View From the Bushes

I had hoped to have published a new adventure on Saturday, but unfortunately, my unemployed friend who was helping me found some temporary employment last week with the union and that kind of threw a wrench into the works. My understanding is that this brief period of employment will be over as of today and he can go back "volunteering" for me. I say volunteering because that's what you call working without pay... To give you a brief preview of the next adventure, it starts by asking the question of what the clerics and followers of a god would do, if their god died?

Halloween is fast approaching and I find myself committed to quite a few parties. The first one was Saturday night. It was thrown by some friends of my wife and it was fortunately very child-friendly, otherwise I doubt we could have attended. It also had a theme for all of the costumes, which was nursery rhymes. At times (generally when most inconvient) I can be something of a perfectionist. As such, I wanted to find a nursery rhyme that all six of us (me, my wife and all four kids) could fit into. Unfortunately, nursery rhymes are either very focused on one subject, or involve things that are difficult to turn into costumes, like forks running away with spoons. In the end we decided on For Want of a Nail. I don't know if it's strictly a nursery rhyme, but it was in a collection of nursery rhymes we had and it featured six parts.

Plus, we already had a queen/princess costume which would fill in for the kingdom spot and a horse outfit. I put on all my cycling gear to take the place of the rider, for the nail we just made a circle and some spikes out of cardboard and duct tape and put them on my two-year old. By the time we got to the battle and the horse shoe, we we pretty lazy. For the former I just had my wife carry around a foam battle axe my friend had picked up at GenCon and for the latter we just had my seven-month old daughter suck on a plastic horse shoe. When we got to the party it turned out that very few people had really gone with the nursery rhyme theme. One couple was dressed up as Ozzy Osbourne and Madonna. I'd be interested in hearing that nursery rhyme.

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Ross