play.)<br /><br />So, I ate by myself, and put the leftover ratatouille in the fridge. (It wasn't a Perfect meal, anyway.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0I4872EI/AAAAAAAAHn8/Z3oDidZ_Et0/s1600-h/ScreenShot053.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 372px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0I4872EI/AAAAAAAAHn8/Z3oDidZ_Et0/s400/ScreenShot053.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374681270133184578" border="0" /></a>I left Jon a note on the dining table that I would be outside gardening, and that whenever he awoke he should call me and I would reheat dinner for him.<br /><br />I went out to the garden, and found that the Death Flower Bush I'd planted from the seeds I'd harvested at the graveyard was of Perfect Quality. (Gee, I hope that counts toward the "Plant and Grow 8 Different Species of Perfect Plants" definition of my Perfect Garden LTW.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0IrCIKMI/AAAAAAAAHn0/YI712FvEtLg/s1600-h/ScreenShot054.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spa0IrCIKMI/AAAAAAAAHn0/YI712FvEtLg/s400/ScreenShot054.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374681266396866754" border="0" /></a>An hour later I was done tending my garden, but Jon showed no signs of waking up, and it was prime Deathfish-catching time. So, I changed the note on the dining table to say that I was going fishing, that if he needed me he could call me on my cellphone, but that there was leftover ratatouille in the fridge if he was hungry.<br /><br />So, I went fishing at the graveyard and the Science Facility.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spaz_MRQsBI/AAAAAAAAHns/jXIrgfwerWI/s1600-h/ScreenShot056.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spaz_MRQsBI/AAAAAAAAHns/jXIrgfwerWI/s400/ScreenShot056.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374681103520018450" border="0" /></a>I caught a fair number of fish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spaz-urYNxI/AAAAAAAAHnk/NcuEHiDk9Po/s1600-h/ScreenShot057.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spaz-urYNxI/AAAAAAAAHnk/NcuEHiDk9Po/s400/ScreenShot057.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374681095576499986" border="0" /></a>and sold them at the grocery on my way home,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spaz-ae-6OI/AAAAAAAAHnc/XJF74jaMzJo/s1600-h/ScreenShot058.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spaz-ae-6OI/AAAAAAAAHnc/XJF74jaMzJo/s400/ScreenShot058.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374681090155800802" border="0" /></a>and earned another $1,189.<br /><br />Once I got home, I rushed into the bedroom to see if Jon was still there.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spaz-KXrWYI/AAAAAAAAHnU/TuXV0NKVeGs/s1600-h/ScreenShot059.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spaz-KXrWYI/AAAAAAAAHnU/TuXV0NKVeGs/s400/ScreenShot059.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374681085830191490" border="0" /></a>He wasn't, though he'd left me a nice note thanking me for letting him catch up on his sleep, telling me he'd enjoyed the ratatouille, and saying he'd call me later.<br /><br />So, I went to bed.<br /><br />I got up a bit before 3:00 p.m., and reheated some ratatouille for myself.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazpUvqv9I/AAAAAAAAHnM/gvDfZan96zE/s1600-h/ScreenShot060.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazpUvqv9I/AAAAAAAAHnM/gvDfZan96zE/s400/ScreenShot060.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374680727837917138" border="0" /></a> Jon had left his dinner plate from the night before on the dining table and, though it was emitting green fumes, I didn't clean it up before I was done eating. Kind of pathetic, I know, but I missed Jon, and I was regretting that our first evening together hadn't gone a bit more smoothly.<br /><br />I took inventory of my garden,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazpM1d3OI/AAAAAAAAHnE/CqgZwS79bNc/s1600-h/ScreenShot061.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazpM1d3OI/AAAAAAAAHnE/CqgZwS79bNc/s400/ScreenShot061.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374680725714754786" border="0" /></a>checked my mail,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazotB2lDI/AAAAAAAAHm8/z3mT5eEzFYc/s1600-h/ScreenShot062.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazotB2lDI/AAAAAAAAHm8/z3mT5eEzFYc/s400/ScreenShot062.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374680717176771634" border="0" /></a>and received the two Luminorious gems back from the gemcutter.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spazof3yLiI/AAAAAAAAHm0/C6iZF2hGQN4/s1600-h/ScreenShot063.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 129px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spazof3yLiI/AAAAAAAAHm0/C6iZF2hGQN4/s400/ScreenShot063.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374680713644879394" border="0" /></a>I was able to sell the cut gems for $733, which was much better than the $587 I would have gotten for them if I hadn't had them cut.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spazn3dUe_I/AAAAAAAAHms/JY58EryGXmA/s1600-h/ScreenShot064.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 103px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Spazn3dUe_I/AAAAAAAAHms/JY58EryGXmA/s400/ScreenShot064.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374680702796463090" border="0" /></a>It was too early for Deathfish, so I decided to try to catch more Vampire Fish. I went down to the Carpenter-Rhodes garden to harvest some of their garlic,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazfjHwMQI/AAAAAAAAHmk/X8Y_p2iJspI/s1600-h/ScreenShot065.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazfjHwMQI/AAAAAAAAHmk/X8Y_p2iJspI/s400/ScreenShot065.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374680559898341634" border="0" /></a>then set out for one of my favorite fishing spots--just north of the southeasternmost bridge--where I could catch Vampire Fish, Angelfish, and Piranha (the bait for Robot Fish), among others.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazfSCVIRI/AAAAAAAAHmc/36kJ6VUp_uk/s1600-h/ScreenShot066.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 347px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazfSCVIRI/AAAAAAAAHmc/36kJ6VUp_uk/s400/ScreenShot066.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374680555312193810" border="0" /></a>I fished there and, later, at the Science Facility, and had a very good evening.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazewsdVzI/AAAAAAAAHmU/WLED04dftYI/s1600-h/ScreenShot067.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazewsdVzI/AAAAAAAAHmU/WLED04dftYI/s400/ScreenShot067.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374680546362087218" border="0" /></a>I sold my catch for $1,957,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazerAmLOI/AAAAAAAAHmM/Xyqr5RKssgM/s1600-h/ScreenShot068.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazerAmLOI/AAAAAAAAHmM/Xyqr5RKssgM/s400/ScreenShot068.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374680544835939554" border="0" /></a>and went home to sleep for most of Tuesday.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazeXu8zXI/AAAAAAAAHmE/FWpa1x3hibA/s1600-h/ScreenShot069.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 362px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpazeXu8zXI/AAAAAAAAHmE/FWpa1x3hibA/s400/ScreenShot069.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374680539661651314" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace finally buys something to sit on and read, other than her toilet. She dons a cute new gardening look, and Jon--who drops by--loves it. He hangs around, looks buff in his swimsuit playing in the sprinkler while Grace gives making dinner another try, and he even stays the night.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-38209849055847452292009-08-27T10:00:00.002-04:002009-08-27T10:43:06.727-04:00Grace Haven: Days 27 - 28Since I was down to only $3 in Household Funds, I went out fishing for Deathfish Friday before dawn,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcksetxlI/AAAAAAAAHl8/whRXfBFF3EE/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcksetxlI/AAAAAAAAHl8/whRXfBFF3EE/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374444253309945426" border="0" /></a>and managed to catch three.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXckUviPuI/AAAAAAAAHl0/jtPlIBhdoPI/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 161px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXckUviPuI/AAAAAAAAHl0/jtPlIBhdoPI/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374444246938042082" border="0" /></a>Once the Deathfish disappeared at 5:00 a.m., I changed fishing spots to in front of the Science Facility,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXckBciKFI/AAAAAAAAHls/yIzyNnTtOk8/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXckBciKFI/AAAAAAAAHls/yIzyNnTtOk8/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374444241758070866" border="0" /></a>and caught several Vampire Fish, Robot Fish, and other fish.<br /><br />I sold them all at the grocery,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcciWRNmI/AAAAAAAAHlk/kna0vyGS2QE/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcciWRNmI/AAAAAAAAHlk/kna0vyGS2QE/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374444113151211106" border="0" /></a>for nearly $5,000.<br /><br />I spun a wish to buy a handiness book,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXccCCYOKI/AAAAAAAAHlc/E56JAuGATWM/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 378px; height: 279px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXccCCYOKI/AAAAAAAAHlc/E56JAuGATWM/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374444104477849762" border="0" /></a>so I did the same trick I'd thought up before with respect to the "Buy a Cooking Book" wish--I bought the cheapest volume from the bookstore and immediately sold it back to the bookstore, "used".<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcb9HEq1I/AAAAAAAAHlU/e9fomBVGPRA/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcb9HEq1I/AAAAAAAAHlU/e9fomBVGPRA/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374444103155362642" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcbj-DUsI/AAAAAAAAHlM/fwkU7AAhp60/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcbj-DUsI/AAAAAAAAHlM/fwkU7AAhp60/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374444096406639298" border="0" /></a>So, for $2, I reaped 250 Lifetime Happiness points.<br /><br />I returned home and harvested my garden.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcbTddx1I/AAAAAAAAHlE/nj0XtcxEt54/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcbTddx1I/AAAAAAAAHlE/nj0XtcxEt54/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374444091974993746" border="0" /></a>My slowpoke watermelon vine finally reached Very Nice quality. This is agonizing! This is a Level 5 plant, and I've got Level 7 plants--that I planted days later--that are way ahead of the watermelon.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcRlqq6MI/AAAAAAAAHk8/q_RQLfJMxVQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 387px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcRlqq6MI/AAAAAAAAHk8/q_RQLfJMxVQ/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374443925063526594" border="0" /></a>I decided to surrender a Perfect Angelfish to fertilize the dratted thing, hoping to speed it along.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcRK1u2pI/AAAAAAAAHk0/-sihm2JQQXM/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 328px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcRK1u2pI/AAAAAAAAHk0/-sihm2JQQXM/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374443917862165138" border="0" /></a>Since I had not much else to do--my final Goal in the GAC Challenge was to achieve the Perfect Garden and, except for basic garden-tending and savvy fertilizing, there was nothing for me to do but wait--I turned my attention to building my house.<br /><br />I had a contractor construct and enclose a bedroom and a bath, and a second bedroom and bath (for my first baby, I hope!), and I moved my bed/bath furnishings inside and moved my kitchen equipment against a rear wall I'd had built.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcQqKcb3I/AAAAAAAAHks/bK6QTbb_tpY/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 384px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcQqKcb3I/AAAAAAAAHks/bK6QTbb_tpY/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374443909090668402" border="0" /></a>I tried out my new, private bathroom (I was just sitting there reading the paper, because I still don't have an armchair!), and then went to sleep in my new, private bedroom.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcQVNfnlI/AAAAAAAAHkk/srVuB4754Iw/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 378px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcQVNfnlI/AAAAAAAAHkk/srVuB4754Iw/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374443903466315346" border="0" /></a>While asleep, though, I suffered from a negative moodlet--which almost never happens to me--because the floors in my 2 new rooms were unfinished.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcQBhrDjI/AAAAAAAAHkc/BgIwXQM8se8/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 354px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXcQBhrDjI/AAAAAAAAHkc/BgIwXQM8se8/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374443898182241842" border="0" /></a>So, I woke up briefly, made a call to the contractor, and had him remedy this. I slept right through it all--I was sooo tired.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbfBy3kKI/AAAAAAAAHkU/1stq4cBD3DA/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbfBy3kKI/AAAAAAAAHkU/1stq4cBD3DA/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374443056440774818" border="0" /></a>I just <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">love </span>gray--don't you think it's the most elegant color? (I guess I should remember to ask Jon what his favorite color is.)<br /><br />I woke up again before dawn and went fishing for Deathfish, and caught several, plus a few Vampire Fish and other fish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbeje4h7I/AAAAAAAAHkM/JLrHiFk-q0c/s1600-h/ScreenShot015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbeje4h7I/AAAAAAAAHkM/JLrHiFk-q0c/s400/ScreenShot015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374443048303888306" border="0" /></a>I spun a wish to see a ghost,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbeT3a_rI/AAAAAAAAHkE/H9hqiuD44iA/s1600-h/ScreenShot016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbeT3a_rI/AAAAAAAAHkE/H9hqiuD44iA/s400/ScreenShot016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374443044111842994" border="0" /></a>so I climbed the hill from my fishing spot to the graveyard.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbd-eQfXI/AAAAAAAAHj8/zBXhbkfndIY/s1600-h/ScreenShot017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbd-eQfXI/AAAAAAAAHj8/zBXhbkfndIY/s400/ScreenShot017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374443038369152370" border="0" /></a>It wasn't too scary, and it was <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">certainly </span>worth 600 Lifetime Happiness points.<br /><br />I found a couple of seeds while I was there,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbUt6G2pI/AAAAAAAAHjs/FrSnjJLPsIg/s1600-h/ScreenShot019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbUt6G2pI/AAAAAAAAHjs/FrSnjJLPsIg/s400/ScreenShot019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442879303735954" border="0" /></a>and even found a Death Fruit plant that, to my surprise, I was able to harvest.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbUA-NVZI/AAAAAAAAHjk/Go3EJ164q_0/s1600-h/ScreenShot020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbUA-NVZI/AAAAAAAAHjk/Go3EJ164q_0/s400/ScreenShot020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442867241342354" border="0" /></a>I caught some butterflies,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbThGDN8I/AAAAAAAAHjc/Znf2LF2ONQk/s1600-h/ScreenShot022.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbThGDN8I/AAAAAAAAHjc/Znf2LF2ONQk/s400/ScreenShot022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442858684299202" border="0" /></a>and beetles,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbTfOHf9I/AAAAAAAAHjU/-in0ypLH2N4/s1600-h/ScreenShot023.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 388px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbTfOHf9I/AAAAAAAAHjU/-in0ypLH2N4/s400/ScreenShot023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442858181263314" border="0" /></a>and, once I'd spun a wish to find a rock,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbTK9bDqI/AAAAAAAAHjM/1wGl9Ockhwk/s1600-h/ScreenShot024.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 377px; height: 302px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbTK9bDqI/AAAAAAAAHjM/1wGl9Ockhwk/s400/ScreenShot024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442852742532770" border="0" /></a>I found not one but two Luminorious Gems!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbLBRyINI/AAAAAAAAHjE/fQOSJtE1zTI/s1600-h/ScreenShot025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 231px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbLBRyINI/AAAAAAAAHjE/fQOSJtE1zTI/s400/ScreenShot025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442712704622802" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbKpqmOaI/AAAAAAAAHi8/HZ0LZwPQMxg/s1600-h/ScreenShot026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 78px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbKpqmOaI/AAAAAAAAHi8/HZ0LZwPQMxg/s400/ScreenShot026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442706366249378" border="0" /></a>I went to the grocery and sold lots of stuff,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbKDo2lMI/AAAAAAAAHi0/6l6sYH7Ukp8/s1600-h/ScreenShot027.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbKDo2lMI/AAAAAAAAHi0/6l6sYH7Ukp8/s400/ScreenShot027.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442696158385346" border="0" /></a>for $4,669.<br /><br />Since I still had a lot of energy, I resumed fishing in front of the Science Facility,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbJytTuJI/AAAAAAAAHis/aDQbMnVKeYk/s1600-h/ScreenShot028.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbJytTuJI/AAAAAAAAHis/aDQbMnVKeYk/s400/ScreenShot028.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442691613669522" border="0" /></a>caught lots of fish, did a long cast across the river,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbJRhc9UI/AAAAAAAAHik/eLD-ZjCWUlw/s1600-h/ScreenShot029.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXbJRhc9UI/AAAAAAAAHik/eLD-ZjCWUlw/s400/ScreenShot029.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442682705573186" border="0" /></a>and caught even more. I went back to the grocery, and sold this latest catch for $2,451.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXa--TKPLI/AAAAAAAAHic/uk93F349t24/s1600-h/ScreenShot030.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXa--TKPLI/AAAAAAAAHic/uk93F349t24/s400/ScreenShot030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442505746660530" border="0" /></a>This brought my Household Funds to $7,149, and I left instructions with the contractor while I caught up on my sleep.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXa-KEl7HI/AAAAAAAAHiM/fYidlUV5d0g/s1600-h/ScreenShot032.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 67px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXa-KEl7HI/AAAAAAAAHiM/fYidlUV5d0g/s400/ScreenShot032.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442491726916722" border="0" /></a>My kitchen could now be enclosed, and a dining/family area constructed and enclosed as well. I also bought a dining table and 2 chairs (just in case I can get Jon here for dinner!).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXa9GrNjCI/AAAAAAAAHh8/QmWN969DzWA/s1600-h/ScreenShot034.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXa9GrNjCI/AAAAAAAAHh8/QmWN969DzWA/s400/ScreenShot034.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442473635286050" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXa9iTecnI/AAAAAAAAHiE/KAeujwm711U/s1600-h/ScreenShot033.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 324px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpXa9iTecnI/AAAAAAAAHiE/KAeujwm711U/s400/ScreenShot033.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374442481051923058" border="0" /></a>I just love the idea of a "family room"--it sounds so hopeful!<br /><br />************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace works hard at fishing--but her garden isn't working as hard as she is. She adds a couple more rooms and more furnishings to her small house, and finally invites her patient fiance, Jon Lessen, over for dinner.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-22988041440945645152009-08-26T19:12:00.000-04:002009-08-26T19:12:19.390-04:00Grace Haven: Days 25 - 26True to my promise to myself, I got up early Wednesday and went to catch Deathfish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGROVtC_I/AAAAAAAAHhk/XWpVSvjdIQA/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGROVtC_I/AAAAAAAAHhk/XWpVSvjdIQA/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374349360801582066" border="0" /></a>By 5:00 a.m.--the time when Deathfish always disappear--I had caught 3, and went straight to the grocery to sell them for $2,773!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGQvyiT6I/AAAAAAAAHhc/KhOFmu-82c0/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGQvyiT6I/AAAAAAAAHhc/KhOFmu-82c0/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374349352601014178" border="0" /></a>I finally had enough money to buy the Ambrosia recipe. I rushed to the library and, before 2:00 p.m., had learned that recipe and completed the Menu Maven subchallenge. Another Goal completed, and I even received 5,000 Lifetime Happiness points for learning every recipe!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGP1BUPmI/AAAAAAAAHhM/xos-fr-Pd3E/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGP1BUPmI/AAAAAAAAHhM/xos-fr-Pd3E/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374349336825314914" border="0" /></a>(I briefly considered purchasing the Fast Learner reward, which cost 15,000 points,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWUG5_1VNI/AAAAAAAAHhs/r3qddg-mTzE/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 396px; height: 125px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWUG5_1VNI/AAAAAAAAHhs/r3qddg-mTzE/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374364576705238226" border="0" /></a> but decided against it because I was already so far ahead in my study that I didn't think it would be a worthwhile purchase at this point.)<br /><br />Cheered by my accomplishment of one of the last few Goals in the GAC Challenge, I stayed at the library to study Gardening.<br /><br />I reached Level 9 before 4:00 p.m.,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGDVoY_qI/AAAAAAAAHhE/VJy_EmZZFis/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGDVoY_qI/AAAAAAAAHhE/VJy_EmZZFis/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374349122240839330" border="0" /></a>and got about halfway to Level 10 before I had to go home to rest mid-evening.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGDObtZsI/AAAAAAAAHg8/W0_GDJmjg_E/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGDObtZsI/AAAAAAAAHg8/W0_GDJmjg_E/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374349120308602562" border="0" /></a>I had a wish to make my bed, so did so, just to get the promised 150 points,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGCm5hTbI/AAAAAAAAHg0/b30fEfIROwU/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 361px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGCm5hTbI/AAAAAAAAHg0/b30fEfIROwU/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374349109696220594" border="0" /></a>which brought me very close to 20,000 points. When I get to 20,000 I might buy another reward, though I haven't yet decided which one.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGCVhRY_I/AAAAAAAAHgs/KniPP9KhCvQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 50px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGCVhRY_I/AAAAAAAAHgs/KniPP9KhCvQ/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374349105031111666" border="0" /></a>I figured I would get to 20,000 while I slept.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGCAJUc0I/AAAAAAAAHgk/to7RSNhH6OQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 356px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWGCAJUc0I/AAAAAAAAHgk/to7RSNhH6OQ/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374349099293504322" border="0" /></a>I got out of bed Thursday before 4:00 a.m., and found I'd reached exactly 20,000 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFrcp6kvI/AAAAAAAAHgc/9u-MWl6_Hr8/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFrcp6kvI/AAAAAAAAHgc/9u-MWl6_Hr8/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374348711809422066" border="0" /></a>I looked at the available rewards, but decided that none of the 20,000-point rewards was worth getting. I resolved to hold out for the 40,000-point Collection Helper.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFqoPcMVI/AAAAAAAAHgM/o9uc3vDchtg/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 167px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFqoPcMVI/AAAAAAAAHgM/o9uc3vDchtg/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374348697739735378" border="0" /></a>My rationale for this was that I needed lots of money from finding gems and other things to create a nice home, so that I wouldn't be embarrassed to have my fiance, Jon, visit me. Though I don't know where we're going to live after we're married, since he already seems to have a house. It's huge, and up the street from me--<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpW_WRuDz9I/AAAAAAAAHh0/P2rF6FbCQoY/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpW_WRuDz9I/AAAAAAAAHh0/P2rF6FbCQoY/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374412119771172818" border="0" /></a>I've walked by, but never rang the doorbell (because Jon says he's so rarely there).<br /><br />I satisfied a wish to make my bed,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFqd3e-4I/AAAAAAAAHgE/-1s1SxK9niA/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFqd3e-4I/AAAAAAAAHgE/-1s1SxK9niA/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374348694954900354" border="0" /></a>and another to unclog my toilet. (Had to do that, anyway.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFgqH82ZI/AAAAAAAAHf4/CiI0VM5rUbs/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFgqH82ZI/AAAAAAAAHf4/CiI0VM5rUbs/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374348526446500242" border="0" /></a>I tended my garden (no new Perfect plants--boo, hiss!),<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFgPKJi6I/AAAAAAAAHfs/8NEufAoAnQA/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFgPKJi6I/AAAAAAAAHfs/8NEufAoAnQA/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374348519207963554" border="0" /></a>and headed to the library to try to finish off Gardening. Jon was there,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFfd5iU5I/AAAAAAAAHfg/0ENljBPIeEw/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFfd5iU5I/AAAAAAAAHfg/0ENljBPIeEw/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374348505984947090" border="0" /></a>and as usual a couple of kisses from him put me in a terrific mood.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFebkuLJI/AAAAAAAAHfU/9syGYwTVY4c/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 373px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFebkuLJI/AAAAAAAAHfU/9syGYwTVY4c/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374348488180903058" border="0" /></a>That's why it's worth dating a Great Kisser!<br /><br />Buoyed by John's loving encouragement, I reached Gardening Level 10.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFXJyg4YI/AAAAAAAAHfM/vUvu967QNG0/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFXJyg4YI/AAAAAAAAHfM/vUvu967QNG0/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374348363147829634" border="0" /></a>That was really enough for one day, so I went home to sleep at about 7:30,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFWmG_RJI/AAAAAAAAHfE/z8RbCBJ9zoc/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 263px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFWmG_RJI/AAAAAAAAHfE/z8RbCBJ9zoc/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374348353570030738" border="0" /></a>but got up a bit after 11:00,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFWHXnysI/AAAAAAAAHe8/cTXEHK7aBNA/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 363px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFWHXnysI/AAAAAAAAHe8/cTXEHK7aBNA/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374348345318296258" border="0" /></a>just to get 250 points for cleaning my toilet.<br /><br />Then I went right back to bed.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFV4iZyrI/AAAAAAAAHe0/JLFFhm7L16I/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpWFV4iZyrI/AAAAAAAAHe0/JLFFhm7L16I/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374348341336984242" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace makes loads of money and starts building her house.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-10119514311964272242009-08-25T19:57:00.012-04:002009-08-26T14:32:41.490-04:00Grace Haven: Days 23 - 24I forgot to mention that I became an Adult yesterday, Sunday. It slipped my mind because it was so anticlimatic--no cake, no noisemakers, no fireworks, nothing.<br /><br />Jon did call, though, during the intermission of a concert he was playing with Mercy Hellhole, just to wish me well. He teased that he was happy I was getting older so that--when we finally <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">do </span>get married--people won't laugh at such an old guy being with such a young girl. He's always emphasizing his age! He doesn't look that old to me.<br /><br />Anyway, I had accumulated quite a few Angelfish, so decided early Monday morning to go after some Deathfish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVInyxAGgI/AAAAAAAAHeE/5xaSydzspZw/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 124px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVInyxAGgI/AAAAAAAAHeE/5xaSydzspZw/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374281578815953410" border="0" /></a>and in a few hours' time had caught 5 of them.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVInfzeMnI/AAAAAAAAHd8/2BmG1QUcWUw/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 97px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVInfzeMnI/AAAAAAAAHd8/2BmG1QUcWUw/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374281573726040690" border="0" /></a>I promptly went to the grocery and sold them,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVInE7mwSI/AAAAAAAAHd0/7DmwuykfXgQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVInE7mwSI/AAAAAAAAHd0/7DmwuykfXgQ/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374281566512398626" border="0" /></a>which earned me enough money for the Baked Angel Food Cake recipe (but not yet enough for the Ambrosia recipe which--even with my big discount--still cost $9,000).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVIm2qq_MI/AAAAAAAAHds/n4Kl6n8fv_w/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVIm2qq_MI/AAAAAAAAHds/n4Kl6n8fv_w/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374281562683276482" border="0" /></a>The best way to make money that I can think of is to sell Deathfish, but to catch them you need Angelfish, to catch those you need Alley Catfish, and to catch those you need cheese--and I had none of that and no way to get any. (Gardenia had told me to expect a call from the bistro or the diner once I had reached Gardening Level 8, and that I would be invited to complete a challenge that would allow me to grow cheese and egg plants, but that call hadn't come--I don't know why, and neither does Gardenia.)<br /><br />So, I pretty much just caught Angelfish by accident--I'd go somewhere where they were prevalent, and also other fish for which I <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">do </span>have the preferred bait, and I would always end up catching a few Angelfish that I could then use to catch Deathfish.<br /><br />The other difficulty with relying on Deathfish to make money is that you can fish for them only between midnight and 5:00 a.m., and sometimes that doesn't fit into my schedule.<br /><br />So, I resolved to concentrate on catching Vampire Fish for a while--they sell for good prices, too, at the grocery, and you can catch them any time of the day. I needed more garlic to use as bait for them, so I headed south to the Carpenter-Rhodes garden to "borrow" some.<br /><br />I spun a wish to bathe,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVImQa-GCI/AAAAAAAAHdk/VxImDPROB4U/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 376px; height: 287px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVImQa-GCI/AAAAAAAAHdk/VxImDPROB4U/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374281552416872482" border="0" /></a>so I quickly ducked in to the Riverview Swim Club and used their shower on my way.<br /><br />I actually ended up harvesting the entire Carpenter-Rhodes garden (the family seems to be away, so I figured the produce would just go to waste),<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVIdtyL5mI/AAAAAAAAHdc/cJfpVFwqYhI/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 378px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVIdtyL5mI/AAAAAAAAHdc/cJfpVFwqYhI/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374281405680051810" border="0" /></a>which took quite a bit of time. By 2:30 p.m. when I was done, I was exhausted,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVIdK5J6XI/AAAAAAAAHdU/8sHDRUMwefI/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 352px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVIdK5J6XI/AAAAAAAAHdU/8sHDRUMwefI/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374281396314040690" border="0" /></a>so went home for a mid-afternoon nap to refresh myself.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVIcrjGUKI/AAAAAAAAHdM/sqKItZUeomo/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 281px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVIcrjGUKI/AAAAAAAAHdM/sqKItZUeomo/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374281387900031138" border="0" /></a>I got up after a few hours just to sell my extra produce,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVIcDEKZMI/AAAAAAAAHdE/_kTMZN7cz3Q/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVIcDEKZMI/AAAAAAAAHdE/_kTMZN7cz3Q/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374281377032856770" border="0" /></a>which brought my Household Funds up to $4,176 (so, I still have a ways to go to afford the Ambrosia recipe). I returned to bed at 10:00 p.m. to sleep for the rest of the night.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVIb-RQB0I/AAAAAAAAHc8/0bLlbgiHtnI/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 364px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVIb-RQB0I/AAAAAAAAHc8/0bLlbgiHtnI/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374281375745574722" border="0" /></a>I got up shortly after 4:00 on Tuesday morning and tended my garden,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVH55BpEoI/AAAAAAAAHcs/_0wwM9q57D8/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVH55BpEoI/AAAAAAAAHcs/_0wwM9q57D8/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374280790222377602" border="0" /></a>and upgraded both my garlic and bell pepper plants to Outstanding.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVH5YFx10I/AAAAAAAAHck/Jov1EuErtw0/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 330px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVH5YFx10I/AAAAAAAAHck/Jov1EuErtw0/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374280781381359426" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVH5NEg76I/AAAAAAAAHcc/G5URkgE4uPA/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 180px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVH5NEg76I/AAAAAAAAHcc/G5URkgE4uPA/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374280778423267234" border="0" /></a>Hopefully, I'll have Perfect produce from each of them soon, but some of my plants--such as that watermelon plant--are such laggards. Don't they know I'm trying to get married and have kids before I die??? Maybe if I were a natural green thumb I could explain this to them....<br /><br />I chatted briefly with Jon to raise my Social need,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVH4xFpzQI/AAAAAAAAHcU/2lbMXYCvf1s/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVH4xFpzQI/AAAAAAAAHcU/2lbMXYCvf1s/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374280770911849730" border="0" /></a>then headed off to catch Vampire Fish to sell.<br /><br />I do really love fishing, and in addition to making money it gets me a lot of Lifetime Happiness points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHv5RuKKI/AAAAAAAAHcM/pYMzfnmnLj8/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 399px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHv5RuKKI/AAAAAAAAHcM/pYMzfnmnLj8/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374280618491127970" border="0" /></a>In just a short time, I'd caught quite a few fish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHvvI9X2I/AAAAAAAAHcE/qmYT6u9E60U/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHvvI9X2I/AAAAAAAAHcE/qmYT6u9E60U/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374280615770021730" border="0" /></a>I had a slew of wishes to do little chores at home, so went back to my lot and knocked them off.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHvKObcsI/AAAAAAAAHb8/ZpIjZfTwMLY/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHvKObcsI/AAAAAAAAHb8/ZpIjZfTwMLY/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374280605860852418" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHu-R6wRI/AAAAAAAAHb0/8D2oO2WxUMA/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 378px; height: 278px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHu-R6wRI/AAAAAAAAHb0/8D2oO2WxUMA/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374280602654261522" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHurGgr2I/AAAAAAAAHbs/V-vtTdig7FI/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 230px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHurGgr2I/AAAAAAAAHbs/V-vtTdig7FI/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374280597506142050" border="0" /></a>This got me up to 13,433 Lifetime Happiness points, though I'm not yet sure what reward I'll pick next. Maybe the Fast Learner reward? The last couple levels of the Gardening skill are taking me a long time to reach.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHhHZXlyI/AAAAAAAAHbk/WITB3sz_jDw/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 48px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHhHZXlyI/AAAAAAAAHbk/WITB3sz_jDw/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374280364583261986" border="0" /></a>I went to the library and learned the Baked Angel Food Cake recipe,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVRzSWonlI/AAAAAAAAHeM/QBf07Oz7wsc/s1600-h/ScreenShot001+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVRzSWonlI/AAAAAAAAHeM/QBf07Oz7wsc/s400/ScreenShot001+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374291671878508114" border="0" /></a>then resumed fishing.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHgqtjWUI/AAAAAAAAHbc/gdPRBfN-cfM/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 341px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHgqtjWUI/AAAAAAAAHbc/gdPRBfN-cfM/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374280356883290434" border="0" /></a>I sold my catch at the grocery on the way home, and got my Household Funds up to $6,100.<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHftoG84I/AAAAAAAAHbE/1mY3P_icCqQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 387px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpVHftoG84I/AAAAAAAAHbE/1mY3P_icCqQ/s400/ScreenShot016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374280340485895042" border="0" /></a>I went to bed early evening, determined to arise before dawn and catch enough pricey fish to be able to afford the Ambrosia recipe.<br /><br />************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace completes two more Goals! But the Perfect Garden still eludes her....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-36750980470839709322009-08-24T13:51:00.001-04:002009-08-26T11:27:21.353-04:00Grace Haven: Days 21 - 22While I slept Saturday morning, my Perfect apple tree finally reached maturity.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQnO-w_K_I/AAAAAAAAHZU/j4lnz7UAEAM/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 276px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQnO-w_K_I/AAAAAAAAHZU/j4lnz7UAEAM/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373963393679961074" border="0" /></a>Good thing, too, because I've been dragging around a wish to grow Perfect apples for quite a while now. I guess I'll have a harvest--and get the 2,250 Lifetime Happiness points--pretty soon.<br /><br />I arose a bit before 8:00 a.m.,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQnJ4UFvfI/AAAAAAAAHZM/2_iaWyBYDsY/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQnJ4UFvfI/AAAAAAAAHZM/2_iaWyBYDsY/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373963306048798194" border="0" /></a>and found to my delight that I had a Perfect grape harvest!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQnJt_eFcI/AAAAAAAAHZE/_TTv-MgW7_8/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 352px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQnJt_eFcI/AAAAAAAAHZE/_TTv-MgW7_8/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373963303277958594" border="0" /></a>After tending my garden, I went to the library to read more recipes. Of course I could read at home, but I read so much faster at the library.<br /><br />Over a period of hours, I learned how to make Fruit Parfait,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQnJLpv4wI/AAAAAAAAHY8/w10fHiF5uG8/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQnJLpv4wI/AAAAAAAAHY8/w10fHiF5uG8/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373963294060045058" border="0" /></a>Cheesesteak, and Cobbler.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQnI9PGb9I/AAAAAAAAHY0/8KdMsbkJjzw/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 346px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQnI9PGb9I/AAAAAAAAHY0/8KdMsbkJjzw/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373963290190180306" border="0" /></a>Since those were all the recipes I had in my inventory, I needed to purchase more recipes, but didn't have enough money. I checked my inventory, but there wasn't much to sell, besides a Monarch butterfly that brought me a whopping $8.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQnImO_4HI/AAAAAAAAHYs/6hO9F0VVCuk/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 100px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQnImO_4HI/AAAAAAAAHYs/6hO9F0VVCuk/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373963284015734898" border="0" /></a>I considered selling my lone Piranha, but found that I would get only $32 for it.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmxYUOPpI/AAAAAAAAHYk/BlH1AXyqRTM/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 76px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmxYUOPpI/AAAAAAAAHYk/BlH1AXyqRTM/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373962885142560402" border="0" /></a>Since it's the preferred bait of the pricey Robot Fish, I opted instead to fish near the Science Facility.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmwz526EI/AAAAAAAAHYc/-iiO2KuPJ2Y/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmwz526EI/AAAAAAAAHYc/-iiO2KuPJ2Y/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373962875368302658" border="0" /></a>Using only 1 Piranha, I managed to catch 4 Robot Fish and 1 Vampire Fish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmwHQKqsI/AAAAAAAAHYM/juTHYfnKqGg/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 328px; height: 281px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmwHQKqsI/AAAAAAAAHYM/juTHYfnKqGg/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373962863382276802" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmwj_qJxI/AAAAAAAAHYU/jnVM7KAryR8/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 148px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmwj_qJxI/AAAAAAAAHYU/jnVM7KAryR8/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373962871097665298" border="0" /></a>So, I went to the grocery and sold the 3 Robot Fish and some of my Perfect grape harvest,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmvwwDs3I/AAAAAAAAHYE/ZWrt2iRZ0rI/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmvwwDs3I/AAAAAAAAHYE/ZWrt2iRZ0rI/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373962857342022514" border="0" /></a>which gave me enough money to afford the Eggs Machiavellian recipe,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmhgPF1SI/AAAAAAAAHX8/Il0mtqF1B-U/s1600-h/ScreenShot015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmhgPF1SI/AAAAAAAAHX8/Il0mtqF1B-U/s400/ScreenShot015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373962612390614306" border="0" /></a>which I then took back to the library to learn.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmhWkmVoI/AAAAAAAAHX0/X6JB1zmMIAg/s1600-h/ScreenShot016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 372px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmhWkmVoI/AAAAAAAAHX0/X6JB1zmMIAg/s400/ScreenShot016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373962609796470402" border="0" /></a>I decided to call it a day and, on my way home, stopped again at the grocery and sold the Vampire Fish and the remaining Robot Fish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmhIckglI/AAAAAAAAHXs/KAiqSL3UXyI/s1600-h/ScreenShot017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmhIckglI/AAAAAAAAHXs/KAiqSL3UXyI/s400/ScreenShot017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373962606004699730" border="0" /></a>I also stopped by the community garden to harvest what I could,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmgq2vqnI/AAAAAAAAHXk/FdVeXnBsoIM/s1600-h/ScreenShot018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 376px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmgq2vqnI/AAAAAAAAHXk/FdVeXnBsoIM/s400/ScreenShot018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373962598061419122" border="0" /></a>and went to bed before 9:00 p.m. Gardenia would be so proud!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmgSllimI/AAAAAAAAHXc/NnA3ykcmBug/s1600-h/ScreenShot019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 360px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQmgSllimI/AAAAAAAAHXc/NnA3ykcmBug/s400/ScreenShot019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373962591547001442" border="0" /></a>I got up Sunday morning before 7:00,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQv9vg-S9I/AAAAAAAAHa8/WFVD9NX9uFM/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQv9vg-S9I/AAAAAAAAHa8/WFVD9NX9uFM/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373972993133136850" border="0" /></a>and tended my garden,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQv9RM_LnI/AAAAAAAAHa0/vyYqvl4oCS0/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQv9RM_LnI/AAAAAAAAHa0/vyYqvl4oCS0/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373972984996245106" border="0" /></a>including upgrading my potato vine to Outstanding.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQv815oygI/AAAAAAAAHas/B9hZbMboGnQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQv815oygI/AAAAAAAAHas/B9hZbMboGnQ/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373972977667328514" border="0" /></a>I went to the grocery to sell my own produce, and the produce that I'd gotten from the community garden last night,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQv0Q2rxoI/AAAAAAAAHak/KOC_7ssXxpg/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 373px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQv0Q2rxoI/AAAAAAAAHak/KOC_7ssXxpg/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373972830283875970" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQv0LQ1siI/AAAAAAAAHac/dEhUh7oc1aI/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQv0LQ1siI/AAAAAAAAHac/dEhUh7oc1aI/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373972828782965282" border="0" /></a>for a total of $328.<br /><br />This earned me enough money to afford two new recipes,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvzlhWmxI/AAAAAAAAHaU/AEFKjnt7qVU/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvzlhWmxI/AAAAAAAAHaU/AEFKjnt7qVU/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373972818651683602" border="0" /></a>which I promptly went to the library to learn.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvzQ8FvGI/AAAAAAAAHaM/ErQrlKL38jU/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvzQ8FvGI/AAAAAAAAHaM/ErQrlKL38jU/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373972813126679650" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvzHIIP_I/AAAAAAAAHaE/ULto5v_R6xQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 62px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvzHIIP_I/AAAAAAAAHaE/ULto5v_R6xQ/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373972810492821490" border="0" /></a>I'd resolved to get to bed early again, but stopped at the community garden on my way home to harvest anything else that was now available,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvkBQlRLI/AAAAAAAAHZ8/_U1pkNdW1gQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 212px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvkBQlRLI/AAAAAAAAHZ8/_U1pkNdW1gQ/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373972551219627186" border="0" /></a>and dashed back to the grocery to sell it all,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvj_KrDgI/AAAAAAAAHZ0/cxmZ72PnJlA/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvj_KrDgI/AAAAAAAAHZ0/cxmZ72PnJlA/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373972550657969666" border="0" /></a>for $271.<br /><br />While coming out of the grocery this second time, I ran into someone named Lydia Pearl, who informed me that she lives with Jon. Not sure what exactly that means--Jon has said he has several roommates and hangers-on living with him--but I thought she was just obnoxious--<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvjSCFy0I/AAAAAAAAHZs/A_guc3vcTU8/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 333px; height: 185px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvjSCFy0I/AAAAAAAAHZs/A_guc3vcTU8/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373972538542377794" border="0" /></a>--and I've become a pretty good judge of character, if I do say so myself.<br /><br />I know Jon loves me, and that we're getting married as soon as I finish the GAC Challenge, so I've just decided not even to wonder about Lydia. (Also, I think she was trying to annoy me, so I'm not going to give her the satisfaction.)<br /><br />So, I just cleaned up my lot,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvjHY8zpI/AAAAAAAAHZk/jkhCoIgRzMI/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 255px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvjHY8zpI/AAAAAAAAHZk/jkhCoIgRzMI/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373972535685467794" border="0" /></a>and went to bed at 9:30 p.m.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvioLZMtI/AAAAAAAAHZc/kvygrzxh1OM/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpQvioLZMtI/AAAAAAAAHZc/kvygrzxh1OM/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373972527307109074" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace finally uses the many accumulated Angelfish in her inventory to make some real money, since she still needs to buy a couple of really expensive recipes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-68607193122261640212009-08-23T22:55:00.001-04:002009-08-25T19:57:34.208-04:00Grace Haven: Days 19 - 20Thursday morning I woke up very hungry.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMowqewniI/AAAAAAAAHWM/SAbVk_MO_HQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMowqewniI/AAAAAAAAHWM/SAbVk_MO_HQ/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373683596885270050" border="0" /></a>I ate some produce from my inventory, and sat down to read the paper, which was fairly boring,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMowG49dvI/AAAAAAAAHWE/nGxKubB5sFI/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMowG49dvI/AAAAAAAAHWE/nGxKubB5sFI/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373683587331487474" border="0" /></a>except that I found out that there was a new baby girl in that family whose garlic I always steal.<br /><br />I got a message that there was a 15% off sale at the bookstore,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMov1olZAI/AAAAAAAAHV8/sOSRBz2WzeA/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 350px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMov1olZAI/AAAAAAAAHV8/sOSRBz2WzeA/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373683582699398146" border="0" /></a>but I wasn't sure whether that meant I would get any discount additional to what I get via my Bookstore Bargainer reward.<br /><br />Because the only place I can sit and read is my toilet, I priced a nice armchair,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMovnb5xmI/AAAAAAAAHV0/08-tpNi86Ko/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMovnb5xmI/AAAAAAAAHV0/08-tpNi86Ko/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373683578888111714" border="0" /></a>but decided it was way too expensive for me right now. (I still have so many recipes to buy!)<br /><br />I was committed to mastering Cooking as soon as possible, so went back to the library. I was very surprised to find Jon Lessen there--<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMoljmOpdI/AAAAAAAAHVs/LPX_iKeAz20/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMoljmOpdI/AAAAAAAAHVs/LPX_iKeAz20/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373683406058989010" border="0" /></a>he gave me a quick wave and told me he didn't want to disturb my studying. This guy is so good!<br /><br />I sat down to continue reading "Cooking Vol. 3",<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMolB2a2kI/AAAAAAAAHVk/EhCXOcUIrdA/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMolB2a2kI/AAAAAAAAHVk/EhCXOcUIrdA/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373683397000092226" border="0" /></a>and in several hours got to Cooking Level 9.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMokzYzhcI/AAAAAAAAHVc/s5CnIDBy0s4/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 385px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMokzYzhcI/AAAAAAAAHVc/s5CnIDBy0s4/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373683393117783490" border="0" /></a>I tried to keep going, but I had barely made a dent in my Level 10 study before I had to eat something out of my backpack,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMokqlIYRI/AAAAAAAAHVU/jzeSw19gVdU/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMokqlIYRI/AAAAAAAAHVU/jzeSw19gVdU/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373683390753562898" border="0" /></a>and go home to sleep.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMokG9JlaI/AAAAAAAAHVM/zLQPS214cUs/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMokG9JlaI/AAAAAAAAHVM/zLQPS214cUs/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373683381190628770" border="0" /></a>I got up before 8:00 a.m. on Friday, starved again--this is getting to be an unfortunate habit!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMrHKtVjUI/AAAAAAAAHXU/znZxah2AjVI/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 382px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMrHKtVjUI/AAAAAAAAHXU/znZxah2AjVI/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373686182516723010" border="0" /></a>I harvested my garden, and ate some of the produce,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMrGpIjl2I/AAAAAAAAHXM/fpZkBUzbfrQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 387px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMrGpIjl2I/AAAAAAAAHXM/fpZkBUzbfrQ/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373686173504083810" border="0" /></a>including watering my plants (I'd had a wish to do so, so I'd left the sprinklers off for a day).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMrGdPmS2I/AAAAAAAAHXE/sjQZkIGvRgc/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 190px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMrGdPmS2I/AAAAAAAAHXE/sjQZkIGvRgc/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373686170312395618" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMrGI9ED1I/AAAAAAAAHW8/rWzxFTexSH0/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMrGI9ED1I/AAAAAAAAHW8/rWzxFTexSH0/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373686164865945426" border="0" /></a>I upgraded my Very Nice onion plant to Great,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMq6cqe69I/AAAAAAAAHW0/rJwdOhONN4Q/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 216px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMq6cqe69I/AAAAAAAAHW0/rJwdOhONN4Q/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373685963998292946" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMq6O3DTDI/AAAAAAAAHWs/I9b_tLLQnEw/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 160px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMq6O3DTDI/AAAAAAAAHWs/I9b_tLLQnEw/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373685960292912178" border="0" /></a>and returned to the library. I met a nice older guy named Rocky Guthrie--he's Brave, Frugal, and a Perfectionist.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMq5p5g4AI/AAAAAAAAHWk/C_tMlh2xMCc/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMq5p5g4AI/AAAAAAAAHWk/C_tMlh2xMCc/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373685950371127298" border="0" /></a>I sat down to resume reading "Cooking Volume 3", finished it (finally!) and maxed out my Cooking skill!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMq5dFqf-I/AAAAAAAAHWc/r57hj5zTzuY/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMq5dFqf-I/AAAAAAAAHWc/r57hj5zTzuY/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373685946932428770" border="0" /></a>(I was in the bathroom when this picture was taken....) Now all I have to do is read and learn all those recipes!<br /><br />I went home to sleep before 2:00 a.m.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMq5HuxIbI/AAAAAAAAHWU/e1v-136spww/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpMq5HuxIbI/AAAAAAAAHWU/e1v-136spww/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373685941199249842" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace gets another Perfect harvest, learns a lot of recipes, makes some money from fishing, and runs into an annoying woman who allegedly lives with Grace's fiance.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-89707223288616134882009-08-22T15:05:00.002-04:002009-08-24T19:32:08.556-04:00Grace Haven: Day 18I got up early Wednesday morning, severely depleted in both Hunger and Social.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1qbbQJdI/AAAAAAAAHVE/kVOByyCdHyE/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 363px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1qbbQJdI/AAAAAAAAHVE/kVOByyCdHyE/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373627414671795666" border="0" /></a>Hunger was easy to remedy, but not Social--it was too early to call Jon (I think he'd said he had a concert in the park at noon today, so he was probably asleep). I went to the community garden on the off chance that there might be some fellow night-owl gardeners there.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1lgtit8I/AAAAAAAAHU8/xDvHmmuoIKs/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1lgtit8I/AAAAAAAAHU8/xDvHmmuoIKs/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373627330191341506" border="0" /></a>But, though I got quite a good harvest, there were no other people there. So, I returned home and satisfied a few easy and lucrative wishes:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1lNBuR7I/AAAAAAAAHU0/MT0WjSTB3GQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 377px; height: 285px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1lNBuR7I/AAAAAAAAHU0/MT0WjSTB3GQ/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373627324907276210" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1kr2PBFI/AAAAAAAAHUs/8cAEEqKOoWM/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 377px; height: 286px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1kr2PBFI/AAAAAAAAHUs/8cAEEqKOoWM/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373627316000719954" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1kXJOmxI/AAAAAAAAHUk/mNaRwXfRuio/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 376px; height: 288px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1kXJOmxI/AAAAAAAAHUk/mNaRwXfRuio/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373627310443240210" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1kG8SduI/AAAAAAAAHUc/bU3eP-unod8/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 326px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1kG8SduI/AAAAAAAAHUc/bU3eP-unod8/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373627306093999842" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1Z11ZLOI/AAAAAAAAHUU/Qdbtr1daRWo/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 377px; height: 287px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1Z11ZLOI/AAAAAAAAHUU/Qdbtr1daRWo/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373627129702984930" border="0" /></a>I got myself back up to 3,718 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1ZjGURBI/AAAAAAAAHUM/qXcANOSH_g0/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1ZjGURBI/AAAAAAAAHUM/qXcANOSH_g0/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373627124673692690" border="0" /></a>By that time, it was late enough to call Jon, so we spoke for about an hour before he had to leave for a sound check.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1ZE-poPI/AAAAAAAAHUE/9UVJmYDOCSs/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1ZE-poPI/AAAAAAAAHUE/9UVJmYDOCSs/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373627116588474610" border="0" /></a>My Social need restored, I turned my attention to my garden. I was delighted to discover that both my Outstanding apple tree and my Outstanding tomato plant had produced Perfect produce,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1Y27M_aI/AAAAAAAAHT8/0NqHl712peU/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1Y27M_aI/AAAAAAAAHT8/0NqHl712peU/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373627112815918498" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1YosuZyI/AAAAAAAAHT0/16T44PoT7dA/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 154px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpL1YosuZyI/AAAAAAAAHT0/16T44PoT7dA/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373627108997097250" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxnY_3U_I/AAAAAAAAHTk/Zn1Vee-LGcg/s1600-h/ScreenShot015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 281px; height: 368px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxnY_3U_I/AAAAAAAAHTk/Zn1Vee-LGcg/s400/ScreenShot015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622964433933298" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxnLVJetI/AAAAAAAAHTc/JpR8z2Pfnbw/s1600-h/ScreenShot016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 166px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxnLVJetI/AAAAAAAAHTc/JpR8z2Pfnbw/s400/ScreenShot016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622960765106898" border="0" /></a>so I unceremoniously ripped those 2 plants out and planted their respective Perfect produce in their place. In so doing, I reached Gardening Level 8!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxnump8cI/AAAAAAAAHTs/iUZ8VhRDfyw/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxnump8cI/AAAAAAAAHTs/iUZ8VhRDfyw/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622970233778626" border="0" /></a>With nothing left to do either at home or at the community garden, I headed across the street to an open area to look for rocks and gems.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxm81tJNI/AAAAAAAAHTU/gxOk9kNG248/s1600-h/ScreenShot017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxm81tJNI/AAAAAAAAHTU/gxOk9kNG248/s400/ScreenShot017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622956875130066" border="0" /></a>I did pretty well finding space rocks,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxmYZX17I/AAAAAAAAHTM/EmIpPzl5BDA/s1600-h/ScreenShot018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxmYZX17I/AAAAAAAAHTM/EmIpPzl5BDA/s400/ScreenShot018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622947092617138" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxcz0iaPI/AAAAAAAAHTE/YsLp_Rfv7aM/s1600-h/ScreenShot019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 217px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxcz0iaPI/AAAAAAAAHTE/YsLp_Rfv7aM/s400/ScreenShot019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622782655621362" border="0" /></a>and also caught a Monarch butterfly. (Not very valuable, but it was pretty.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxckkiNhI/AAAAAAAAHS8/EdZWEz0_xHI/s1600-h/ScreenShot020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxckkiNhI/AAAAAAAAHS8/EdZWEz0_xHI/s400/ScreenShot020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622778561967634" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxcPn8l2I/AAAAAAAAHS0/BY9w1wcXH4w/s1600-h/ScreenShot021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 59px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxcPn8l2I/AAAAAAAAHS0/BY9w1wcXH4w/s400/ScreenShot021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622772939134818" border="0" /></a>I walked a bit further to the windmill,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxbx0_kSI/AAAAAAAAHSs/O_-OvNEv4_o/s1600-h/ScreenShot024.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxbx0_kSI/AAAAAAAAHSs/O_-OvNEv4_o/s400/ScreenShot024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622764940792098" border="0" /></a>and found even more space rocks.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxbh-1GeI/AAAAAAAAHSk/SuaR1ZviF_I/s1600-h/ScreenShot025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 246px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxbh-1GeI/AAAAAAAAHSk/SuaR1ZviF_I/s400/ScreenShot025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622760687081954" border="0" /></a>Not one gem, though.<br /><br />I returned home and fertilized all of my less-than-Perfect plants,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxE_gszFI/AAAAAAAAHSc/CfiDfyxfWY4/s1600-h/ScreenShot026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 229px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxE_gszFI/AAAAAAAAHSc/CfiDfyxfWY4/s400/ScreenShot026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622373476781138" border="0" /></a>and went back to the library.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxEUMQnVI/AAAAAAAAHSU/DLawIMoYRnc/s1600-h/ScreenShot028.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxEUMQnVI/AAAAAAAAHSU/DLawIMoYRnc/s400/ScreenShot028.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622361848323410" border="0" /></a>While there, I spun a wish to grow a Flame Fruit bush, which initially confused me,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxEKGCCSI/AAAAAAAAHSM/-hVZKZvU8uQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot029.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 369px; height: 280px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxEKGCCSI/AAAAAAAAHSM/-hVZKZvU8uQ/s400/ScreenShot029.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622359137847586" border="0" /></a>till I remembered that Gardenia had told me that those kinds of wishes generally show up if a gardener has an "Unknown" sprout at home. So, one of mine must be a Flame Fruit--yay!<br /><br />I toughed it out till I reached Cooking Level 8,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxDenAHvI/AAAAAAAAHSE/jwzGsFiivEo/s1600-h/ScreenShot030.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxDenAHvI/AAAAAAAAHSE/jwzGsFiivEo/s400/ScreenShot030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622347464974066" border="0" /></a>then--my needs severely depleted again--I went home to sleep.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxDAH5V0I/AAAAAAAAHR8/ZeY7Bth4ddQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot031.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLxDAH5V0I/AAAAAAAAHR8/ZeY7Bth4ddQ/s400/ScreenShot031.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373622339281442626" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace maxes out her Cooking skill, but it takes nearly all her time. She's still got a few more Goals to achieve, and her Adult birthday is coming up fast.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-70105367805694739112009-08-21T10:26:00.006-04:002009-08-24T19:41:17.968-04:00Grace Haven: Days 16 - 17As my funds were so low (only $17!), I got up early on Monday to fish just off the warehouse.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKryIygqDI/AAAAAAAAHQU/KZIJzOofUJw/s1600-h/ScreenShot021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 346px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKryIygqDI/AAAAAAAAHQU/KZIJzOofUJw/s400/ScreenShot021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373546183247570994" border="0" /></a>That's a good spot for Angelfish (the bait for Deathfish, which fetches very high prices at the grocery) and, before 11:00 a.m., I had caught 10 Angelfish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKrxqFAAgI/AAAAAAAAHQM/6mz2m6CCiqc/s1600-h/ScreenShot022.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKrxqFAAgI/AAAAAAAAHQM/6mz2m6CCiqc/s400/ScreenShot022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373546175003623938" border="0" /></a>I turned my attention to my Lifetime Happiness points. I had 9,693,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKroKQuFVI/AAAAAAAAHQE/fR4ecxqn1sQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot023.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 192px; height: 109px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKroKQuFVI/AAAAAAAAHQE/fR4ecxqn1sQ/s400/ScreenShot023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373546011844023634" border="0" /></a>so I needed just a few more for the Bookshop Bargainer reward, which would give me good discounts on all the recipes I needed to purchase and learn for the Challenge.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKrnreVgfI/AAAAAAAAHP8/v_AXM0tILJ8/s1600-h/ScreenShot028.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 367px; height: 121px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKrnreVgfI/AAAAAAAAHP8/v_AXM0tILJ8/s400/ScreenShot028.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373546003579634162" border="0" /></a>A new wish to garden was easily satisfied, though my tiny home garden didn't yet need any tending.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKrnQAQcdI/AAAAAAAAHP0/L4ZkbO_cw4M/s1600-h/ScreenShot025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKrnQAQcdI/AAAAAAAAHP0/L4ZkbO_cw4M/s400/ScreenShot025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373545996205715922" border="0" /></a>So, I went over to the community garden and harvested everything I could.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKrnMwsk3I/AAAAAAAAHPs/cc9Gx8HBzdg/s1600-h/ScreenShot026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKrnMwsk3I/AAAAAAAAHPs/cc9Gx8HBzdg/s400/ScreenShot026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373545995335144306" border="0" /></a>I was soon over 10,000 points,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKrmgxlecI/AAAAAAAAHPk/rfIjFs2zg-c/s1600-h/ScreenShot027.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 142px; height: 73px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKrmgxlecI/AAAAAAAAHPk/rfIjFs2zg-c/s400/ScreenShot027.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373545983527713218" border="0" /></a>and was able to purchase the Bookshop Bargainer reward. Happily, I headed to the bookstore.<br /><br />I also had a wish to buy a cookbook.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKqtZEu3EI/AAAAAAAAHO8/Hw3aJdGJFNI/s1600-h/ScreenShot020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 285px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKqtZEu3EI/AAAAAAAAHO8/Hw3aJdGJFNI/s400/ScreenShot020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373545002207992898" border="0" /></a>I hoped this wish would be satisfied by buying one of the many recipes I needed, because I didn't see any point in paying for a cookbook that I could read at the library for free!<br /><br />The next recipe on my list was the one for Fruit Parfait, which--even with a big discount--cost $150.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKqtqaKCHI/AAAAAAAAHPE/iqZM_Omk3ds/s1600-h/ScreenShot030.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKqtqaKCHI/AAAAAAAAHPE/iqZM_Omk3ds/s400/ScreenShot030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373545006861256818" border="0" /></a>So, I sold all the produce I had harvested from the community garden, for a total of $351.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKquCi952I/AAAAAAAAHPM/rHhBhv0Rn6E/s1600-h/ScreenShot031.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKquCi952I/AAAAAAAAHPM/rHhBhv0Rn6E/s400/ScreenShot031.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373545013340661602" border="0" /></a>That gave me more than enough money to buy the recipe, but unfortunately buying the recipe didn't satisfy the wish to buy a Cooking Book.<br /><br />Annoyed at the possibility of shelling out money needlessly, and being unwilling to do it unless it was absolutely necessary, I decided to hold off on that purchase and instead went to the library to read more of Cooking: Level 2.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKqub3oz4I/AAAAAAAAHPU/6SZ1OHe_p08/s1600-h/ScreenShot033.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKqub3oz4I/AAAAAAAAHPU/6SZ1OHe_p08/s400/ScreenShot033.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373545020138246018" border="0" /></a>But I was pretty tired, so was able to read for only a short time before I had to go home to bed.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKqu63K1-I/AAAAAAAAHPc/CYnXCnKCeW4/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpKqu63K1-I/AAAAAAAAHPc/CYnXCnKCeW4/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373545028457781218" border="0" /></a>I got up at 2:00 a.m. Tuesday, hungry and a bit smelly,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLO1kK5VrI/AAAAAAAAHQ8/RdzNVLDOgDk/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 234px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLO1kK5VrI/AAAAAAAAHQ8/RdzNVLDOgDk/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373584725044188850" border="0" /></a>but with another easily satisfied wish to garden.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLO1bQptPI/AAAAAAAAHQ0/a0ed63tDEDg/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 285px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLO1bQptPI/AAAAAAAAHQ0/a0ed63tDEDg/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373584722652411122" border="0" /></a>I just love it that that keeps happening!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLO0wBSfyI/AAAAAAAAHQs/-x0KaP1bYVc/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 91px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLO0wBSfyI/AAAAAAAAHQs/-x0KaP1bYVc/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373584711045250850" border="0" /></a>While fertilizing my lime tree, I had a brainstorm on how to satisfy my "Buy a Cooking Book" wish as cheaply as possible.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLVnrm2B2I/AAAAAAAAHR0/i48VS9qWtuc/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLVnrm2B2I/AAAAAAAAHR0/i48VS9qWtuc/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373592183103686498" border="0" /></a>I hurried to the bookstore, bought the least expensive cookbook (one that I had already read for free at the library) for $38,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLO0YW4rSI/AAAAAAAAHQc/d_X_lKZkgyQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLO0YW4rSI/AAAAAAAAHQc/d_X_lKZkgyQ/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373584704693382434" border="0" /></a>collected the 250 Lifetime Happiness points,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLPnMYPliI/AAAAAAAAHRk/BxNoUdbRFKA/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 89px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLPnMYPliI/AAAAAAAAHRk/BxNoUdbRFKA/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373585577651181090" border="0" /></a>and immediately sold the very same book back to the bookstore for $36.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLPmg5NW1I/AAAAAAAAHRc/Wz5rzcLMcgw/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLPmg5NW1I/AAAAAAAAHRc/Wz5rzcLMcgw/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373585565978286930" border="0" /></a>So, for the tiny cash outlay of $2, I satisfied a 250-point wish!<br /><br />In a great mood, I continued on to the library. Almost as soon as I resumed reading "Cooking Volume 2" I finished it and reached Cooking Level 6.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLPmVt6d0I/AAAAAAAAHRU/qMmMlJQES-0/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLPmVt6d0I/AAAAAAAAHRU/qMmMlJQES-0/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373585562978121538" border="0" /></a>I spent the rest of the day at the library reading "Cooking Volume 3", and when I reached Cooking Level 7, decided to call it quits for the day and turn in early.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLPl3feg-I/AAAAAAAAHRM/8kDk0_1trsg/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLPl3feg-I/AAAAAAAAHRM/8kDk0_1trsg/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373585554864505826" border="0" /></a>While, as a Bookworm, I read and learn pretty fast, it seems that it still takes me quite a bit of time to improve at the higher skill levels. I think my next reward should be the "Fast Learner" reward, though arguably that would have been more helpful earlier in the Challenge.<br /><br />Back at my lot, although I was tired, I spun a wish to make the bed,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLPltTbBSI/AAAAAAAAHRE/ErXhgiv1fP8/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 348px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLPltTbBSI/AAAAAAAAHRE/ErXhgiv1fP8/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373585552129590562" border="0" /></a>so I took care of that just to collect the points, then immediately got into bed and went to sleep.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLRgQrDz2I/AAAAAAAAHRs/xoSX9DMpD7o/s1600-h/ScreenShot015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 354px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpLRgQrDz2I/AAAAAAAAHRs/xoSX9DMpD7o/s400/ScreenShot015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373587657568014178" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace makes gains in gardening and cooking, and starts to make some money from collecting.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-6820333136008890882009-08-20T20:36:00.001-04:002009-08-23T23:35:06.944-04:00Grace Haven: Day 15I woke up Sunday with severe Social needs, so called Jon Lessen to talk.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpcwzIE7I/AAAAAAAAHO0/Ijq2mXtQVnQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpcwzIE7I/AAAAAAAAHO0/Ijq2mXtQVnQ/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373332510774662066" border="0" /></a>He asked if he could see me. I told him I had a lot of work to do to complete the GAC Challenge, but that if he wanted to drop by the library later when I was there, that would be okay. Just from hearing his voice, and knowing he wanted to see me, my Social was restored.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpcnuGplI/AAAAAAAAHOs/70YJjxkdszY/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 128px; height: 73px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpcnuGplI/AAAAAAAAHOs/70YJjxkdszY/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373332508337677906" border="0" /></a>I guess I'm not sure why a hot lead guitarist would be interested in me. He must have women chasing him all the time! I mean, I've never heard of Mercy Hellhole (and I don't even know what kind of music they play), but people must like it, because Jon seems to be rich (from what I've heard).<br /><br />I tended my garden, and discovered that my Excellent grapevine had finally produced some Outstanding grapes.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpcYT-QCI/AAAAAAAAHOk/Y5G4FduBTlM/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 346px; height: 235px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpcYT-QCI/AAAAAAAAHOk/Y5G4FduBTlM/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373332504201543714" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpb5KKETI/AAAAAAAAHOc/8VOkELGKUcc/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 270px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpb5KKETI/AAAAAAAAHOc/8VOkELGKUcc/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373332495838875954" border="0" /></a>So, I replaced it with some of the harvest, and found that the Super Green Thumb reward I had finally purchased the previous day came in handy--the new grapevine was of Perfect quality!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpTbqoq7I/AAAAAAAAHOU/GUhmz11Y8_Y/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 323px; height: 238px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpTbqoq7I/AAAAAAAAHOU/GUhmz11Y8_Y/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373332350483082162" border="0" /></a>Remembering both my wish to buy a new stove,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpTE1s0tI/AAAAAAAAHOM/heP7WFJoRFU/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpTE1s0tI/AAAAAAAAHOM/heP7WFJoRFU/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373332344355476178" border="0" /></a>and the fact that I finally had enough money to afford the stove I wanted,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpSpptoCI/AAAAAAAAHOE/44EdhMAEIIk/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 166px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpSpptoCI/AAAAAAAAHOE/44EdhMAEIIk/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373332337057439778" border="0" /></a>I bought it in exactly the color and finish I wanted (of course, it was gray!). It sure looked nice next to my other kitchen stuff,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpSdvoelI/AAAAAAAAHN8/JeC4EvMBBfs/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpSdvoelI/AAAAAAAAHN8/JeC4EvMBBfs/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373332333861042770" border="0" /></a>even though I now had almost no money left.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpSO2U98I/AAAAAAAAHN0/PiTX_eqU3M0/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 91px; height: 22px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHpSO2U98I/AAAAAAAAHN0/PiTX_eqU3M0/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373332329862592450" border="0" /></a>"I could sure use an armchair," I thought, as I was reading the paper on the toilet.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHovp92nPI/AAAAAAAAHNk/W4JwEjxA3fI/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 394px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHovp92nPI/AAAAAAAAHNk/W4JwEjxA3fI/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373331735846493426" border="0" /></a>As I'd told Jon, I went to the library to continue to study Cooking.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHovPgbZ2I/AAAAAAAAHNc/23nJFVtTIaA/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 389px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHovPgbZ2I/AAAAAAAAHNc/23nJFVtTIaA/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373331728743753570" border="0" /></a>Jon came by, as promised,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHou_7FIOI/AAAAAAAAHNU/yYTplBUtgrk/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 386px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHou_7FIOI/AAAAAAAAHNU/yYTplBUtgrk/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373331724560572642" border="0" /></a>and a couple of kisses from him really improved my mood. (I think we scandalized some of the other library visitors though!)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHoupaqTuI/AAAAAAAAHNM/Ufj8LBiVB1s/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHoupaqTuI/AAAAAAAAHNM/Ufj8LBiVB1s/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373331718519017186" border="0" /></a>I asked Jon if he could ever be serious about me. He responded that he was serious now. I told him I wanted to get married and have children (as soon as I was done with the Challenge, that is).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHoh5veYhI/AAAAAAAAHNE/RBNHlxaouAw/s1600-h/ScreenShot015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 394px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHoh5veYhI/AAAAAAAAHNE/RBNHlxaouAw/s400/ScreenShot015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373331499562983954" border="0" /></a>He told me he wanted the same thing. I asked why a cute, nice, rich guy would settle for someone like me--I'm not glamorous, or successful, and I've got $17 to my name. He told me that looks aren't everything. And then he laughed, "Grace," he explained, "I've met lots of great-looking women with ugly personalities. You are beautiful on the inside. And on the outside," he added, "if you'd only give yourself a chance."<br /><br />He continued. "And I'm not as young as you think I am, and I'm not getting any younger. I want a wife and a family before I get too old."<br /><br />Suddenly, impetuously, I asked him to marry me.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHohswYBuI/AAAAAAAAHM8/t7V_QiZdoRs/s1600-h/ScreenShot016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 355px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHohswYBuI/AAAAAAAAHM8/t7V_QiZdoRs/s400/ScreenShot016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373331496077100770" border="0" /></a>And he said yes!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHohOTPcMI/AAAAAAAAHM0/Y_6h20xI-ZQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 128px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHohOTPcMI/AAAAAAAAHM0/Y_6h20xI-ZQ/s400/ScreenShot017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373331487901839554" border="0" /></a>I made it clear to him, though, that I couldn't get married until I finished the Challenge. He said he understood, but added, "Then I hope you'll be okay with marrying a really old guy!"<br /><br />Jon left, and I resumed my study, and got to Cooking Level 5.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHog9xtQII/AAAAAAAAHMs/y5iaWSu96Jg/s1600-h/ScreenShot018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 239px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHog9xtQII/AAAAAAAAHMs/y5iaWSu96Jg/s400/ScreenShot018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373331483466219650" border="0" /></a>I read for a few more hours, but had to go home to sleep before I reached Level 6.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHogke_fcI/AAAAAAAAHMk/NA8Z5VlMyTE/s1600-h/ScreenShot019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 369px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpHogke_fcI/AAAAAAAAHMk/NA8Z5VlMyTE/s400/ScreenShot019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373331476676836802" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace comes up with a clever idea for increasing her Lifetime Happiness points, and buys another reward.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-76078489077138784512009-08-19T10:11:00.002-04:002009-08-22T11:54:55.312-04:00Grace Haven: Day 14While I slept Saturday, I spun a wish to weed my plants,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAJBrdbK_I/AAAAAAAAHJ8/HTZJOukZ3jM/s1600-h/ScreenShot031.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAJBrdbK_I/AAAAAAAAHJ8/HTZJOukZ3jM/s400/ScreenShot031.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372804279903661042" border="0" /></a>which I addressed immediately upon arising.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAJA9cf6xI/AAAAAAAAHJs/a7PqHO801rY/s1600-h/ScreenShot034.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAJA9cf6xI/AAAAAAAAHJs/a7PqHO801rY/s400/ScreenShot034.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372804267551746834" border="0" /></a>In so doing, I got my Lifetime Happiness points up to nearly 18,000. I was sure I would soon be able to purchase the Super Green Thumb reward.<br /><br />Another wish--to buy a stove worth at least $450--was not so easy to satisfy,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAJBMdoz3I/AAAAAAAAHJ0/mRURVLeTFic/s1600-h/ScreenShot033.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 392px; height: 283px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAJBMdoz3I/AAAAAAAAHJ0/mRURVLeTFic/s400/ScreenShot033.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372804271583055730" border="0" /></a>since I had my heart set on a super-deluxe model that cost several times that much. So, the stove will just have to wait!<br /><br />I harvested my garden,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAJASBzwiI/AAAAAAAAHJk/ejfkRZiUvgw/s1600-h/ScreenShot035.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAJASBzwiI/AAAAAAAAHJk/ejfkRZiUvgw/s400/ScreenShot035.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372804255897076258" border="0" /></a>and discovered that my Excellent apple tree had finally yielded some Outstanding apples.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAI_7ttYVI/AAAAAAAAHJc/E6aTrwteF_Q/s1600-h/ScreenShot036.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 399px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAI_7ttYVI/AAAAAAAAHJc/E6aTrwteF_Q/s400/ScreenShot036.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372804249907192146" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAKLSzCI2I/AAAAAAAAHKk/GowryajyoK4/s1600-h/ScreenShot037.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 345px; height: 262px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAKLSzCI2I/AAAAAAAAHKk/GowryajyoK4/s400/ScreenShot037.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372805544593728354" border="0" /></a>So, I ripped out the tree and planted one of the apples in its place.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAKLDzs-3I/AAAAAAAAHKc/RR0-_-dOZy8/s1600-h/ScreenShot038.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAKLDzs-3I/AAAAAAAAHKc/RR0-_-dOZy8/s400/ScreenShot038.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372805540570004338" border="0" /></a>I even fertilized it with some Nice garlic, hoping to speed up the tree's progress.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAKKnNr8qI/AAAAAAAAHKU/kAl53KyDKwg/s1600-h/ScreenShot039.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 363px; height: 301px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAKKnNr8qI/AAAAAAAAHKU/kAl53KyDKwg/s400/ScreenShot039.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372805532894360226" border="0" /></a>That evening, because I had never used up 2 of the three cheeses or 2 of the 3 eggs that had come with my refrigerator, I went fishing near the warehouse. I knew this was a place where I could catch Alley Catfish and Rainbow Trout, the fish for which cheese and eggs were the proper bait, respectively.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAKKLtXUtI/AAAAAAAAHKM/NeNlgeRcI5w/s1600-h/ScreenShot040.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAKKLtXUtI/AAAAAAAAHKM/NeNlgeRcI5w/s400/ScreenShot040.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372805525511033554" border="0" /></a>Before 11:30 p.m., I had used up that bait and caught quite a few fish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAKJh9RW7I/AAAAAAAAHKE/eDkiRFOC1rk/s1600-h/ScreenShot041.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 333px; height: 299px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAKJh9RW7I/AAAAAAAAHKE/eDkiRFOC1rk/s400/ScreenShot041.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372805514303462322" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAMSNGlb9I/AAAAAAAAHKs/GiAbZM_W01Y/s1600-h/ScreenShot042.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAMSNGlb9I/AAAAAAAAHKs/GiAbZM_W01Y/s400/ScreenShot042.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372807862347460562" border="0" /></a>I had a wish to catch an Angelfish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAOGxYD_wI/AAAAAAAAHLU/7PKyIuT_wW8/s1600-h/ScreenShot042.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAOGxYD_wI/AAAAAAAAHLU/7PKyIuT_wW8/s400/ScreenShot042.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372809864949268226" border="0" /></a>and another to master the Fishing skill,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAOGtvKRsI/AAAAAAAAHLM/etORCTGVzhw/s1600-h/ScreenShot043.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 382px; height: 306px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAOGtvKRsI/AAAAAAAAHLM/etORCTGVzhw/s400/ScreenShot043.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372809863972406978" border="0" /></a>so I headed up the riverbank to a good Angelfish spot.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAOGGx4m1I/AAAAAAAAHLE/uIBlSm5Chho/s1600-h/ScreenShot044.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAOGGx4m1I/AAAAAAAAHLE/uIBlSm5Chho/s400/ScreenShot044.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372809853514849106" border="0" /></a>I quickly caught an Angelfish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAOFiyHPHI/AAAAAAAAHK8/SCUE8trtmcY/s1600-h/ScreenShot047.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAOFiyHPHI/AAAAAAAAHK8/SCUE8trtmcY/s400/ScreenShot047.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372809843852131442" border="0" /></a>got a new wish to catch a Deathfish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAOFc_HEXI/AAAAAAAAHK0/E0PxNgYrO94/s1600-h/ScreenShot048.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 389px; height: 278px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpAOFc_HEXI/AAAAAAAAHK0/E0PxNgYrO94/s400/ScreenShot048.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372809842296033650" border="0" /></a>so went to fish with Angelfish bait just north of the graveyard. In no time, I had caught a couple of Deathfish, which put my point total just over 20,000.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpARODRBlpI/AAAAAAAAHL8/u7UIFem362U/s1600-h/ScreenShot052.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpARODRBlpI/AAAAAAAAHL8/u7UIFem362U/s400/ScreenShot052.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372813288545556114" border="0" /></a>This allowed me to purchase the Super Green Thumb reward.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpARNpTmjjI/AAAAAAAAHL0/aqMIQ3IoT5U/s1600-h/ScreenShot053.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 381px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpARNpTmjjI/AAAAAAAAHL0/aqMIQ3IoT5U/s400/ScreenShot053.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372813281577045554" border="0" /></a>This put my point total back to only 46 points,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpARNBnhJeI/AAAAAAAAHLs/Qz_3MJBYnM0/s1600-h/ScreenShot054.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 119px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpARNBnhJeI/AAAAAAAAHLs/Qz_3MJBYnM0/s400/ScreenShot054.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372813270923159010" border="0" /></a>but after fishing a little bit longer I reached Level 10 of Fishing and so mastered the skill.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpARMwzlcvI/AAAAAAAAHLk/QIWAaJ5BeW4/s1600-h/ScreenShot056.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpARMwzlcvI/AAAAAAAAHLk/QIWAaJ5BeW4/s400/ScreenShot056.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372813266410369778" border="0" /></a>I received 5,000 points for satisfying that wish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpARMW1s4qI/AAAAAAAAHLc/CsvCWB7clY0/s1600-h/ScreenShot057.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 44px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpARMW1s4qI/AAAAAAAAHLc/CsvCWB7clY0/s400/ScreenShot057.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372813259439923874" border="0" /></a>On my way home to sleep I sold all my Deathfish, plus some extra produce,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpASNyFI7EI/AAAAAAAAHMc/GmK5TuuDApo/s1600-h/ScreenShot058.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpASNyFI7EI/AAAAAAAAHMc/GmK5TuuDApo/s400/ScreenShot058.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372814383443930178" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpASNSi_R0I/AAAAAAAAHMU/gF-zNjYwceA/s1600-h/ScreenShot059.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpASNSi_R0I/AAAAAAAAHMU/gF-zNjYwceA/s400/ScreenShot059.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372814374979192642" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpASMwwa5mI/AAAAAAAAHMM/VRGFEQLHSWk/s1600-h/ScreenShot060.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpASMwwa5mI/AAAAAAAAHMM/VRGFEQLHSWk/s400/ScreenShot060.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372814365908723298" border="0" /></a>and so went to sleep with the tidy sum of $2,982.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpASMUc2Y7I/AAAAAAAAHME/l8zriOebauU/s1600-h/ScreenShot061.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 362px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SpASMUc2Y7I/AAAAAAAAHME/l8zriOebauU/s400/ScreenShot061.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372814358310446002" border="0" /></a>I resolved to buy my new stove as soon as I got up.<br /><br />************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace applies herself to increasing her Gardening skill, saves up for another Lifetime Reward ... and pops the question.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-51933319950508253202009-08-18T10:00:00.000-04:002009-08-22T11:51:20.709-04:00Grace Haven: Day 13I awoke Friday afternoon with an easily satisfied wish to garden,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowJdznUHnI/AAAAAAAAHGU/I6_3pRruy7I/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowJdznUHnI/AAAAAAAAHGU/I6_3pRruy7I/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371678863222120050" border="0" /></a>so quickly earned another 350 Lifetime Happiness points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowJdQYg0NI/AAAAAAAAHGM/iSeK-B7FnSI/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 325px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowJdQYg0NI/AAAAAAAAHGM/iSeK-B7FnSI/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371678853764796626" border="0" /></a>I also had a wish to bathe,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowJcxyO4rI/AAAAAAAAHGE/JU934ozlL58/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 280px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowJcxyO4rI/AAAAAAAAHGE/JU934ozlL58/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371678845551174322" border="0" /></a>which I satisfied by taking a shower.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowJctU9DXI/AAAAAAAAHF8/8d4-LevC-vs/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowJctU9DXI/AAAAAAAAHF8/8d4-LevC-vs/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371678844354628978" border="0" /></a>My Excellent apple tree still hadn't produced any Outstanding apples,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowJcZP6TrI/AAAAAAAAHF0/Egq2neG6uBg/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 392px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowJcZP6TrI/AAAAAAAAHF0/Egq2neG6uBg/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371678838964768434" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowKMPhKXsI/AAAAAAAAHG8/xf6VrR1A9hY/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 262px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowKMPhKXsI/AAAAAAAAHG8/xf6VrR1A9hY/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371679660986490562" border="0" /></a>which wasn't helping me with my wish to grow a perfect apple tree, which wish was worth a whopping 2,250 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowK7ra2jHI/AAAAAAAAHHU/42Df_pytOoE/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 371px; height: 281px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowK7ra2jHI/AAAAAAAAHHU/42Df_pytOoE/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371680475930070130" border="0" /></a>So, I decided to fertilize the tree with Angelfish, hoping to speed things up.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowKLsSJHVI/AAAAAAAAHG0/s1pMs0zL3Jw/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 358px; height: 130px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowKLsSJHVI/AAAAAAAAHG0/s1pMs0zL3Jw/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371679651528252754" border="0" /></a>My Excellent tomato plant had produced Outstanding tomatoes (yay!), so I ripped it out and planted one of the harvested tomatoes in its place.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowKLQt6mNI/AAAAAAAAHGs/CQy9BZklSA0/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 226px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowKLQt6mNI/AAAAAAAAHGs/CQy9BZklSA0/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371679644128549074" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowKLGxXlHI/AAAAAAAAHGk/RTipe7bvi2M/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowKLGxXlHI/AAAAAAAAHGk/RTipe7bvi2M/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371679641458676850" border="0" /></a>I had a wish to catch a 50 kilogram fish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowK8nVIVeI/AAAAAAAAHHk/zKIt5CWzRRM/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 265px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowK8nVIVeI/AAAAAAAAHHk/zKIt5CWzRRM/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371680492012197346" border="0" /></a>and a glance at my Fishing skill journal showed me that a Robot Fish was my likely quarry.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowKK4zsMPI/AAAAAAAAHGc/1Nq6KYDj6nA/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 110px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowKK4zsMPI/AAAAAAAAHGc/1Nq6KYDj6nA/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371679637710319858" border="0" /></a>So, I headed to the Science Facility (which I think is the only place in Riverview that one can catch a Robot Fish),<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowK6733XfI/AAAAAAAAHHE/iPHw68MRwQY/s1600-h/ScreenShot015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 346px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowK6733XfI/AAAAAAAAHHE/iPHw68MRwQY/s400/ScreenShot015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371680463166856690" border="0" /></a>and used Piranha as bait.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowK7X5pb3I/AAAAAAAAHHM/Euz6L942LpA/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 325px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowK7X5pb3I/AAAAAAAAHHM/Euz6L942LpA/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371680470690525042" border="0" /></a>In no time at all I had caught a big one--<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowMSACQZVI/AAAAAAAAHIM/xe-ATvD3G0A/s1600-h/ScreenShot016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 365px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowMSACQZVI/AAAAAAAAHIM/xe-ATvD3G0A/s400/ScreenShot016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371681958932800850" border="0" /></a>whose weight far exceeded the wish's requirement--over 596 kilograms!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowMRoM-miI/AAAAAAAAHIE/lC-HTUzibZo/s1600-h/ScreenShot017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 244px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowMRoM-miI/AAAAAAAAHIE/lC-HTUzibZo/s400/ScreenShot017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371681952535321122" border="0" /></a>I had also been carrying around a wish to catch 25 Red Herring,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowK72xKJNI/AAAAAAAAHHc/beApKpS6Lic/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 370px; height: 264px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowK72xKJNI/AAAAAAAAHHc/beApKpS6Lic/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371680478976419026" border="0" /></a>which I finally satisfied tonight.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowMRZUMwfI/AAAAAAAAHH8/i8TZkVqE7Wk/s1600-h/ScreenShot018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 399px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowMRZUMwfI/AAAAAAAAHH8/i8TZkVqE7Wk/s400/ScreenShot018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371681948539077106" border="0" /></a>Conveniently, I spun a wish to catch a 100 kilogram fish--piece of cake!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowMQ0GQhzI/AAAAAAAAHH0/oksq2cRn33I/s1600-h/ScreenShot020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 379px; height: 273px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowMQ0GQhzI/AAAAAAAAHH0/oksq2cRn33I/s400/ScreenShot020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371681938548492082" border="0" /></a>I quickly caught another Robot Fish, and this one weighed more than 693 kilograms.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowMQiRNUBI/AAAAAAAAHHs/yFoHhgsvqJg/s1600-h/ScreenShot021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 116px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowMQiRNUBI/AAAAAAAAHHs/yFoHhgsvqJg/s400/ScreenShot021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371681933762580498" border="0" /></a>I had nearly 17,000 points--I'll have that Super Green Thumb reward in no time!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowNJRBgt9I/AAAAAAAAHI0/cYmDx4coSRU/s1600-h/ScreenShot022.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 79px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowNJRBgt9I/AAAAAAAAHI0/cYmDx4coSRU/s400/ScreenShot022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371682908385884114" border="0" /></a>I decided that was enough fishing for the night, because I really had to focus on learning the Cooking skill.<br /><br />So, I went to the library and learned how to make Cookies,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowNIuRRVsI/AAAAAAAAHIk/4Z3AlpJBhQs/s1600-h/ScreenShot024.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 321px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowNIuRRVsI/AAAAAAAAHIk/4Z3AlpJBhQs/s400/ScreenShot024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371682899056744130" border="0" /></a>and then read Cooking: Volume 2,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowNIb0pooI/AAAAAAAAHIc/WUOtcCjFuE4/s1600-h/ScreenShot025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 338px; height: 314px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowNIb0pooI/AAAAAAAAHIc/WUOtcCjFuE4/s400/ScreenShot025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371682894104863362" border="0" /></a> and got my Cooking skill up to Level 4.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowNICWG5TI/AAAAAAAAHIU/m-gyXdm55O8/s1600-h/ScreenShot026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 186px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowNICWG5TI/AAAAAAAAHIU/m-gyXdm55O8/s400/ScreenShot026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371682887265871154" border="0" /></a>I was tired, so headed for home, stopping briefly at the grocery to sell my two Robot Fish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowOEyyPB5I/AAAAAAAAHJU/TzDAmPhcZRc/s1600-h/ScreenShot027.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowOEyyPB5I/AAAAAAAAHJU/TzDAmPhcZRc/s400/ScreenShot027.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371683931060897682" border="0" /></a>I had a wish to buy a stove worth at least $450,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowOELdZ5UI/AAAAAAAAHJM/WdKewCsG3K4/s1600-h/ScreenShot028.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 370px; height: 299px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowOELdZ5UI/AAAAAAAAHJM/WdKewCsG3K4/s400/ScreenShot028.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371683920504546626" border="0" /></a>but I want a much nicer stove than that--the one I want costs at least 3 times that amount. Even if I sold all the produce and fish in my inventory I still wouldn't have enough money,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowODwHWEvI/AAAAAAAAHJE/8QbcIwJmoDA/s1600-h/ScreenShot029.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 164px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowODwHWEvI/AAAAAAAAHJE/8QbcIwJmoDA/s400/ScreenShot029.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371683913164264178" border="0" /></a>so I tabled that wish for a while.<br /><br />I was home in bed before 9 a.m.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowODpjTGhI/AAAAAAAAHI8/lb3UT7PyEN8/s1600-h/ScreenShot030.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SowODpjTGhI/AAAAAAAAHI8/lb3UT7PyEN8/s400/ScreenShot030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371683911402461714" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace completes two more Goals!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-71497303348492922112009-08-17T23:59:00.003-04:002009-08-18T23:47:20.877-04:00Grace Haven: Day 12Thursday morning while I slept, my potato vine produced Perfect potatoes, so I got a lot more Lifetime Happiness points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SocyXYe-YhI/AAAAAAAAHBs/l8Q1m9pipgo/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 348px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SocyXYe-YhI/AAAAAAAAHBs/l8Q1m9pipgo/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370316457953354258" border="0" /></a>I got up just after 5:00 p.m., intending to be lazy and to garden in my nightgown.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SocyW4vl7HI/AAAAAAAAHBk/tOw761E9ZiE/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SocyW4vl7HI/AAAAAAAAHBk/tOw761E9ZiE/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370316449433119858" border="0" /></a>Imagine my surprise when Jon Lessen walked by!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SocyWnpLusI/AAAAAAAAHBc/qZXNkqN88Ik/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SocyWnpLusI/AAAAAAAAHBc/qZXNkqN88Ik/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370316444842834626" border="0" /></a>I hastily got dressed and ran over to give him a hug,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SocyWAPlKFI/AAAAAAAAHBU/uqNG7w6q2hc/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SocyWAPlKFI/AAAAAAAAHBU/uqNG7w6q2hc/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370316434266466386" border="0" /></a>and--I confessed my attraction to him.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SocyV_-APVI/AAAAAAAAHBM/FhRWX3KaH2M/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SocyV_-APVI/AAAAAAAAHBM/FhRWX3KaH2M/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370316434192743762" border="0" /></a> Fortunately, he was pleased, and went from "Friend" to "Romantic Interest"!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc13mss87I/AAAAAAAAHCU/JZrGOJadA4M/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 109px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc13mss87I/AAAAAAAAHCU/JZrGOJadA4M/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370320310059725746" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc13aqsmsI/AAAAAAAAHCM/Y_BUjIWpkIg/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 69px; height: 112px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc13aqsmsI/AAAAAAAAHCM/Y_BUjIWpkIg/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370320306830088898" border="0" /></a>I took the plunge and kissed him<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc12iMSs9I/AAAAAAAAHB8/jpyDLaSuDBo/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 66px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc12iMSs9I/AAAAAAAAHB8/jpyDLaSuDBo/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370320291670176722" border="0" /></a>(and not <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">just </span>because I spun a wish to do so).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc12xzZByI/AAAAAAAAHCE/bSJSkJMBUjg/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 251px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc12xzZByI/AAAAAAAAHCE/bSJSkJMBUjg/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370320295860700962" border="0" /></a>It was heavenly!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc12apR1oI/AAAAAAAAHB0/tPt2oM5ZO90/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 170px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc12apR1oI/AAAAAAAAHB0/tPt2oM5ZO90/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370320289644271234" border="0" /></a>Jon's a Great Kisser!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc3i3wesnI/AAAAAAAAHC8/SjXVwJhVA1Q/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 59px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc3i3wesnI/AAAAAAAAHC8/SjXVwJhVA1Q/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370322152884974194" border="0" /></a>As dusk fell, we held hands and carried on right there on the sidewalk.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc3iaimR1I/AAAAAAAAHC0/7dChVAZWmCQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc3iaimR1I/AAAAAAAAHC0/7dChVAZWmCQ/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370322145042122578" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc3iERkr2I/AAAAAAAAHCs/skHGtwek_Kw/s1600-h/ScreenShot015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 391px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc3iERkr2I/AAAAAAAAHCs/skHGtwek_Kw/s400/ScreenShot015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370322139065134946" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc3hgFmAwI/AAAAAAAAHCk/Wh0V4ZipMPM/s1600-h/ScreenShot016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 219px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc3hgFmAwI/AAAAAAAAHCk/Wh0V4ZipMPM/s400/ScreenShot016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370322129351213826" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc40UQyp7I/AAAAAAAAHDk/axFFRhHxfNE/s1600-h/ScreenShot018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 329px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc40UQyp7I/AAAAAAAAHDk/axFFRhHxfNE/s400/ScreenShot018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370323552106096562" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc40CfovDI/AAAAAAAAHDc/yIoLAKS1DqY/s1600-h/ScreenShot019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc40CfovDI/AAAAAAAAHDc/yIoLAKS1DqY/s400/ScreenShot019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370323547336522802" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc4z352yZI/AAAAAAAAHDU/TPbHGd57GCE/s1600-h/ScreenShot020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc4z352yZI/AAAAAAAAHDU/TPbHGd57GCE/s400/ScreenShot020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370323544493705618" border="0" /></a>I asked Jon to go steady.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc4zeSzh4I/AAAAAAAAHDM/NBcxH7_WG7Y/s1600-h/ScreenShot021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc4zeSzh4I/AAAAAAAAHDM/NBcxH7_WG7Y/s400/ScreenShot021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370323537619027842" border="0" /></a>He accepted, and went from "Romantic Interest" to "Boyfriend"!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc4zHl42zI/AAAAAAAAHDE/XZfeoFPyOwU/s1600-h/ScreenShot022.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 110px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc4zHl42zI/AAAAAAAAHDE/XZfeoFPyOwU/s400/ScreenShot022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370323531525053234" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc3hd6yDWI/AAAAAAAAHCc/Il7L3IhcoiU/s1600-h/ScreenShot017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 388px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soc3hd6yDWI/AAAAAAAAHCc/Il7L3IhcoiU/s400/ScreenShot017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370322128768994658" border="0" /></a>We finally parted just after 8:00 p.m.,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soq5PqzcyFI/AAAAAAAAHEM/BrmoFu2sd-Y/s1600-h/ScreenShot023.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soq5PqzcyFI/AAAAAAAAHEM/BrmoFu2sd-Y/s400/ScreenShot023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371309184431999058" border="0" /></a>and I was delighted to find that I had 3 new happy moodlets:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soq5PK8BD0I/AAAAAAAAHEE/SPG72LqZGwk/s1600-h/ScreenShot026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 297px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soq5PK8BD0I/AAAAAAAAHEE/SPG72LqZGwk/s400/ScreenShot026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371309175877996354" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soq5O5Xj8kI/AAAAAAAAHD8/uQIfJue4A2c/s1600-h/ScreenShot027.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 302px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soq5O5Xj8kI/AAAAAAAAHD8/uQIfJue4A2c/s400/ScreenShot027.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371309171161690690" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soq5OhmzSuI/AAAAAAAAHD0/caK36izTsN0/s1600-h/ScreenShot028.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 287px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soq5OhmzSuI/AAAAAAAAHD0/caK36izTsN0/s400/ScreenShot028.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371309164783160034" border="0" /></a>I happily set about tending my garden, and reached Gardening Level 7.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SorQuwL_BXI/AAAAAAAAHE0/p3wVfB5GqXk/s1600-h/ScreenShot001+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 348px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SorQuwL_BXI/AAAAAAAAHE0/p3wVfB5GqXk/s400/ScreenShot001+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371335007220467058" border="0" /></a>I replaced the Very Nice potato vine I had just harvested with a Great potato,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SorQup6-3UI/AAAAAAAAHEs/xmOGGVlR1eM/s1600-h/ScreenShot003+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SorQup6-3UI/AAAAAAAAHEs/xmOGGVlR1eM/s400/ScreenShot003+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371335005538540866" border="0" /></a>and since now, as a Level 7 gardener, I could plant rare seeds, I planted the 2 Unknown Rare seeds I had found days ago and had been carrying around since then.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soq5OT5ox3I/AAAAAAAAHDs/UBV3cPCPebs/s1600-h/ScreenShot002+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 360px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Soq5OT5ox3I/AAAAAAAAHDs/UBV3cPCPebs/s400/ScreenShot002+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371309161104066418" border="0" /></a>I took a shower at home,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SorQuEwvdWI/AAAAAAAAHEk/IAJCkisoXCs/s1600-h/ScreenShot004+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SorQuEwvdWI/AAAAAAAAHEk/IAJCkisoXCs/s400/ScreenShot004+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371334995563476322" border="0" /></a>and used the toilet at the community garden,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SorQt4W8NHI/AAAAAAAAHEc/VF4TQGEtuok/s1600-h/ScreenShot005+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 336px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SorQt4W8NHI/AAAAAAAAHEc/VF4TQGEtuok/s400/ScreenShot005+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371334992234034290" border="0" /></a>and, because I wasn't tired at all (I was still thinking about Jon!), I went back to the Carpenter-Rhodes house to get a few more heads of garlic to use as bait.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SorQthCxnHI/AAAAAAAAHEU/RSokNa_NhmQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot006+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SorQthCxnHI/AAAAAAAAHEU/RSokNa_NhmQ/s400/ScreenShot006+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371334985975438450" border="0" /></a>Once again, I considered knocking on their door to explain my presence, but I realized it was really too late.<br /><br />I then headed over to one of my favorite fishing spots, just north of the southernmost bridge,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoroE82y8uI/AAAAAAAAHFc/cZBVQYaiBgs/s1600-h/ScreenShot007+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoroE82y8uI/AAAAAAAAHFc/cZBVQYaiBgs/s400/ScreenShot007+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371360677345817314" border="0" /></a>to work on my wish to catch 10 Vampire Fish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoroEDHDtfI/AAAAAAAAHFM/jnI_aHYCgKE/s1600-h/ScreenShot009+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 129px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoroEDHDtfI/AAAAAAAAHFM/jnI_aHYCgKE/s400/ScreenShot009+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371360661844768242" border="0" /></a>A quick glance at my Fishing skill journal showed that I had already caught 7,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoroET4Gg6I/AAAAAAAAHFU/MBhE7mvJ4k8/s1600-h/ScreenShot008+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 166px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoroET4Gg6I/AAAAAAAAHFU/MBhE7mvJ4k8/s400/ScreenShot008+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371360666345440162" border="0" /></a>so I didn't think it would take me very long to catch 3 more, but it actually took me till after 7:00 a.m.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoroD2Z_ZZI/AAAAAAAAHFE/yb9yYwxuW7I/s1600-h/ScreenShot010+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoroD2Z_ZZI/AAAAAAAAHFE/yb9yYwxuW7I/s400/ScreenShot010+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371360658434516370" border="0" /></a>But, I got the 400 Lifetime Happiness points, and I also reached Fishing Level 9, so it was a profitable way to spend the early morning.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoroDayvHmI/AAAAAAAAHE8/65Z-TEnv9Dc/s1600-h/ScreenShot013+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 139px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoroDayvHmI/AAAAAAAAHE8/65Z-TEnv9Dc/s400/ScreenShot013+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371360651022114402" border="0" /></a>At this point, I was getting tired and hungry, so ate a tomato out of my backpack and headed home, stopping briefly at the grocery to sell much of my catch.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SorqAHknGMI/AAAAAAAAHFs/FBSgHtS5qGg/s1600-h/ScreenShot016+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SorqAHknGMI/AAAAAAAAHFs/FBSgHtS5qGg/s400/ScreenShot016+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371362793346242754" border="0" /></a>I decided to hang on to the Piranha, because I can get much more money by using it for bait for Robotfish, and the Angelfish, because I can get much more money by using that for bait for Deathfish. I've really got a system here!<br /><br />I finally got to bed a bit after 11:00 a.m.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sorp_0bAiCI/AAAAAAAAHFk/leFDSSsnydw/s1600-h/ScreenShot020+%282%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sorp_0bAiCI/AAAAAAAAHFk/leFDSSsnydw/s400/ScreenShot020+%282%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371362788205692962" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace gets even better at wish management, and improves her cooking.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-69997678868801091962009-08-16T11:00:00.009-04:002009-08-16T17:06:52.755-04:00Grace Haven: Day 11When I arose on Wednesday (afternoon!), I was happy to find that I finally had a grape harvest.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLi0Lep4jI/AAAAAAAAG-c/pytaUN0pikE/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLi0Lep4jI/AAAAAAAAG-c/pytaUN0pikE/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369103091841491506" border="0" /></a>And, because some of the day's harvest was of better quality than the original plants, I disposed of the old grapevine and the old lettuce plant, and planted the superior produce in their place.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLizl3Ur8I/AAAAAAAAG-U/Q4Lnjvgd5xw/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 365px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLizl3Ur8I/AAAAAAAAG-U/Q4Lnjvgd5xw/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369103081744412610" border="0" /></a>I also fertilized both plants.<br /><br />I cleaned myself up at the gym, and met a guy named Al Fogel.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLizKRonnI/AAAAAAAAG-M/WE4pPhKfHkI/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLizKRonnI/AAAAAAAAG-M/WE4pPhKfHkI/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369103074338578034" border="0" /></a>He was nice--friendly and frugal, and he Loves the Outdoors.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLiyjzZo7I/AAAAAAAAG-E/2iJEa6BiqGc/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLiyjzZo7I/AAAAAAAAG-E/2iJEa6BiqGc/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369103064011219890" border="0" /></a>He's also single,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLiyE81ABI/AAAAAAAAG98/8oL1d4PJF7w/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 62px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLiyE81ABI/AAAAAAAAG98/8oL1d4PJF7w/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369103055729262610" border="0" /></a>has no partner,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLk3dISzAI/AAAAAAAAG_E/u_xUD0Gllv4/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 183px; height: 132px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLk3dISzAI/AAAAAAAAG_E/u_xUD0Gllv4/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369105347142405122" border="0" /></a>but unfortunately he's unemployed.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLk3Pwnx9I/AAAAAAAAG-8/X6PeJwCLNGs/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 62px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLk3Pwnx9I/AAAAAAAAG-8/X6PeJwCLNGs/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369105343553456082" border="0" /></a>Of course, he could have lots of potential, but he's no Jon Lessen.<br /><br />I then set out to catch the final fish I needed for the Amateur Ichthyologist sub-challenge. I started exploring the territory on the other side of the fish hatchery, looking for anything to use for bait that I didn't already have.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLk2qIj_oI/AAAAAAAAG-0/ikJcMm6XUqw/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLk2qIj_oI/AAAAAAAAG-0/ikJcMm6XUqw/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369105333453323906" border="0" /></a>I came upon a house (the mailbox said "Carpenter-Rhodes", but no one was home). I peered over the fence and spied several garlic plants.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLk2IqujhI/AAAAAAAAG-s/8KW3pTuEcEw/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 155px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLk2IqujhI/AAAAAAAAG-s/8KW3pTuEcEw/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369105324469816850" border="0" /></a>I harvested just one plant.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLk1uveaUI/AAAAAAAAG-k/nQdpmpWeO8A/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 363px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLk1uveaUI/AAAAAAAAG-k/nQdpmpWeO8A/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369105317510408514" border="0" /></a>I considered leaving a note for the house's owner, but what was I supposed to say: "Hi, you don't know me, but I stole garlic from your garden"? I resolved instead to meet the owners later and pay them back in some way.<br /><br />I'd heard about a fishing spot out that way that I hadn't tried--Lost Willow Park,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLpTW4V_HI/AAAAAAAAG_s/Yi4fYPaheKk/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLpTW4V_HI/AAAAAAAAG_s/Yi4fYPaheKk/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369110224547740786" border="0" /></a>which promised an "Unknown Fish".<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLpSyoKwgI/AAAAAAAAG_k/civIBE9Biek/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLpSyoKwgI/AAAAAAAAG_k/civIBE9Biek/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369110214816219650" border="0" /></a>Shortly after 1:00 a.m., I had caught a Vampire Fish, and completed the Amateur Ichthyologist sub-challenge!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLpRK5b70I/AAAAAAAAG_c/ER3tpr2X7MM/s1600-h/ScreenShot015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 104px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLpRK5b70I/AAAAAAAAG_c/ER3tpr2X7MM/s400/ScreenShot015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369110186971361090" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLpQuqfdjI/AAAAAAAAG_U/dpSb1feuLb0/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLpQuqfdjI/AAAAAAAAG_U/dpSb1feuLb0/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369110179392484914" border="0" /></a>Since that was my goal for the night, I left immediately and went to the grocery to sell all the extra produce and fish I had been carrying around.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLpP-cEdqI/AAAAAAAAG_M/lO8xgT6YwmI/s1600-h/ScreenShot016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLpP-cEdqI/AAAAAAAAG_M/lO8xgT6YwmI/s400/ScreenShot016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369110166447093410" border="0" /></a>I received $1,720!<br /><br />I also sold a Mood-Lite candle for $39,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLqcFBr-MI/AAAAAAAAHAU/V0cAVHXIvdQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 117px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLqcFBr-MI/AAAAAAAAHAU/V0cAVHXIvdQ/s400/ScreenShot017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369111473885542594" border="0" /></a>and the Mysterious Mr. Gnome for $1,007!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLqbi9tgrI/AAAAAAAAHAM/8iYaWRRrEbI/s1600-h/ScreenShot018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 322px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLqbi9tgrI/AAAAAAAAHAM/8iYaWRRrEbI/s400/ScreenShot018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369111464742060722" border="0" /></a>This brought my Household Funds up to $3,351,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLqbAja_LI/AAAAAAAAHAE/Yc8fLHxZ63c/s1600-h/ScreenShot019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 58px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLqbAja_LI/AAAAAAAAHAE/Yc8fLHxZ63c/s400/ScreenShot019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369111455504989362" border="0" /></a>and I realized I finally could afford a bathtub, and maybe a toilet, too.<br /><br />I'd spun a wish to buy something worth at least $250,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLrWzsg2kI/AAAAAAAAHA8/F_D2xpvUdFE/s1600-h/ScreenShot022.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 371px; height: 270px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLrWzsg2kI/AAAAAAAAHA8/F_D2xpvUdFE/s400/ScreenShot022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369112482845612610" border="0" /></a>so I called the plumbing supply place from my cellphone and found out the prices for the top-quality tub and toilet I wanted.<br /><br />It turned out that I couldn't afford both,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLrWTgx6nI/AAAAAAAAHA0/FhdBvip9qik/s1600-h/ScreenShot023.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 32px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLrWTgx6nI/AAAAAAAAHA0/FhdBvip9qik/s400/ScreenShot023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369112474206464626" border="0" /></a>so I opted for the tub and figured I could make do with the community garden toilet for another few days.<br /><br />While my new tub was being delivered, I busied myself harvesting the community garden. (I still have a few levels to go to get to Gardening Level 10.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLqarNigvI/AAAAAAAAG_8/7rz1svzhHC4/s1600-h/ScreenShot020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLqarNigvI/AAAAAAAAG_8/7rz1svzhHC4/s400/ScreenShot020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369111449776063218" border="0" /></a>When I suddenly received 500 Lifetime Happiness points, bringing my total back up to 11,320,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLrVzytreI/AAAAAAAAHAs/3aBWkDatDzE/s1600-h/ScreenShot024.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 114px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLrVzytreI/AAAAAAAAHAs/3aBWkDatDzE/s400/ScreenShot024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369112465691749858" border="0" /></a>I realized that the new tub must have been delivered and installed!<br /><br />I congratulated myself for getting by without any plumbing equipment of my own for 12 days.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLqaSC6_dI/AAAAAAAAG_0/fdFQp6Kgd7g/s1600-h/ScreenShot021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 184px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLqaSC6_dI/AAAAAAAAG_0/fdFQp6Kgd7g/s400/ScreenShot021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369111443020643794" border="0" /></a>I used the toilet at the community garden, and excitedly ran home.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLrVpVITwI/AAAAAAAAHAk/S-2CMXL9erU/s1600-h/ScreenShot025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLrVpVITwI/AAAAAAAAHAk/S-2CMXL9erU/s400/ScreenShot025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369112462883311362" border="0" /></a>Though I was very tired, I took time out for the luxury of a nice bath,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLrVKyoomI/AAAAAAAAHAc/hJMckXtQNG4/s1600-h/ScreenShot026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 365px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLrVKyoomI/AAAAAAAAHAc/hJMckXtQNG4/s400/ScreenShot026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369112454685565538" border="0" /></a>before going to sleep just after 11:00 a.m.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLtTwCAtPI/AAAAAAAAHBE/wx-hxfaXGPU/s1600-h/ScreenShot027.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoLtTwCAtPI/AAAAAAAAHBE/wx-hxfaXGPU/s400/ScreenShot027.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369114629345686770" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when things heat up between Grace and Jon Lessen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-24318032694252400762009-08-15T11:00:00.002-04:002009-08-15T17:20:00.604-04:00Grace Haven: Day 10I got out of bed after only a couple hours' sleep on Tuesday morning, so that I could tend my garden at the most advantageous time to do so (according to Gardenia).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGwQVPMc9I/AAAAAAAAG7s/GMIIqUcFH94/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 382px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGwQVPMc9I/AAAAAAAAG7s/GMIIqUcFH94/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368766025427612626" border="0" /></a>I then went back to bed to sleep for another few hours, then got up and went to the community garden to harvest all the plants there.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGwQITh-JI/AAAAAAAAG7k/92fHoGsPkkg/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGwQITh-JI/AAAAAAAAG7k/92fHoGsPkkg/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368766021956139154" border="0" /></a>By the time I was done, I really stunk, and spun a wish to Bathe,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGwPwBhODI/AAAAAAAAG7c/Gd2FKVDxyrg/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGwPwBhODI/AAAAAAAAG7c/Gd2FKVDxyrg/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368766015438141490" border="0" /></a>which fortunately was satisfied by my taking a shower at the gym.<br /><br />After my shower, I went upstairs to see if there were any more guys to meet. The only one I didn't yet know, though, was Trigger Broke, who's just a teenager.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGwP6-5W7I/AAAAAAAAG7U/rvC_YvqOhxs/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 357px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGwP6-5W7I/AAAAAAAAG7U/rvC_YvqOhxs/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368766018379930546" border="0" /></a>At about 9:00 p.m., I returned to the southernmost bridge to fish, since I'd had such luck there the night before. My luck continued--I caught a lobster,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGwPgPZFgI/AAAAAAAAG7M/JxNkusI4tm4/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGwPgPZFgI/AAAAAAAAG7M/JxNkusI4tm4/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368766011201361410" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGxlzmVveI/AAAAAAAAG8U/Ni_A-MonR8E/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 333px; height: 96px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGxlzmVveI/AAAAAAAAG8U/Ni_A-MonR8E/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368767493866634722" border="0" /></a>and reached Fishing Level 7 before midnight.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGxl7OIXwI/AAAAAAAAG8M/5OYyxIXSus4/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 381px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGxl7OIXwI/AAAAAAAAG8M/5OYyxIXSus4/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368767495912578818" border="0" /></a>I wanted to catch a Robot Fish--which can be caught only at the Science Facility--and I was astonished to discover that my casting could reach all the way across the river to that spot!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGxlfsQY4I/AAAAAAAAG8E/z9wnxSDIb8I/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGxlfsQY4I/AAAAAAAAG8E/z9wnxSDIb8I/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368767488522740610" border="0" /></a>I was able to catch my first Robot Fish and, wanting to continue my lucky streak, I crossed the river and moved upstream to the bank near the graveyard, and there caught my first Deathfish!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGxlD9xwSI/AAAAAAAAG78/DDOdW07Uy5M/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGxlD9xwSI/AAAAAAAAG78/DDOdW07Uy5M/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368767481080037666" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGxlFVxAVI/AAAAAAAAG70/ZMPRKlQo5Ew/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 108px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGxlFVxAVI/AAAAAAAAG70/ZMPRKlQo5Ew/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368767481449087314" border="0" /></a>With a glance at my Fishing skill journal, I realized I needed to catch just one more new type of fish to complete the Amateur Ichthyologist sub-challenge that was required for the GAC Challenge.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGzebzPxUI/AAAAAAAAG80/sFvrOENy1AY/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 379px; height: 104px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGzebzPxUI/AAAAAAAAG80/sFvrOENy1AY/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368769566242489666" border="0" /></a>I tried several fishing spots, and found one that promised an "Unknown Fish",<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGzePhfIkI/AAAAAAAAG8s/KX-96IoulJc/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 380px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGzePhfIkI/AAAAAAAAG8s/KX-96IoulJc/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368769562946773570" border="0" /></a>but, though I tried every kind of bait I had in my inventory and caught a lot of fish (and other items),<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoG0f-ijWqI/AAAAAAAAG9M/HrK8SqcSJ00/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 335px; height: 294px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoG0f-ijWqI/AAAAAAAAG9M/HrK8SqcSJ00/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368770692259207842" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGzd5Z4PzI/AAAAAAAAG8k/pjakhYsr44Q/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGzd5Z4PzI/AAAAAAAAG8k/pjakhYsr44Q/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368769557009284914" border="0" /></a>by 8:30 a.m. I still hadn't caught the last fish I needed.<br /><br />I suddenly realized that it was probably because I didn't have the right bait.<br /><br />"Hmmm, what grows around here that I don't have?" I fell asleep wondering, and resolved to go out exploring in new places when I got up.<br /><br />************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace goes exploring, and guesses correctly which new type of bait she needs to catch her last type of fish. She ends up trespassing and stealing another household's harvest!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-74297842917162855202009-08-14T11:00:00.000-04:002009-08-14T11:00:07.466-04:00Grace Haven: Day 9Monday morning while I slept, my tomato plant again produced fruit,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGnSzSk6CI/AAAAAAAAG40/tUy17X1NNto/s1600-h/ScreenShot024.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 339px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGnSzSk6CI/AAAAAAAAG40/tUy17X1NNto/s400/ScreenShot024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368756172249950242" border="0" /></a>so I fulfilled my "Grow Ingredients for Ratatouille" wish. My Lifetime Happiness points were back up to 7,003.<br /><br />I harvested my garden,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGnSgXp21I/AAAAAAAAG4s/i-uNve_RcUc/s1600-h/ScreenShot025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGnSgXp21I/AAAAAAAAG4s/i-uNve_RcUc/s400/ScreenShot025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368756167170972498" border="0" /></a>and, since I'd left the sprinkler off for nearly a whole day, my plants were dry enough that I could water them by hand,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGnSfxU4hI/AAAAAAAAG4k/_j-E-6-C0hI/s1600-h/ScreenShot026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGnSfxU4hI/AAAAAAAAG4k/_j-E-6-C0hI/s400/ScreenShot026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368756167010214418" border="0" /></a>which fulfilled another wish and got me a few hundred more points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGnSDO_UfI/AAAAAAAAG4c/n4HMGvdIhPY/s1600-h/ScreenShot027.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 384px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGnSDO_UfI/AAAAAAAAG4c/n4HMGvdIhPY/s400/ScreenShot027.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368756159350002162" border="0" /></a>I saw a guy walk past, so I hurriedly got dressed and went across the street to introduce myself.<br /><br />That was a waste of time--and worse! His name was Tom Shallow, and he was Neurotic (in addition to a Perfectionist and Neat).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGnR11YsoI/AAAAAAAAG4U/CCjPeeUn-p4/s1600-h/ScreenShot028.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 385px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGnR11YsoI/AAAAAAAAG4U/CCjPeeUn-p4/s400/ScreenShot028.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368756155752952450" border="0" /></a>A severe-looking woman joined us; it turned out she was Tom's wife, June Shallow.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGoa6IPKTI/AAAAAAAAG5c/m8EYR7uIDE0/s1600-h/ScreenShot029.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGoa6IPKTI/AAAAAAAAG5c/m8EYR7uIDE0/s400/ScreenShot029.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368757411036211506" border="0" /></a>She seemed a little suspicious that I was talking to her husband, so I quickly ended the conversation as politely as I could and crossed the street back to my lot.<br /><br />Shortly after that, Tom kicked over my trashcan! I asked him why, and he said that I'd gotten him in trouble with his wife, who was the jealous type.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGoa93abOI/AAAAAAAAG5U/J3JkpF7VfMg/s1600-h/ScreenShot030.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 363px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGoa93abOI/AAAAAAAAG5U/J3JkpF7VfMg/s400/ScreenShot030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368757412039388386" border="0" /></a>So, I promised him I would never speak to him again. (As if I'd been planning to, anyway!)<br /><br />I tried to shake off my thoughts about that unpleasant encounter, and got a wish to buy a new recipe (even though I still had one recipe in my inventory that I hadn't yet learned).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGoalCMCTI/AAAAAAAAG5M/lgJgtyjlS48/s1600-h/ScreenShot031.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 346px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGoalCMCTI/AAAAAAAAG5M/lgJgtyjlS48/s400/ScreenShot031.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368757405373696306" border="0" /></a>Good--that will keep my mind off of the Shallows.<br /><br />I went to the bookstore,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGoaQqd1LI/AAAAAAAAG5E/CR1_Iw7X8mw/s1600-h/ScreenShot032.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGoaQqd1LI/AAAAAAAAG5E/CR1_Iw7X8mw/s400/ScreenShot032.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368757399905490098" border="0" /></a>and bought the recipe for Cookies.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGoaA1UZqI/AAAAAAAAG48/TH9Vm735Fd8/s1600-h/ScreenShot033.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 358px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGoaA1UZqI/AAAAAAAAG48/TH9Vm735Fd8/s400/ScreenShot033.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368757395656042146" border="0" /></a>It cost $100. Boy, do I wish the Book Club worked for recipes!<br /><br />After leaving the bookstore, I walked around town a bit, just to see what else was there. As I was walking by the Sunflower Spa, my cellphone rang. It was Jon Lessen! I was so happy that he called me that, while I was on the phone with him, I thought I saw him standing only a few feet away on the sidewalk.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGpuS3P_uI/AAAAAAAAG6E/fbamgUZyZNU/s1600-h/ScreenShot034.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGpuS3P_uI/AAAAAAAAG6E/fbamgUZyZNU/s400/ScreenShot034.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368758843604991714" border="0" /></a>I must have been hallucinating....<br /><br />I went to the library, and introduced myself to Luke McDermott (who I think was there with his little boy). He was interesting enough--he Loves the Outdoors and is a Daredevil, but also Can't Stand Art (and I've heard that those people don't enjoy nicely decorated lots, and so can be difficult to live with).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGpuHRoSJI/AAAAAAAAG58/5t9vzI6Au3I/s1600-h/ScreenShot035.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGpuHRoSJI/AAAAAAAAG58/5t9vzI6Au3I/s400/ScreenShot035.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368758840494409874" border="0" /></a>He was in a relationship with someone named Ginny, anyway, so he wasn't a possibility.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGpt4jFyWI/AAAAAAAAG50/gKvORg6LMc0/s1600-h/ScreenShot037.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 386px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGpt4jFyWI/AAAAAAAAG50/gKvORg6LMc0/s400/ScreenShot037.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368758836541114722" border="0" /></a>I sat down and learned the Fish and Chips recipe,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGptx6IFSI/AAAAAAAAG5s/16CtuRVw0tk/s1600-h/ScreenShot038.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 334px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGptx6IFSI/AAAAAAAAG5s/16CtuRVw0tk/s400/ScreenShot038.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368758834758685986" border="0" /></a>and got 350 points for that.<br /><br />Since I still had a fair amount of energy, I went down to the southernmost bridge and fished.<br /><br />I had a very good night--I got to Fishing Level 6,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGr48m67-I/AAAAAAAAG6s/o-VmHSg8t6E/s1600-h/ScreenShot040.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 385px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGr48m67-I/AAAAAAAAG6s/o-VmHSg8t6E/s400/ScreenShot040.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368761225632739298" border="0" /></a>and caught several new fish--a Piranha (ugliest thing I've ever seen--uglier even than the blowfish),<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGr4jvbkqI/AAAAAAAAG6k/p7hBEGMae4c/s1600-h/ScreenShot039.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 85px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGr4jvbkqI/AAAAAAAAG6k/p7hBEGMae4c/s400/ScreenShot039.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368761218957546146" border="0" /></a><br />a Black Goldfish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGr4ftj9cI/AAAAAAAAG6c/WH3NV64DQw4/s1600-h/ScreenShot041.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 323px; height: 105px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGr4ftj9cI/AAAAAAAAG6c/WH3NV64DQw4/s400/ScreenShot041.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368761217875965378" border="0" /></a>a Shark (which was pretty scary looking).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGr4Mrw_oI/AAAAAAAAG6U/E3iB6m1MQIw/s1600-h/ScreenShot043.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 276px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGr4Mrw_oI/AAAAAAAAG6U/E3iB6m1MQIw/s400/ScreenShot043.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368761212768157314" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGr3xZ4OuI/AAAAAAAAG6M/OogLYo460FU/s1600-h/ScreenShot044.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 325px; height: 95px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGr3xZ4OuI/AAAAAAAAG6M/OogLYo460FU/s400/ScreenShot044.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368761205445376738" border="0" /></a>and an Angelfish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGsdK204ZI/AAAAAAAAG68/5vfsxFRRSe8/s1600-h/ScreenShot045.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 332px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGsdK204ZI/AAAAAAAAG68/5vfsxFRRSe8/s400/ScreenShot045.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368761847932838290" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGsdjOAWTI/AAAAAAAAG7E/UJ9u9C1_jCw/s1600-h/ScreenShot046.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 325px; height: 108px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGsdjOAWTI/AAAAAAAAG7E/UJ9u9C1_jCw/s400/ScreenShot046.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368761854472509746" border="0" /></a>I didn't get to bed till 5:30 a.m.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGsc-yCQgI/AAAAAAAAG60/JiAI3bhTam0/s1600-h/ScreenShot047.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoGsc-yCQgI/AAAAAAAAG60/JiAI3bhTam0/s400/ScreenShot047.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368761844691517954" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace tries (and fails) to get on an earlier schedule, she meets yet another ineligible guy at the gym, and almost finishes the Amateur Ichthyologist sub-challenge--but one "Unknown Fish" still eludes her. (Calling Captain Ahab, calling Captain Ahab....)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-36981778946037879082009-08-13T10:00:00.000-04:002009-08-13T10:37:23.651-04:00Grace Haven: Day 8I awoke at noon on Sunday. On one hand, Gardenia has advised me to try to stick to an early morning schedule for purposes of fishing and gardening, but she has also been quite forgiving as she realizes that I need to be out and about during normal day-to-evening hours in order to find a good prospect for a husband.<br /><br />I received a confusing wish--to water my plants. The wish claimed that my plants were thirsty, which was demonstrably not true, since my sprinkler runs 24 hours a day.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDOGpyTyjI/AAAAAAAAG3M/2IiWPhncIK8/s1600-h/ScreenShot015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDOGpyTyjI/AAAAAAAAG3M/2IiWPhncIK8/s400/ScreenShot015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368517369517034034" border="0" /></a>I shrugged, turned off my sprinkler, and went to the gym to shower and use the toilet.<br /><br />When I was done, I climbed the stairs to see if there were any eligible guys. I introduced myself to Billy Caspian,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDOGWVE6mI/AAAAAAAAG3E/qvoO9071ULA/s1600-h/ScreenShot016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDOGWVE6mI/AAAAAAAAG3E/qvoO9071ULA/s400/ScreenShot016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368517364294150754" border="0" /></a>who was Artistic, a Slob, and Inappropriate.<br /><br />I think not!<br /><br />I returned home to harvest my garden,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDOGFpvf7I/AAAAAAAAG28/DA86UdhPm0k/s1600-h/ScreenShot017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDOGFpvf7I/AAAAAAAAG28/DA86UdhPm0k/s400/ScreenShot017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368517359817424818" border="0" /></a>and upgraded and fertilized a couple of my plants.<br /><br />Given all the unacceptable men I've met in the last few days, I thought I should give Jon Lessen a call, just to keep myself on his radar. (As a lead guitarist, he probably meets loads of women.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDOFyzUpfI/AAAAAAAAG20/lEYaeXTa4Ss/s1600-h/ScreenShot018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDOFyzUpfI/AAAAAAAAG20/lEYaeXTa4Ss/s400/ScreenShot018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368517354757334514" border="0" /></a>We chatted for a while, and I thought he would probably accept if I invited him over, but a girl who doesn't own a toilet has no business inviting a guy over to her lot!<br /><br />I told him that I had to go to the library to read to work on my Challenge requirements, but that it would be nice to see him, if only for a short while. I asked if he'd like to meet me there,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDOFvHEbnI/AAAAAAAAG2s/vX7zlXEW7bY/s1600-h/ScreenShot019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDOFvHEbnI/AAAAAAAAG2s/vX7zlXEW7bY/s400/ScreenShot019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368517353766415986" border="0" /></a>and he said yes.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDP93lZf9I/AAAAAAAAG30/DbIWBgf4fUw/s1600-h/ScreenShot020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDP93lZf9I/AAAAAAAAG30/DbIWBgf4fUw/s400/ScreenShot020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368519417625411538" border="0" /></a>When I reached the library, I was halfway up the front stairs before I realized Jon was behind me. (Why is everyone I know always hungry???)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDP9lmoHdI/AAAAAAAAG3s/ec8onLZGwQA/s1600-h/ScreenShot021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDP9lmoHdI/AAAAAAAAG3s/ec8onLZGwQA/s400/ScreenShot021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368519412798725586" border="0" /></a>We spoke for a while and, though I learned nothing new about him (I'm just crazy to find out his fifth trait!), I summoned my nerve to give him a friendly hug goodbye. It was kind of thrilling, for me at least....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDP9ZcRLWI/AAAAAAAAG3k/8hPDIswsrIY/s1600-h/ScreenShot022.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDP9ZcRLWI/AAAAAAAAG3k/8hPDIswsrIY/s400/ScreenShot022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368519409534053730" border="0" /></a>I went inside and tried to concentrate on my reading, and reached Cooking Level 2,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDP9KvqL8I/AAAAAAAAG3c/SqMWjmHj2YE/s1600-h/ScreenShot023.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 395px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDP9KvqL8I/AAAAAAAAG3c/SqMWjmHj2YE/s400/ScreenShot023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368519405588852674" border="0" /></a>and then Cooking Level 3 a little after 3:00 Monday morning.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDP9HudYeI/AAAAAAAAG3U/FuEUN1uCMok/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDP9HudYeI/AAAAAAAAG3U/FuEUN1uCMok/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368519404778512866" border="0" /></a>I wandered into the computer room (where I'd previously met that neurotic nutjob, Hunter Cottoneye), and, since I'd spun a wish to buy another recipe,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDREOUTBZI/AAAAAAAAG4M/NOgTYQ9dWqs/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDREOUTBZI/AAAAAAAAG4M/NOgTYQ9dWqs/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368520626318542226" border="0" /></a>I investigated whether joining the Book Club would allow me to buy recipes. Sadly, the answer was "no"--the Book Club sends its subscribers only random books, and not items of the subscriber's choosing.<br /><br />So, I went to the grocery, and sold my extra produce and fish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDRDM16l7I/AAAAAAAAG4E/-EvKDjHO2ag/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDRDM16l7I/AAAAAAAAG4E/-EvKDjHO2ag/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368520608742807474" border="0" /></a>then went to the bookstore and bought another recipe, for Fish and Chips.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDRC5cRy2I/AAAAAAAAG38/nZevRbdm1sg/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoDRC5cRy2I/AAAAAAAAG38/nZevRbdm1sg/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368520603535002466" border="0" /></a>Once again, I went to bed very late.<br /><br />************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace satisfies lots of wishes, meets more weird people, and closes in on the Amateur Ichthyologist sub-challenge.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-18955587839978740522009-08-12T11:00:00.001-04:002009-08-12T11:15:49.018-04:00Grace Haven: Day 7I'm embarrassed to say that I slept till late morning on Saturday. When I (finally) got up, I went to the gym to use the facilities. There were a fair number of guys there, so I steeled my nerve and went to say hello to each of them in turn and have a brief chat (of course, if one of them turned out okay, I would spend more time with him). Unfortunately, none of them were promising.<br /><br />The first two were still in high school--both Bob Newbie,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snzfujss9NI/AAAAAAAAG00/5YQipcknrT8/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 332px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snzfujss9NI/AAAAAAAAG00/5YQipcknrT8/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367410846868501714" border="0" /></a>and Daniel Wang.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoCiNaDhseI/AAAAAAAAG2M/ikavkdhK9MA/s1600-h/ScreenShot029.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 272px; height: 339px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoCiNaDhseI/AAAAAAAAG2M/ikavkdhK9MA/s400/ScreenShot029.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368469107041743330" border="0" /></a>The third one, Rainer Knowling, was a Mooch.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnzhELg7BDI/AAAAAAAAG1c/9AOkQgj9HC4/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 181px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnzhELg7BDI/AAAAAAAAG1c/9AOkQgj9HC4/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367412317845390386" border="0" /></a>The fourth one, Larry Cooper, was both Mean Spirited AND evil.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnzhD_PQ4JI/AAAAAAAAG1U/bLDkyiOXIHI/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnzhD_PQ4JI/AAAAAAAAG1U/bLDkyiOXIHI/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367412314550100114" border="0" /></a>The fifth one, Trevor Magee, was a Loner.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnzhDsub7AI/AAAAAAAAG1M/d8hXvQu0bEU/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnzhDsub7AI/AAAAAAAAG1M/d8hXvQu0bEU/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367412309580573698" border="0" /></a>I gave up for the day on finding a potential husband and returned home. I harvested my Nice grapevine (grapes take so long from planting to harvest!), then uprooted it and replaced it by planting Very Nice grapes (from today's harvest).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnzhDrBL07I/AAAAAAAAG1E/6PsHR6kwxtc/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 207px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnzhDrBL07I/AAAAAAAAG1E/6PsHR6kwxtc/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367412309122339762" border="0" /></a>I went to harvest the community garden, intending (at some point) to sell the produce; I'm trying to save up for first a shower and then a toilet of my own. (I figure I can still get by with the community garden's toilet for a while longer, since it's just on the next block.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnzhDVJVSGI/AAAAAAAAG08/knfuxEo3Z4c/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnzhDVJVSGI/AAAAAAAAG08/knfuxEo3Z4c/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367412303250933858" border="0" /></a>There was a lot of produce to harvest, so that took me till the evening.<br /><br />I spun a wish to catch a blowfish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snz7luqcSoI/AAAAAAAAG10/U9wgGpI6EgY/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 365px; height: 285px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snz7luqcSoI/AAAAAAAAG10/U9wgGpI6EgY/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367441481518566018" border="0" /></a>so figured I'd head back to the hatchery. Before I left I used the toilet at the community garden and, on my way out, I passed behind Norman Joy (the "Never Nude" guy). He was talking to someone, perhaps his wife, and I didn't say hello because I didn't want to get involved in another weird conversation.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snz7mA359NI/AAAAAAAAG2E/CfFu1aVwmIY/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snz7mA359NI/AAAAAAAAG2E/CfFu1aVwmIY/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367441486406874322" border="0" /></a>At the hatchery, I caught a blowfish and so satisfied that wish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snz7l-mXLBI/AAAAAAAAG18/fgnFm9W_EfM/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snz7l-mXLBI/AAAAAAAAG18/fgnFm9W_EfM/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367441485796420626" border="0" /></a>and the 350 Lifetime Happiness points I got as a result brought my total back up to 6,273.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snz7leky0EI/AAAAAAAAG1s/e7xLSf1Ic8s/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snz7leky0EI/AAAAAAAAG1s/e7xLSf1Ic8s/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367441477199908930" border="0" /></a>(I guess I'll get the required Super Green Thumb reward next, since I'm trying to finish the GAC Challenge as soon as possible so that I can start a family. Of course, I still have to find a husband....)<br /><br />I also caught a salmon--another new type of fish for me--<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snz7lK3AJ7I/AAAAAAAAG1k/82X4y3ASHjg/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 382px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snz7lK3AJ7I/AAAAAAAAG1k/82X4y3ASHjg/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367441471907571634" border="0" /></a>and (I think) a tuna.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoCkAvOYI7I/AAAAAAAAG2k/yVcm56OCSU4/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 295px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoCkAvOYI7I/AAAAAAAAG2k/yVcm56OCSU4/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368471088409355186" border="0" /></a>I spun a wish to Catch 5 Blowfish, worth 300 points,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoCkAcoTUXI/AAAAAAAAG2c/4zaWoxG1z5M/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 347px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoCkAcoTUXI/AAAAAAAAG2c/4zaWoxG1z5M/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368471083417817458" border="0" /></a>and worked on it for quite a while, but wasn't able to fulfill it.<br /><br />I finally went home and to bed about 6 a.m. Sunday, exhausted.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoCkAOKLQmI/AAAAAAAAG2U/zWuploNSRu8/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 355px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SoCkAOKLQmI/AAAAAAAAG2U/zWuploNSRu8/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368471079533363810" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace gets a confusing wish, meets a new guy, calls back one guy she's already met (and <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">sort of </span>asks him out), gains another couple of skill levels, and investigates whether the Book Club will do her any good with the GAC Challenge.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-32817493907091865982009-08-11T11:00:00.001-04:002009-08-11T11:00:00.370-04:00Grace Haven: Day 6Friday morning while I slept, my lettuce plant became harvestable, which gained me 1,000 Lifetime Happiness points! This got my total back up to 4,088 points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnvS_CD04I/AAAAAAAAGw8/GOv4vD9pjbE/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 343px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnvS_CD04I/AAAAAAAAGw8/GOv4vD9pjbE/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366583540425413506" border="0" /></a>Upon arising, I went to the gym to shower and use the toilet. You never know whom you're going to meet, or when, so you should always be well groomed!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnvSjWk7FI/AAAAAAAAGw0/L8qXkJlmTXg/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnvSjWk7FI/AAAAAAAAGw0/L8qXkJlmTXg/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366583532995275858" border="0" /></a>But, there were no single men there, so I returned to my lot to harvest my garden.<br /><br />I replaced my Nice lettuce plant with a Great specimen that I had just harvested,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnvSZyvW2I/AAAAAAAAGws/NWYlVtgqjuw/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnvSZyvW2I/AAAAAAAAGws/NWYlVtgqjuw/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366583530429045602" border="0" /></a>and spun a wish to grow the ingredients for ratatouille.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnvSGGNxHI/AAAAAAAAGwk/f-fqhUAComI/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnvSGGNxHI/AAAAAAAAGwk/f-fqhUAComI/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366583525142021234" border="0" /></a>Although I'd learned the recipe for ratatouille just the night before, the dish contains a lot of ingredients, and I wasn't sure to which particular ingredients the wish referred. Maybe I had been too distracted by the neurotic guy at the library? I resolved to head to the grocery (where one could look up the ingredients to any dish).<br /><br />But before I left my lot, I paid my bills,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnvR0_RmRI/AAAAAAAAGwc/n5W7gCi_A2o/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnvR0_RmRI/AAAAAAAAGwc/n5W7gCi_A2o/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366583520549509394" border="0" /></a>and was cleaning up the newspapers,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnyEg0zc1I/AAAAAAAAGxk/2a869Xki4c0/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnyEg0zc1I/AAAAAAAAGxk/2a869Xki4c0/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366586590333465426" border="0" /></a>when an intriguing-looking guy jogged past my lot and glanced back over his shoulder.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnyEQ6Zk2I/AAAAAAAAGxc/MkDuzeQIfIo/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 376px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnyEQ6Zk2I/AAAAAAAAGxc/MkDuzeQIfIo/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366586586061968226" border="0" /></a>I called out a greeting. The jogger stopped, a bit out of breath, and I ran over to him. I must have looked like a desperate loser--galloping after some guy I don't even know!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnyEAvWlqI/AAAAAAAAGxU/I5QrLr1cMYg/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnyEAvWlqI/AAAAAAAAGxU/I5QrLr1cMYg/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366586581720667810" border="0" /></a>I caught up with him and introduced myself. His name was Jon Lessen. I explained to him (trying to sound nonchalant) that I had just moved to Riverview and was trying to meet lots of new people.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnyD0CIC0I/AAAAAAAAGxM/qq36GDjXsy8/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 333px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnyD0CIC0I/AAAAAAAAGxM/qq36GDjXsy8/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366586578309745474" border="0" /></a>I quickly found out that Jon was Artistic, Charismatic, and a Hopeless Romantic.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnyDqeo-HI/AAAAAAAAGxE/JIZtwJcsIS8/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 180px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnyDqeo-HI/AAAAAAAAGxE/JIZtwJcsIS8/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366586575744989298" border="0" /></a>Those are all good traits (I think--I'm not sure what "Hopeless Romantic" actually means).<br /><br />I also learned that Jon was single,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snnz5W3misI/AAAAAAAAGyM/OFs7E1BU3XQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 58px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snnz5W3misI/AAAAAAAAGyM/OFs7E1BU3XQ/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366588597705542338" border="0" /></a>and that he was not involved with anyone.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snnz5DVlCaI/AAAAAAAAGyE/gX02NjlCxlw/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 199px; height: 59px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snnz5DVlCaI/AAAAAAAAGyE/gX02NjlCxlw/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366588592462563746" border="0" /></a>(I've already figured out that sometimes when a guy says he's "single", that doesn't necessarily mean that he doesn't have a girlfriend--or even a fiancee. So now I always check for "Partner".)<br /><br />I thought Jon had nice eyes (even though he <span style="font-style: italic;">might </span>have been wearing eyeliner, like that "Richard Alpert" guy from "Lost").<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snnz40G1t9I/AAAAAAAAGx8/_CxjhmOaqsw/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 338px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snnz40G1t9I/AAAAAAAAGx8/_CxjhmOaqsw/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366588588374210514" border="0" /></a>[For his part, Jon thought that Grace was naturally pretty. "But, man, those eyebrows! They look like 2 dead caterpillars!! Girl, get thee to the day spa." But he kept this thought to himself.]<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snnz4lvJMhI/AAAAAAAAGx0/3v1rBTF3Rsw/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 326px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snnz4lvJMhI/AAAAAAAAGx0/3v1rBTF3Rsw/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366588584516727314" border="0" /></a>We continued talking. I found out that Jon was a Virtuoso who was employed in the music industry,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn3LtGue7I/AAAAAAAAGy0/09AnQnC9Q7g/s1600-h/ScreenShot017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 118px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn3LtGue7I/AAAAAAAAGy0/09AnQnC9Q7g/s400/ScreenShot017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366592211447086002" border="0" /></a>specifically as a lead guitarist.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snnz4aRP0AI/AAAAAAAAGxs/38arPp5HwKs/s1600-h/ScreenShot016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 57px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snnz4aRP0AI/AAAAAAAAGxs/38arPp5HwKs/s400/ScreenShot016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366588581438541826" border="0" /></a>Although the only kind of music I really like or know anything at all about is my favorite classical music, I was able to sustain a conversation with Jon about music for quite a while.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn3LCqHmpI/AAAAAAAAGyc/gpn1fqHvhQ4/s1600-h/ScreenShot020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn3LCqHmpI/AAAAAAAAGyc/gpn1fqHvhQ4/s400/ScreenShot020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366592200052808338" border="0" /></a>We also had a long talk about books.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn3KxH9MMI/AAAAAAAAGyU/20rt7hScFzQ/s1600-h/ScreenShot021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn3KxH9MMI/AAAAAAAAGyU/20rt7hScFzQ/s400/ScreenShot021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366592195346116802" border="0" /></a>Surprisingly (as far as I was concerned), trying to talk to Jon about art--given that he's Artistic--<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn5r6YB8mI/AAAAAAAAGzc/GIGtz2W4qfg/s1600-h/ScreenShot026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn5r6YB8mI/AAAAAAAAGzc/GIGtz2W4qfg/s400/ScreenShot026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366594963788395106" border="0" /></a>drew not much of a response from him.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn5rtSbTQI/AAAAAAAAGzU/533NU6BGtnk/s1600-h/ScreenShot027.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn5rtSbTQI/AAAAAAAAGzU/533NU6BGtnk/s400/ScreenShot027.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366594960275229954" border="0" /></a>Searching for another of his traits, I tentatively broached the subject of family.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn5rZ0m1fI/AAAAAAAAGzM/ye8PgP_ShGk/s1600-h/ScreenShot018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 348px; height: 359px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn5rZ0m1fI/AAAAAAAAGzM/ye8PgP_ShGk/s400/ScreenShot018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366594955049883122" border="0" /></a>This, too, brought no particular response from Jon, though he still seemed to be happy to be talking to me.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn3LdGLCtI/AAAAAAAAGyk/1jvhciS7Lls/s1600-h/ScreenShot019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 378px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn3LdGLCtI/AAAAAAAAGyk/1jvhciS7Lls/s400/ScreenShot019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366592207149796050" border="0" /></a>We talked for so long that I started getting seriously hungry.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn5rFsa2OI/AAAAAAAAGzE/PjAEY5bk6zI/s1600-h/ScreenShot022.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 159px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn5rFsa2OI/AAAAAAAAGzE/PjAEY5bk6zI/s400/ScreenShot022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366594949646833890" border="0" /></a>I scarfed down a tomato, and decided to throw caution to the wind and compliment Jon's appearance. This pleased him.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn5rFj6YPI/AAAAAAAAGy8/trlU29UqqGo/s1600-h/ScreenShot023.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 346px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn5rFj6YPI/AAAAAAAAGy8/trlU29UqqGo/s400/ScreenShot023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366594949611151602" border="0" /></a>I also complimented his personality, which he also seemed to like.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn8q9uJ3iI/AAAAAAAAG0E/DOHXEeypAGM/s1600-h/ScreenShot024.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 364px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn8q9uJ3iI/AAAAAAAAG0E/DOHXEeypAGM/s400/ScreenShot024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366598246041509410" border="0" /></a>I flirted, and this did not go unnoticed by Jon.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn99NmyBaI/AAAAAAAAG0k/ScERAED_rvw/s1600-h/ScreenShot025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn99NmyBaI/AAAAAAAAG0k/ScERAED_rvw/s400/ScreenShot025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366599659054826914" border="0" /></a>(Well, at least he didn't walk away, though I wondered how a lead guitarist's reaction to overt flirting could be so placid.)<br /><br />As I had become quite tired, and wanted to end my meeting with Jon on a good note, I said goodbye to him, and immediately went to sleep for a few hours.<br /><br />When I got up at dusk, I went across the river from my lot to fish. It sure was a beautiful sunset, and it would have been nice to have someone to share it with.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn8qaWCdEI/AAAAAAAAGzs/RMREhywr__0/s1600-h/ScreenShot031.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn8qaWCdEI/AAAAAAAAGzs/RMREhywr__0/s400/ScreenShot031.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366598236545119298" border="0" /></a>I caught one new type of fish, a Siamese Catfish (I've lost track of how many more new types I still need in order to satisfy the "Catch 5 New Types of Fish" wish),<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn8qDKEoPI/AAAAAAAAGzk/HDxOWEe_1Ts/s1600-h/ScreenShot032.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn8qDKEoPI/AAAAAAAAGzk/HDxOWEe_1Ts/s400/ScreenShot032.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366598230320914674" border="0" /></a>then packed up, and headed for the grocery, where I found out that the ingredient I had to grow in order to satisfy the "Grow Ingredients for Ratatouille" wish was tomato.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn8qQgyTzI/AAAAAAAAGz0/AAI3ewvDlm4/s1600-h/ScreenShot030.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn8qQgyTzI/AAAAAAAAGz0/AAI3ewvDlm4/s400/ScreenShot030.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366598233905844018" border="0" /></a>That shouldn't be too hard, since I've already grown some Great tomatoes.<br /><br />Restless, I returned to the fish hatchery, and caught a Tragic Clownfish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn99LAI7yI/AAAAAAAAG0c/vTZFT7YzjQc/s1600-h/ScreenShot033.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn99LAI7yI/AAAAAAAAG0c/vTZFT7YzjQc/s400/ScreenShot033.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366599658355879714" border="0" /></a>and a Mood-Lite Candle (which I promptly sold for $65),<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnoBqIWaarI/AAAAAAAAG0s/xC6EN-lGXok/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 124px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnoBqIWaarI/AAAAAAAAG0s/xC6EN-lGXok/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366603729272990386" border="0" /></a>and reached Fishing Level 5 (which enabled me finally to use live bait!).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn98zrnjkI/AAAAAAAAG0U/r9Ntho5fE94/s1600-h/ScreenShot034.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn98zrnjkI/AAAAAAAAG0U/r9Ntho5fE94/s400/ScreenShot034.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366599652095790658" border="0" /></a>Almost as important, I figured out that the fish hatchery had a public bathroom....<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn98v3ss5I/AAAAAAAAG0M/mn_xMAaff5o/s1600-h/ScreenShot035.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 333px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snn98v3ss5I/AAAAAAAAG0M/mn_xMAaff5o/s400/ScreenShot035.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366599651072717714" border="0" /></a>It was mid-morning Saturday before I got back home to sleep.<br /><br />************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace meets 5 new guys at the gym, avoids one guy she's already met, and improves her skills.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-19548949032308973332009-08-10T10:00:00.001-04:002009-08-11T13:14:18.262-04:00Grace Haven: Day 5I slept for just a couple of hours Thursday morning, then got up and planted the various items I was now able to plant as a Level 5 gardener--lime, potato, watermelon, and onion. And they were all Nice quality.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snj8dbBEsXI/AAAAAAAAGss/aiYG7WQu2vs/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snj8dbBEsXI/AAAAAAAAGss/aiYG7WQu2vs/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366316538410611058" border="0" /></a>I fertilized them all with Nice bell pepper, except that I had one Red Herring that I'd caught, so I used that to fertilize my new lime tree.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snj8dJD_mtI/AAAAAAAAGsk/-r9t_3xM1n4/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snj8dJD_mtI/AAAAAAAAGsk/-r9t_3xM1n4/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366316533591022290" border="0" /></a>Then I went back to bed.<br /><br />I awoke again just before 7:00 a.m.,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snj8c3bQyTI/AAAAAAAAGsc/MlNgPXeubI4/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snj8c3bQyTI/AAAAAAAAGsc/MlNgPXeubI4/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366316528856779058" border="0" /></a>and found to my delight that I had my own plants to harvest!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snj8cso3cpI/AAAAAAAAGsU/mm57Da7hoXI/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snj8cso3cpI/AAAAAAAAGsU/mm57Da7hoXI/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366316525961048722" border="0" /></a>After I weeded my garden, I swapped out the Very Nice apple tree and the Very Nice tomato plant for Great varieties of those plants, which the day's harvest had yielded.<br /><br />I looked through my inventory for something more to plant, but found only an Unknown Uncommon Seed--<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snj8cUDkfbI/AAAAAAAAGsM/zaoz0rFVq-8/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 164px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snj8cUDkfbI/AAAAAAAAGsM/zaoz0rFVq-8/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366316519362166194" border="0" /></a>which Gardenia had warned me would just be a duplicate of one of the lime, potato, watermelon, or onion plants I had planted the night before, and one Unknown Rare Seed,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkBM9vergI/AAAAAAAAGtU/tFbfASzGSkw/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 232px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkBM9vergI/AAAAAAAAGtU/tFbfASzGSkw/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366321753232420354" border="0" /></a>which I was unable to plant because I wasn't yet skilled enough. "There'll be time for that later," I told myself. I resolved to hang on to that seed, but to sell the Uncommon seed to the grocery the next time I was there.<br /><br />I got dressed for the day and went to the gym.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkBMnAO4YI/AAAAAAAAGtM/AC5E8Pq4l38/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkBMnAO4YI/AAAAAAAAGtM/AC5E8Pq4l38/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366321747128672642" border="0" /></a>After I showered and used the toilet, a quick look upstairs revealed that the only guy there was probably there with his wife (since the two shared the same last name).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkBMryzSVI/AAAAAAAAGtE/yNZsPIz1_sg/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 338px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkBMryzSVI/AAAAAAAAGtE/yNZsPIz1_sg/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366321748414515538" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkBMbpwiBI/AAAAAAAAGs8/hySJdSOdd94/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkBMbpwiBI/AAAAAAAAGs8/hySJdSOdd94/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366321744081618962" border="0" /></a>"What kind of name is 'Kurt Shallow', anyway?" I asked myself. "If that's not truth-in-labeling, I don't know what is!"<br /><br />So, I went fishing, to a spot southeast of the warehouse<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snmav-ROauI/AAAAAAAAGuc/VOmLG6XAx_M/s1600-h/ScreenShot020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 217px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snmav-ROauI/AAAAAAAAGuc/VOmLG6XAx_M/s400/ScreenShot020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366490579948432098" border="0" /></a>(which warehouse was rumored to be a hotbed of criminal activity) that promised a couple of types of fish that I hadn't yet caught.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkCmtL8kAI/AAAAAAAAGts/09Ya5e-TYmI/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 178px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkCmtL8kAI/AAAAAAAAGts/09Ya5e-TYmI/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366323294976643074" border="0" /></a>I really threw myself into my casting, which surprised me, because I had never had any upper-body strength. Maybe I have more going for myself than I thought?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkBL-Oj7LI/AAAAAAAAGs0/ZkwXXxmf5YM/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkBL-Oj7LI/AAAAAAAAGs0/ZkwXXxmf5YM/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366321736182918322" border="0" /></a>It was a productive outing. I tried several types of bait, and managed to catch both an Alley Catfish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkCmjf4poI/AAAAAAAAGtk/DzAskyP6NU8/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 322px; height: 101px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkCmjf4poI/AAAAAAAAGtk/DzAskyP6NU8/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366323292375918210" border="0" /></a>and a Rainbow Trout.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkCmc7hmLI/AAAAAAAAGtc/z41YCT4SGY0/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 103px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkCmc7hmLI/AAAAAAAAGtc/z41YCT4SGY0/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366323290612799666" border="0" /></a>After I'd caught a few fish, the spot went cold (which Gardenia had advised me was a normal occurrence). I spun a wish to catch a new type of fish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkGhpx9WQI/AAAAAAAAGuU/L-9nycNHGfg/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkGhpx9WQI/AAAAAAAAGuU/L-9nycNHGfg/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366327606209501442" border="0" /></a>so thought I'd try my luck with the salt-water fish at the hatchery, which was not that far away from the warehouse.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkGhPQ4RaI/AAAAAAAAGuM/lx4fwPs27iA/s1600-h/ScreenShot015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 389px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkGhPQ4RaI/AAAAAAAAGuM/lx4fwPs27iA/s400/ScreenShot015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366327599091434914" border="0" /></a>"This sure is a convenient place to fish!" I thought, taking in the 16 ponds situated close together.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmbS-IpSxI/AAAAAAAAGuk/FZ4RBQ7jwsA/s1600-h/ScreenShot028.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmbS-IpSxI/AAAAAAAAGuk/FZ4RBQ7jwsA/s400/ScreenShot028.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366491181207866130" border="0" /></a>I tried every kind of bait I had in my inventory that I was able to use (I couldn't yet use fish as bait, because my skill level was too low).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkGgp64gFI/AAAAAAAAGuE/3vCnTjf43cg/s1600-h/ScreenShot018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 366px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkGgp64gFI/AAAAAAAAGuE/3vCnTjf43cg/s400/ScreenShot018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366327589067063378" border="0" /></a>In short order, I had both caught a new type of fish--an anchovy--<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkGf89jyqI/AAAAAAAAGt8/VG_tfKCfBhI/s1600-h/ScreenShot016.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 321px; height: 103px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkGf89jyqI/AAAAAAAAGt8/VG_tfKCfBhI/s400/ScreenShot016.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366327576998693538" border="0" /></a>and reached Fishing Level 3.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkGfSIAIRI/AAAAAAAAGt0/Sfqua5XMFeA/s1600-h/ScreenShot017.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 194px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnkGfSIAIRI/AAAAAAAAGt0/Sfqua5XMFeA/s400/ScreenShot017.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366327565499769106" border="0" /></a>I also caught a tuna.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmpSiLGnwI/AAAAAAAAGvE/c9Of1YpOU5s/s1600-h/ScreenShot022.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 322px; height: 106px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmpSiLGnwI/AAAAAAAAGvE/c9Of1YpOU5s/s400/ScreenShot022.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366506566864772866" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmpSZYZEpI/AAAAAAAAGu8/xDvEjCT_opY/s1600-h/ScreenShot021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmpSZYZEpI/AAAAAAAAGu8/xDvEjCT_opY/s400/ScreenShot021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366506564504588946" border="0" /></a>Shortly thereafter, I spun a wish to catch 5 new types of fish.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmqLm4SndI/AAAAAAAAGvM/a_na-Bfca3o/s1600-h/ScreenShot019.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 339px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmqLm4SndI/AAAAAAAAGvM/a_na-Bfca3o/s400/ScreenShot019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366507547380587986" border="0" /></a>So, I moved around the hatchery, trying various different ponds. I lugged my radio around with me, tuning it to my favorite classical music.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmmPnnLuPI/AAAAAAAAGu0/SeGhkeKKeDA/s1600-h/ScreenShot026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 349px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmmPnnLuPI/AAAAAAAAGu0/SeGhkeKKeDA/s400/ScreenShot026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366503218250234098" border="0" /></a>I caught a jellyfish,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmrTFvE-HI/AAAAAAAAGvU/6W9eQbS58gw/s1600-h/ScreenShot023.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 325px; height: 101px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmrTFvE-HI/AAAAAAAAGvU/6W9eQbS58gw/s400/ScreenShot023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366508775434156146" border="0" /></a>though a look at my Fishing skill journal showed that I hadn't yet discovered the bait for it.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmmPR1xwiI/AAAAAAAAGus/yNkk4zJT_7w/s1600-h/ScreenShot024.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 158px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmmPR1xwiI/AAAAAAAAGus/yNkk4zJT_7w/s400/ScreenShot024.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366503212405867042" border="0" /></a>I stocked up on Red Herring to use as fertilizer, and reached Fishing Level 4.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmrTZ4zEII/AAAAAAAAGvc/9BgymCajMCc/s1600-h/ScreenShot025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 350px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnmrTZ4zEII/AAAAAAAAGvc/9BgymCajMCc/s400/ScreenShot025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366508780843634818" border="0" /></a>As day turned to dusk, I packed up my fishing gear and my portable stereo and headed to the library to read the one recipe that was in my inventory.<br /><br />I decided to walk, and on the way, found a few Unknown Rare seeds, and picked them up.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snm8hLeHaGI/AAAAAAAAGv8/QlZbRLSwlqw/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snm8hLeHaGI/AAAAAAAAGv8/QlZbRLSwlqw/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366527709189466210" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snm8g54wEtI/AAAAAAAAGv0/JsQoqx6BcRw/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 385px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snm8g54wEtI/AAAAAAAAGv0/JsQoqx6BcRw/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366527704469344978" border="0" /></a>At the library, I sat down to learn the recipe for Ratatouille,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snm8g1iFA3I/AAAAAAAAGvs/kYuksN2BiG0/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snm8g1iFA3I/AAAAAAAAGvs/kYuksN2BiG0/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366527703300506482" border="0" /></a> and mastered it in no time. Just as I was trying to figure out what to do with the rest of my evening (I knew my garden as yet needed no tending, since I was able to check on it remotely), another hunky guy walked past my chair.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snm8gqqfBJI/AAAAAAAAGvk/VMy3fKHu2RM/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 392px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snm8gqqfBJI/AAAAAAAAGvk/VMy3fKHu2RM/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366527700382975122" border="0" /></a>I bravely followed him into the computer room and introduced myself.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnL9EO9oMI/AAAAAAAAGwU/iGsyPqjNQ3M/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnL9EO9oMI/AAAAAAAAGwU/iGsyPqjNQ3M/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366544680957616322" border="0" /></a>Unfortunately, I quickly found out that Hunter Cottoneye was Neurotic, Mean-Spirited, and a Loner.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnL8vZQiXI/AAAAAAAAGwE/hfTGm5R4l4k/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 239px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnL8vZQiXI/AAAAAAAAGwE/hfTGm5R4l4k/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366544675363654002" border="0" /></a>I'm well shod of him!<br /><br />I left the library and stopped by the community garden on my way home to bed.<br /><br />While harvesting there, I reached Gardening Level 6.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnL82RUfsI/AAAAAAAAGwM/_0Wjys0XZys/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 374px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnnL82RUfsI/AAAAAAAAGwM/_0Wjys0XZys/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366544677209407170" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next week, when a cute guy jogs by Grace's lot, and she chases him down, and spends a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">lot </span>of time chatting him up....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4622440973141797955.post-31117948455918515542009-08-09T10:00:00.000-04:002009-08-09T10:33:59.625-04:00Grace Haven: Day 4Wednesday before dawn when I got up, I spun a wish to make my bed, which wish was worth 250 Lifetime Happiness points.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sni_ggy-EoI/AAAAAAAAGps/Qvh0L3LVG2g/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sni_ggy-EoI/AAAAAAAAGps/Qvh0L3LVG2g/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366249521292382850" border="0" /></a>I love it when stuff like that happens, because, since I'm Neat, I had planned to make the bed anyway....<br /><br />While tending my tiny garden, I got a wish to harvest a wild plant, which I figured would be easily satisfied at the community garden, so I headed there.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sni_gRlN5yI/AAAAAAAAGpk/VjXgFxRswcM/s1600-h/ScreenShot038.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sni_gRlN5yI/AAAAAAAAGpk/VjXgFxRswcM/s400/ScreenShot038.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366249517208168226" border="0" /></a>I had another wish to find some seeds, which wish could also be satisfied at the community garden.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sni_gNtPPhI/AAAAAAAAGpc/Ma1vHG49j0w/s1600-h/ScreenShot039.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 368px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sni_gNtPPhI/AAAAAAAAGpc/Ma1vHG49j0w/s400/ScreenShot039.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366249516168068626" border="0" /></a>I was really racking up the Lifetime Happiness points! I got another wish, to talk about gardening, so I sought out the only man on the premises (even though I thought he looked too old for me).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sni_fwvDZOI/AAAAAAAAGpU/JpC5QbRCFsE/s1600-h/ScreenShot041.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 217px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sni_fwvDZOI/AAAAAAAAGpU/JpC5QbRCFsE/s400/ScreenShot041.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366249508391052514" border="0" /></a>His name was Norman Joy, but I couldn't find a way to "Talk About Gardening" with him, so I tried starting with "Get To Know" him. After only a couple of minutes of conversation, though, he revealed to me that one of his traits was "Never Nude".<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sni_fpazlQI/AAAAAAAAGpM/OkXTtpmxyxA/s1600-h/ScreenShot042.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Sni_fpazlQI/AAAAAAAAGpM/OkXTtpmxyxA/s400/ScreenShot042.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366249506427081986" border="0" /></a>Way too much information, as far as I'm concerned!<br /><br />Even after finding out that nugget, I still couldn't manage to talk to him about gardening. I tried enthusing about the outdoors, but he hated that.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjV4ownRjI/AAAAAAAAGqE/BTJbrydDhMc/s1600-h/ScreenShot043.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjV4ownRjI/AAAAAAAAGqE/BTJbrydDhMc/s400/ScreenShot043.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366274125002655282" border="0" /></a>What on earth was this guy doing outdoors at a community garden, then?<br /><br />I gave up, and went back to harvesting plants.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjb69Ch5xI/AAAAAAAAGqM/G4yqlippXWA/s1600-h/ScreenShot044.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjb69Ch5xI/AAAAAAAAGqM/G4yqlippXWA/s400/ScreenShot044.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366280761876014866" border="0" /></a>In doing so, I amassed enough Lifetime Happiness points to redeem one of the cheaper rewards.<br /><br />If it had been up to me, I would have waited to amass 20,000 points and gotten the Super Green Thumb reward, but Gardenia was adamant that I should start looking for a husband. So, I picked the Observant reward, which will help me discover others' traits more quickly.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjV4OoC-II/AAAAAAAAGp0/iyZlAARf1cM/s1600-h/ScreenShot045.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 366px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjV4OoC-II/AAAAAAAAGp0/iyZlAARf1cM/s400/ScreenShot045.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366274117987399810" border="0" /></a>I cleaned myself up at the gym,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjs0SSOH6I/AAAAAAAAGq0/QUrH9IzFrEg/s1600-h/ScreenShot001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjs0SSOH6I/AAAAAAAAGq0/QUrH9IzFrEg/s400/ScreenShot001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366299339017559970" border="0" /></a>and went to the library to do some reading on Cooking, both to satisfy a wish and because I needed to learn to cook for the GAC Challenge.<br /><br />I sat down in the corner with my book, and tried to concentrate on my study, and not on the hunky serviceman sitting in front of me. (Grace, you're so bad!)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjs0F9cEXI/AAAAAAAAGqk/c5VntfQIyMY/s1600-h/ScreenShot003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjs0F9cEXI/AAAAAAAAGqk/c5VntfQIyMY/s400/ScreenShot003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366299335709167986" border="0" /></a>But once I reached Cooking Level 1 and got my Lifetime Happiness points, I gave up and went over and introduced myself.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjsz0SCx9I/AAAAAAAAGqc/j3wl3Vp7YrM/s1600-h/ScreenShot004.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 343px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjsz0SCx9I/AAAAAAAAGqc/j3wl3Vp7YrM/s400/ScreenShot004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366299330963752914" border="0" /></a>I then spun a wish to flirt with this guy! (His name was Sherman Bagley.)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjs0OnSocI/AAAAAAAAGqs/s12-Cq7wYMs/s1600-h/ScreenShot002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 373px; height: 319px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjs0OnSocI/AAAAAAAAGqs/s12-Cq7wYMs/s400/ScreenShot002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366299338032193986" border="0" /></a>I was horrified, but I did as well as I could. I started slow, just getting to know him. I found out that he was Friendly, Lucky, and a Coward. (So why was this guy in the military?)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjszrdQdVI/AAAAAAAAGqU/0XjVD24decM/s1600-h/ScreenShot005.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjszrdQdVI/AAAAAAAAGqU/0XjVD24decM/s400/ScreenShot005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366299328594867538" border="0" /></a>I also found out that he was single,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjvzJyeXdI/AAAAAAAAGrc/AVBuY-pQ6js/s1600-h/ScreenShot006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 382px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjvzJyeXdI/AAAAAAAAGrc/AVBuY-pQ6js/s400/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366302618091937234" border="0" /></a>but when I tried to talk about family, he was unresponsive. Perhaps he was too hungry to talk to me?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjvyrTjRxI/AAAAAAAAGrU/DSaCu3XPHcY/s1600-h/ScreenShot007.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjvyrTjRxI/AAAAAAAAGrU/DSaCu3XPHcY/s400/ScreenShot007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366302609909171986" border="0" /></a>I found out he wasn't involved with anyone. (Maybe there's a reason?)<br /><br />Undaunted (Grace, you're so brave!), I tried flirting again, and this time I at least got my Lifetime Happiness points, even if I didn't really get anywhere with Sherman.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjvyV1u4cI/AAAAAAAAGrM/f3DPuwvjjMU/s1600-h/ScreenShot008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjvyV1u4cI/AAAAAAAAGrM/f3DPuwvjjMU/s400/ScreenShot008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366302604146958786" border="0" /></a>We said goodbye, and I stopped by the grocery on the way home, to sell some extra produce,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjvyIjzuGI/AAAAAAAAGrE/-ArFNVJ9sRo/s1600-h/ScreenShot009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/SnjvyIjzuGI/AAAAAAAAGrE/-ArFNVJ9sRo/s400/ScreenShot009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366302600582117474" border="0" /></a>and buy some more links.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjvx6MwhFI/AAAAAAAAGq8/ojdvjz9pv2Y/s1600-h/ScreenShot010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 208px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjvx6MwhFI/AAAAAAAAGq8/ojdvjz9pv2Y/s400/ScreenShot010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366302596727342162" border="0" /></a>I headed home to bed,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjx6SjW11I/AAAAAAAAGsE/kWX7zPuP7C0/s1600-h/ScreenShot011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 382px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjx6SjW11I/AAAAAAAAGsE/kWX7zPuP7C0/s400/ScreenShot011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366304939726788434" border="0" /></a>but suddenly got a wish to buy something that cost at least $100.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjx6WVnfFI/AAAAAAAAGr8/bL4WCzeVAlM/s1600-h/ScreenShot012.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 309px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjx6WVnfFI/AAAAAAAAGr8/bL4WCzeVAlM/s400/ScreenShot012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366304940742900818" border="0" /></a>I didn't really need anything, but the wish was worth 350 Lifetime Happiness points, which is considerable. So, I decided to get some outdoor lighting. (After all, my garden will eventually be big enough that the light from that one streetlamp won't be enough for me to garden at night, if necessary.)<br /><br />I briefly considered a light that cost $100 exactly,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjx6IJoPJI/AAAAAAAAGr0/ncV3FI_hgCY/s1600-h/ScreenShot013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 92px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjx6IJoPJI/AAAAAAAAGr0/ncV3FI_hgCY/s400/ScreenShot013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366304936934522002" border="0" /></a>but in the end I opted for one that was more attractive--something I wouldn't be embarrassed to have in the garden of the nice house I'm increasingly sure I will eventually have.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjx59LDTCI/AAAAAAAAGrs/JNkFjwEhSWw/s1600-h/ScreenShot014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 79px; height: 92px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjx59LDTCI/AAAAAAAAGrs/JNkFjwEhSWw/s400/ScreenShot014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366304933987699746" border="0" /></a>I put the light near my (currently) tiny garden, and went to bed.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjx53NwG8I/AAAAAAAAGrk/tbLTECyDfdU/s1600-h/ScreenShot015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AEuoA6E6hzE/Snjx53NwG8I/AAAAAAAAGrk/tbLTECyDfdU/s400/ScreenShot015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366304932388412354" border="0" /></a>************<br />NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Join us next time, when Grace plants the other 4 plants she needs to work toward her Perfect Garden, gets her first home harvest, improves her fishing, steers clear of one guy, and bravely flirts with another.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1