Thread:GMseeker/@comment-33762881-20170825215204/@comment-31678353-20170829123638

Hi! No worries about getting back to me. Summer is a busy time as it is. I've had more yardwork and then taking advantage of the beach, needing to exercise, etc. I have more important things to do that I've been avoiding and need to start focusing on that. Realities can be intrusive, right? ((:

I hope the dog is OK. I didn't try to find out because I don't want to know. I want to think the dog made it. If she is cleaned up she would be one of those cute, scruffy dogs. Since she had a collar, but no rabies tag, she's owned and I don't know if it ran away or was abandoned.

I was able to do the Ship's Deck because a mysterious person gifted me 3,000 calendar thingies, otherwise I wasn't going to do it for lack of time and the amulet wasn't so important. I got the avatar but after a week I changed it back to my favorite one. When I was done I had over 100 left over that turned into arrows, ladybugs, etc. which helped those since I had more than two quests neeeding Tree of Dates which ordinarily takes long to do. Then the mysterious person who gave me 20 Gold Weights was awesome. I'm down to 5 of those left. I put an effort into charging and gifting my 50 people to help them as well as me but it takes a bit over a half hour to do both but I need it. I'm up to ~80,000 to get to the next level. Charging everyone brings down ~25,000-30,000 experience, so I still have to get 50,000 to go to the next level and refill my power.

So I'm still going for Scrolls of Wisdom and Gold Weight the most. I printed out that list of those things and there are 6 collections to get the Scrolls of Wisdom but some I barely have any items and the items are in Luxury Express, Mill, Tavern, Excavations, besides Forest House, Amusement, and 10 items each needed from Witch's Hut! Luxury Express is expensive to play. The handkerchiefs and The Archivist items are the easiest. So I'm just going to put up those collection items-especially the 4 I need via the Luxury Express. Your helping me on those has been great-thanks!

There are three hard Gold Weights out of the 5 you can get. Mammoth Whales and Gingerbread are the easiest, but the other 3 need items from Wigwam, Mountain Resort and Tavern, and those latter 3 need hearts/roses, snowflakes/stockings, and screws/washers. It's hard enough to get those to fulfill quests!

I won't be able to do the Heart of the Desert. (Mine doesn't say Guardian of the Desert). It looks so romantic-I just want to jump into these pictures-and it has a cute little cat! Sometimes he's in the plant. I still think Laboroatory is the hardest especially in Pieces mode. I still have 95 to go to finish Gem Match for the desktop lantern and 5 days left. I had gotten 17 days to do this. Again, because I spend time gifting and charging people I have less time to spend on myself, but I like helping people. Last night I didn't charge (though I had grown some power enough to charge you, and grew some enough to charge 3 people this morning). So I simply gifted people and had to spend time on Gem Match rather than finish all my hires I use on expensive photos. If I have only 20,000 or less to refill I won't use the Gold Weight because some will get wasted so I have 7,500 to go to charge everyone today. These details are boring you, I'm sure...I take it so seriously. ((:

What would help me since you are a Sage is not to charge my desktop but the most expensive pictures because with 2 hires alone it reduces about 1,000 and if you charge them I can reduce more faster. That would be the now most expensive Ship's Deck (154 energy needed), Orangey, Playground, Saloon, Luxury Express, Laboratory, Captain's whatever, Tea Room, Forester, Aviation, Festive Dinner, Farm, Tropical, Haunted Attraction, and now the new Tower. Less so, Camp, Mountain Resort, and Wigwam. Dagbeth and another guy have often reduced energy on those too. Some people charge my desktop but they cancel each other out if more than one person does it.

I could use a Beluga Whale for Gold Weight if you ever have the chance. The Archivist sepia pages from Forester house are good. Mayan Temple is being so stingy with one butterfly for Naturalist. The game is being stingy with Teapots too! I used to have tons of Pink Bottles and those are down. Now I'm back to needing basic combining items! I got all these extra Ladybugs via the unused Ship Deck's ones and then it gives me one leather. Grr.

OK, enough of that. At the beach I was talking to a woman about hawks and turkey vultures we have here that would pick up small kittens and she saw one pick up a small dog. I remember a story where these people let their cockatoo hang outside and a hawk easily saw that white bird and took it. Turkey Vultures are big with big wingspans and I wonder if they would go for a small cat. This was never a problem when we had outdoor cats but more coyotes are around since they've built houses on the mountains now. Then we have fishers, often incorrectly called fisher cats, and they are nasty and can turn their paws and go down a tree straight unlike a cat. They have killed my neighbor's chickens as well as oppossums have. Sometimes I wonder if the two oppossums that came on my porch once could smell my cat through the sliding glass door screen and a two on one? That would be tough. I never heard my cat yowl so loudly and he probably scared them onto the banister...I can show you a picture. They have vicious teeth.

It's just safer to keep them inside. Coyotes killed my uncle's cat--two on one. They went looking and found its remains. My cat will come out the door if I leave it open and just chew the nearest grass-he won't go into the yard. I have given him cat grass at times but he still wants the outside stuff. He is shedding like crazy now so I have to vacuum more. He throws up a lot too. He also won't shut up every time I go to bed. He'll have been sleeping, I'll go to bed, then he starts all his various meows. Why when I go to bed?? It's bizarre. I'm afraid my neighbors can hear him.

It's getting chilly at night now. This time of year kind of depresses me when it starts getting darker earlier and no more beach. The last few days have been gorgeous though-not so hot.

I hope you are doing well and the sadness of your cat's passing is easing. <3

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