Adorable bath day drawing!!!

Our weather is up and down, we had snow 2 weeks ago and freezing. Now low 70s thankfully we dont need jackets for now. I bought my thanksgiving dinner items, I figure better to get everything now, and not wait until the last minute.

I figured you got busy with life, as we all do these days with things always changing. My city in RL has been in lockdown for over a week. Due to having the highest COVID numbers in the US, we made national and international news. So I am in hibernation mode in my home.

I cant wait for the day when you manuscripts get published, and All us bears get to say, I remember when. I find this so cool to get to hear the things you are going through to get published, its rare as an average person we get this insight to the whole process. As a devoted bookworm, and I am so fascinated. I am one of thoses that loved the smell of an old book.

Seems many bears are also experiencing the same mentality toward subeta. I find it, as an escape from all that is going on with COVID and politics. Well i hope that the battling and role playing improve in all aspects, so you can enjoy subeta the way your comfortable with.

Well if you get busy in RL and the Hall, you know the lairbear wave, means doing fine just busy with life. Bcsam has been super busy in RL to lately.

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER

BHH 150 tokens

your BHH makes me smile n shake my head now...like there she goes again!! congats

hey i didnt know till now that there is an achvmnt for entering YOURSELF in the potion lottery!! has a few levels to it..could be fun for y'all.

thank you so much for thinking of me wonderful you..pulls the tickets in gleefully into my arms and sniffs them..mmm just ike new money

Even I was surprised BHH hasn't been so generous lately. I need to check that achievement

P.S. I do have all the tiers of entering yourself for potion lottery. I am still working on scratchcards achievement. Scratchcard tier 1,845 / 2,500 5,000 last tier

Thank you so much, everyone who bought me tickets!

haha i just looked as well.and i have the potion ones. i am very surprised at some of the ones i DO have..i thought for a second that perhaps i was somehow looking at anothers achvmnts not my own..glitchy like my profile....but no..i actually have some earned there that i dont even remember doing..and many i can still work towards..small attainable goals would be nice.nods

I have been pecking away at the scratchcard achievement, if I finish now or later it doesn't matter to me. I think I have one more potion to use on a pet, and I will be done with different potions used on pet.

yowser you GO GIRL...sits back in awe hmm i used to have fun with achvmnt hunts..i think i will go find one i am capable of getting through perseverance not just luck...kinda soothing that way!! mmm and i like soothing ...like brushing your hair for along while..it means you arent in a rush.

chipping away at achievement, give me something to do here, I can do mindlessly watching tv or listening to audio books like right now. There is an app at the public library called, Libby. That you can listen to audio books on your cell. Talk about making tasks fly by, your mind is on your book and not how long the task is taking. I listen cooking, on internet, house work and even driving. You just need an account at the public library.

Brushing your hair is soothing, if its not down to your knees like mine was back in 1990. I find it soothing to mindlessly pet my dog that passed with her long fluffy hair, and she loved when i would do it. She would relax so much.

do you know about the WAZE GPS app (US app only) for your cell? it allows you to use Spotify for music as you drive. Seriously wonderful on long driving trips, many radio stations lose signal or aren't that good.

oh that sounds good! is kinda how i got through my nursing school and every licensing since then..

I would read it aloud into micro mini..those little handheld cassettes with just the enunciations as i would repeat in my brain and spoke the way i would need to learn things..like saying the issue then stating the way i would recall it better as well.

then as i commuted to and from work i would put one earbud in and listen as well a repeating it while i drove( i would leave blank spots i the tape to repeat the important stuff aloud..thus using more of my senses/it got me A's and was simple.

but like you possted to Frieda and i totally feel the same..i love the smell of books/ i love reading hardcopies becauseholding them feels good..turning the big pages and the soft plunk* when you close them up.

Oh that is brilliant. My younger son is going through medical school, he listened to audios, order medical cards from amazon, plus he would prop his books up and read while on the treadmill. Pure talent and coordination he didnt inherit from his Mama, I can trip over my shoelaces and thats on a good day.

We had an old library back home in Montana, I just loved visiting, smelling all the old books. I have a bunch of books I want to donate to the VA, but fear they will toss them out worrying about COVID. Never mind no one has touch them since before all this started, and have been shut up in a cabinet.

TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY BECAUSE: Weldon made me a sandwich that I've never had before...Dark, crusty bread, cut thick and lightly toasted ( I think it was a molasses oatmeal bread...it had oats on the crust) generously spread with soft, creamy farmer's cheese, sprinkled with sweet/tart dried cherries and toasted sunflower seeds and laid over with thin slices of peppered turkey. He served it with an ice-cold glass of spiced gluhwein and fresh baked ginger snaps. Talk about a Fall dinner!! Wow!

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I wish I had my 'lurking device' (this iPhone I use to get on the internet that my author gave me) back when I was training to be a Journey Level I Healer. Or, that I had used a stack of "Greek Cards" as my Author's mate Francine called them. Little 1-1/2 in X 3 in cards, punched in the corner, threaded on a snap ring with test questions written on one side, answers on the other. Francine had several rings like that when she studied for her Nurses exam. She called them Greek Cards because she learned how to make them from the Theology students who used the cards to learn Greek and Hebrew for their biblical studies. My author used Greek Cards to study for his Respiratory Therapy exams, but had moved to Cornell Notes when he studied to get his BA in Biology to be a teacher.

I didn't have notes, phones, cards, or rings. I had my Master. Everything was Paws-on training. Anatomy lessons was all surface anatomy, we had to visualize internal anatomy, or feel the organs by deep palpations. All knowledge was practical, nothing came from a text. The only text in existence in our Hall were my Master's 10 personal leather-bound journals. And nobody read those to study for the exams.

Master Harriet bragged that nobody had ever passed her exams on first try. In the many years she was Master, nobody earned their Journey Level I certification at first go. My little heart said, "Watch Me." and boy did I get in trouble! I determined to be the first to pass and I begged Master Harriet to let me read her journals so that I could uncover all the written knowledge that she had compiled. When she acquiesced, I was delighted. She only made three rules: Be ready to take the test in 7 days, put the journals back exactly as I found them, and do not remove them from her office. She left for the week to visit her sister in another village and I was allowed to go and study in her office while she was away.

What I hadn't expected to find when I opened the first journal was that she had penned them in badger runes, which I couldn't read. But I knew some code-breaking that I had learned from my little friends back in apprentice school. I spent 6 days breaking the code of those journals and had most of them read. On the 7th day, I ran out of time, stole the last journal and hid in the attic of Healer's Hall and decoded the last journal by candle light. (I never got a chance to read it though.)

I was caught, banished from Healer's Hall, lost my citizenship privileges and made to work off my apprentice fees on Healer's Hall farm during the hottest summer on record. (spent most of the summer stripped to my white fur just to keep the sun from killing me).

Oh, Harriet regrets being so harsh to this day, but she did a very good thing disciplining me in that way. I learned not to be so head strong and self-important and to be more of a team player. I learned that blind ambition is wrong akin to greed. And I learned that a day filled with hard, sweaty, dirty work is not an evil.

When I was reinstated back into Healer's Hall, I took my Journey Level I test right away...and failed. I was never so glad to fail as I was that day. I was glad to know what I needed to learn to be a better healer. I was glad to know that my Master was there to teach me. And that I didn't have to be better than everybody else. It was OK to let others shine too.

But it would have been nice to have some little cards on a ring. And so, now that I am the Master Healer, the first thing my apprentice healers do in their training is to cut out 100 little paper cards, punch them with a hole and loop them onto a string to hang from their apron ties. They can write anything on them they feel will help them study for their exams. But...nobody has ever passed MY Journey Level I exams on the first try. They think they can...

Little Me and my friend Bretton after a long day being kids

, would LOVE to taste that sandwich and don't think I'll try to pass the exam.. or will need more paper! Hope all is well this fall day!

..mmm watches you eat the great big sandwich...looks like there is enough for 2 :):) yes the ring of notes is great tool! stealing a journal..well you see how THAT turned out for you huh Frieda!!((hug))

TODAY IS A GOOD DAY BECAUSE: i get to play with my sister all weekend at a beach resort! BYE_BYE

ok...now YOUR TURN ....

MMM can I have some of your sandwich? Boy you studied the hard way, but lesson learned and I now your apprentices are grateful you found an easier way for them to learn.

Hey all it's been a long journey on subeta for me but I have lost total interest right now... life happens I will drop by a time or two for a while but I think I will be leaving permanently...

Seriously? KEEP in contact with FV, and come in once in awhile so you dont lose everything you worked for here on your account.

: Awe....don't go! Take a break for sure, but stay in the family please!

: I used a lot of paper on that venture!

: Yeah, well....Being the smallest of my kind for my age, being pure white (an evolutionary disadvantage some would say) and prone to hyperactivity, I made a lot of very impulsive decisions in my youth. I'm better now....wait....am I naked again?

Weldon is amazing at coming up with exciting sandwiches! Me? To be honest, I couldn't be compelled to try to make a decent sandwich. My idea of "cooking" consists of snatching anything that is edible and cramming it in my face on the go. Which is why we always have bowls of fruit, nuts, dried fruit, hard cheese and dried meats available in our pantry, just so that I won't try to eat raw potatoes, paws-full of corn meal or grasshoppers that I plucked from the lawn. ( In desperation I once attempted to eat a paw full of dry kidney beans. The crunching nearly made me deaf and you wouldn't believe the horrible case of flatulence.....well, never mind all that.) Apparently, he feels that, as Queen of the tribe and community and the Master Healer, it is beneath my dignity to go scampering all over the countryside on all fours chasing after prey when there is perfectly good food in the pantry. I don't know, grasshoppers are pretty tasty and I don't have to go into the kitchen to eat them (shudder). I'm deathly afraid of the kitchen.

One of Weldon's most remarkable sandwiches was the Honey and Orange Ham Sandwich. It's a variation on the Monte Cristo. He used a soft egg bread like the Russian Easter Bread, sliced medium, spread with orange marmalade on one slice, and mild German cracked mustard on the other, just a little. He piled on several slices of Munster cheese then honey-roasted ham sliced paper thin right from the ham. The sandwich was quartered, skewered, dipped in a fry batter and fat fried til golden, then drizzled with a honey orange glaze and served with a fork. He usually makes this on the Friday or Saturday after (American) Thanksgiving when there is still left over ham. (we have both ham and turkey for Thanksgiving. ) I don't know how he thinks this stuff up, he always says that he learned to do this while he was on active duty with the Watcher Corps. I don't believe him, but it's a great sandwich.

little me, helping mommy host a party, getting no help from my little friend Bretton

Gee whiz i am already hungry, and you made me hungrier.