D'vorahDavida
Yetzirah

Raspberry Lament
Mon Jul 27 2009

While driving down Sunrise Boulevard this afternoon at the ungodly hour of 4:00 pm on this hot summer day, I had a most unexpected experience.

Amongst the sweltering car butts ahead of me there swam a vision. At first I thought I was experiencing a heat stroke induced hallucination. But I blinked my sweaty eyes, and no, there it was, large as life.

A logging truck.

With real logs on it.

And lo, as I drove behind it, marveling at the incongruity of such a country sight in the middle of the city hub bub, what came wafting through my air vents but the woodsy smell of fir sap. The most unlikely smell of the entire week. Just think, how often does one smell fir sap on Sunrise Boulevard of a Monday afternoon?

Rare as hen's teeth I'd say.

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It's rude to tease me about teeth.
Who needs them anyway?
Food gets stuck in them.
They get cavities.
Bah.
Teeth.
Highly overrated objects.

Just so.
I suppose.

I wax poetic here this evening, because I find myself at loose ends. You see, FarmTown is down. Won't come up on the computer. It crashed.  You have no idea how distressing this is.... I can hear my fellow farmers wailing and moaning. From Sweden to the Philippines.

I myself have an entire field of raspberries that are going to spoil because they won't be harvested in time. That field cost me 3081 coins to plow and plant. It's all going to dry up and blow away in the cyber wind. My lovely, lovely raspberries.

Alas, poor Berry, I knew him well.

The trolls hath devoured him there under the bridge with none to give him succor.

All my plans have run amok.

Those digitized juices have fled.

To be seen no more.

Alas!

(It's been a hard week. I'm putting her to bed now. Perhaps she will be more herself on the morrow.... crap, I mean in the morning. Geeze. I need a vacation.)

(Farmtown. Good grief.)
6 Comments
  • From:
    Briarphoto (Unauthenticated) (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 28 2009
    alas a lie
  • From:
    404Error (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 28 2009
    Perhaps when they repair the game they will reset it to a restore point just before it crashed so that nobody loses any crops? I don't play, but I will hope with you.
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 28 2009
    Logging truck? On Sunrise Blvd? It must have been lost. Took a wrong turn back there 50 miles or so. Or you were seriously hallucinating. But what a loverly scent.

    Raspberries? What farm? Cyber winds? I'm lost.


    Bless
  • From:
    DancingStar (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 28 2009
    hmmm... either its been fixed or it is a local issue cause I can get in just fine to go a cotton picking =)
  • From:
    Mamallama (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Jul 28 2009
    Your scaring me. Seriously.
    Get some more rest.
    Geeeeeeez.
    For once I'm agreeing with ( ).
    That is even scarier.
    LOL
  • From:
    Diane (Unauthenticated) (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 30 2009
    We have seen a lot of those logging trucks aorund here the last week or so. Five or so to be more precise. On Sunrise quite afew times and also saw one today in Auburn coming down this way. Crazy isn't it?