Meat cookies are made of bacon. Just sayin'.

The something "innocent" in the cookies was added by (Id ping her but since she doesn't have internet at moment and just her phone I hate her to have LOTS of pings, like she probably will anyways.)

I'm sorry.

Okay, all this talk of cookies, meat and otherwise is making me hungry people... and I just finished eating dinner!!!

Need. Cookies. Now.

right there with you! I am wanting a gooey butter cake cookie something fierce right about now...but that would mean packing the 3 smallest people into a car and driving to the one store that makes the best ones. It seems like far too much effort for a cookie (is what my brain says)and I don't need a cookie (is what my hips say)but they are so amazingly yummy (is what my taste buds are screaming!).

I think I will just stop reading this thread with its references to cookies everywhere and go eat some fruit. (grumble, grumble...lol)

IT IS NO COINCIDENCE YOU AND I ARE STILL IN COLOUR METHINKS!

, : A lot of that 'innocence' grows 'wild' up here in the California foothills. Weldon stays away from it, he is leery of it.

: It's the Two Turtle Problem.....

He is leery of the leafy problem them. nods

Dun dun dunnn, maybe the evil spirits like potatos covered in glitter! Its like a kindgegarten cleanup nightmare!

: Fig Newtons are fruit.....

Welly just pulled a fresh apple pie out of the oven, hot gooey, cinnamon with French Crumbly topping....nom nom nom. He made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies last night. I think he is getting ready for fall.

, yes, Welly is aware of the 'leaf' issue. Most of the 'wild' leaf is heavily guarded by dogs, guns, booby traps, gorillas, evil henchmen motes and possibly dragons. The FBI, DOE, NEA, FEMA, OPEC, PETA and AARP have been flying black helicopters, SR71 Blackhawks and Donald Trump over our area looking for this 'leaf problem,' with little success. Some clever 'leaf farmer' disguised his 'leaf' plants with red christmas balls to make them appear as tomato plants on their infrared photos that they take at night. Apparently tomatoes and red christmas tree balls have the same infrared signature. I wonder if you can hang tomatoes on your christmas tree this year...although I suspect you will be arrested for growing 'leaf' without a license if you did....

: I want to thank you so very much for my very very nice presents, I got everything I wanted this year. You are a master-planner and everything went off with a minimum of fuss as far as I was concerned. Well...except for the turtle thingie...but that wasn't your fault, we were just over exuberant in our interpretation of what a Seelie was or wasn't and .... I'm babbling....

Thank you again for a wonderful time! I will definitely be back again next year. Kitcher, Donner and the pups say hello and Weldon is glad to have me home again. He even baked me a pie. I had a great team and want to be with them again next year.

, we watched a program about those special farms, they make meds for people with arthritis etc, from what I could tell. On a similar subject, Im in England and have always wondered why people put gravy on their biscuits? I was told thats not like our biscuits/cookies, you see we have cookies which are soft and often have choc chips in, but we have tons of biscuits that are hard: digestive, ginger nuts, rich tea, custard creams, we even see oreo's in shops now which are the nearest to our biscuits i guess, none of those would be good with gravy lol, so, what is gravy & biscuit?

First of all, thank you so much to all of you who have written such lovely messages and made such wonderful comments. It's my pleasure to do this event, and I'm glad so many of you enjoyed it! Barring the unforeseen, it will be back next summer.

This will be one of the last posts/pings of the event. I plan to ask Write to lock us all down at this time tomorrow, so you can comment away until then. After that, you will not be pinged for WS until we start up again with WS4 previews unless there's some sort of huge surprise :D.

Nutsy's will start at the end of Luminaire, so, if you want to join some of us for those revels, you will need to join Nutsy Nefarious Nights, if you haven't already. This is a murder mystery, HA design, and puzzle solving role-player in which you will play a detective. You may play as a team, in pairs, or even solo. It is based around one single mystery, is only about a month or so long, and doesn't require classes, although you may play your detective any way you wish. It does have prizes, of course, but they are less lavish.

So what happens to the current gallery stuff that doesn't get picked? It goes into the stash for WS4. I do have a shop that accepts anything, including your junk, called the Squirrel's Stash. I throw my odds and ends from quests in there. It's autopriced regularly, and all sp in the till goes toward buying gallery prizes. (It's great for Boutique grabs, etc.) This year we had just over 132 million, which boosted our prize selections quite a bit!

Below is a list of anyone who's still missing a pick and also the folks who are MIA and I haven't seen. I'd appreciate any news from them. (I do know Witchy's computer is on the fritz, so if anyone knows what she might like, I'll grab them out since she only got one.)

Here they are:

Missing two picks and

MIA worry, worry and

This year, we had 83 active players who finished the event, three crew members besides myself: FCoD, Georgie, and Crash, eight offsite judges, and two "silent partners" who provided those fabulous monsters you battled, since I suck at monsters.

Please add any questions or comments you might have, and see you next year!

Huge hugs, kisses, and COOKIES!

My hats off to you dear sweet lady for yet another wonderful adventure {{{HUGS}}} You are just plain amazing and I can't wait for next years fun :D

: Welly makes the best biscuits and gravy, so I am somewhat an expert. What we call biscuits over here in America is actually a non-yeast bread made of flour, shortening ( either lard or vegetable based solid cooking fat ) buttermilk, salt, baking powder and baking soda. It forms a stiff but light dough that is rolled out, cut into disks and baked. Can be split open easily, buttered, spread with jam and eaten for breakfast. They are flaky, savory, and are possibly Weldon's most favorite food. He never goes anywhere without several in his pack. ( it's a long story I will tell sometime. ) The only way you could improve on the American Breakfast Biscuit is to put a thick meat gravy over a split open it. ( without the jam ). The best gravy is made with bacon drippings and beef stock. HERE IS A VERY EASY RECIPE[/B] for making American-style 'Biscuits' . [b]HERE IS ALTON BROWN"S RECIPE

To Americans, any sweet, whether it is crispy, soft, chewy, or glazed are called 'cookies.' Biscuits are not sweet, although if you put sugar, nuts and dried fruit in biscuit dough, we call it a scone. Go figure.

Thats a typical 'cream tea' those are called scones here, usually with sultana's slathered with jam & cream, sometimes cheese scones, or cherry. Thats what we call beef teviot, like beef stew with a savory scone mix on the top. I dont know if people here would eat just the savory scone with gravy,see gravy is just plain brown pouring gravy here, if its tszuj'ed [word of the day] up with something its usually called sauce. So sort of the same but not :0) Thank you for your info, I have always wondered.

You and your team deserve a huge round of applause (and a long, luxurious vacation) for everything you've done! Thank you, thank you, thank you so much!

and Oh my gosh you are making me so hungry with those pic of delicious scones/beef pie. So so so so good! That beef our reminds me of chicken pot pie.

I have only ever had buscuits for dinner because I'm not from the southern USA - from California (west coast). We eat buscuits (buttery, light, flaky, yummyness) for dinner with a steak dinner(with beef gravy) or with gravy and chicken or with turkey and cranberry-orange spread and honey butter. I prefer mine with honey butter.

And for my two cents: I think cookies are mixtures of butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and baking soda or powder (give or take a few ingredients) and can be baked soft, or crispy. Though most of my friends and family enjoy soft cookies (chocolate chip, peanut butter bullseye, sugar/cut out, snicker doodles, oatmeal scurries, thumbprint jam, etc. etc. cookies). When I make brownies, or other baked sweet bars they aren't cookies - they all have different names.

But this is my take on the differences, and I'm from the west coast where things are a bit different. I know my east coast friends eat different. Lol

Joins in the standing ovation for Ms. Green

Aaaaaaand now I need some biscuits and gravy for breakfast and some beef stew for dinner... rumblegrumbleroar and some of those scones for dessert D: I've never seen them so lusciously topped! ... (I better have some greens for lunch! lol) hmm.. but do I have the ingredients... heads for the pantry

Thank you so much ! You are a treasure. Hugs

Thank you so much ! You are a treasure. Hugs