Thank you for the shoutout (and reward!) as always!

I know precisely what of you speak. In my extended circle of online acquaintances there is an alarming number of QAnon/Truther/Conspiracy types whom I've always felt were reasonably intelligent people,

HBD is one of the best things we have, around here! Whereas I typically have to take my liquid earnings out to apply to bills and life in general, around mid-year I started putting the non-whole dollar

Merry Christmas Paul! I'm glad you're enjoying the season and warmer climates, and someplace where you don't have to shovel snow and scrape ice off the windows every day!

Thank you @sunscape, appreciate it! I never really considered doing cooking and food related posts, but I might take you up on that and do one in the future or maybe more than one. Merry Christmas to you

Well, I hope you enjoy and have a good time!

Yes, definitely something we enjoy around here as well. And something we don't get very much of. Happy holidays to you as well!

Thank you @hivebuzz, cool badge!

Yes, Covid definitely destroyed a lot of things for a lot of people! Merry Christmas to you, as well!

I will openly admit that I am probably an outlier as far as my capacity to spend time alone is concerned. I have spent summers in remote cabins with only nature for company, and only a trip to town for

Agreed, there definitely are a lot of things that tend to keep us worried and distracted and unable to fully turn our attention to the things that we feel are most important to us. And that is quite sad.

I suppose it's all part of the cycle of human life. When we are young, we try to get as much as we possibly can... and as we grow older we want to let go of it again.

Thank you. I understand what you mean about back pain being very tiring. I have an old back injury that I'm always battling and whenever I do some heavy work of some sort, it always lets me know that it's

There's something mildly ironic about the idea that we have to work for peace and quiet! I'm grateful we live in a house that we paid cash for, so we have neither rent nor mortgage to worry about. Property

Methinks you're right! I'd like to think we'll get it, too. Merry Christmas!

That's one of the things I like about it... not getting disturbed.

Thank you! His passing was no great surprise as he had been in the throes of a degenerative illness with no cure for over a year. Still, you're never "prepared" for the finality of the last breath.

You're very kind! I've just been doing this for a very long time; almost 25 years a blogger. Never been much of a "short form" type user, though.

Yes, and that's part of what I find fascinating... how we have very similiar stories across vastly different areas of the planet. How did we come to think of the same things, without having any contact

Indeed. I bet there many aspects of Nigerian folklore that have been shared and handed down across so many ethnic groups for so many generations that they have become mythical, yes?