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Gail is on the bulletin board posting almost daily as well as answering Circle of Friends questions. A prior post:

1/6/08 Too Funny...In Search of My Grindstone

1/6 Hi Everyone, My apologies for being less than daily and less than creative on my creative daily blog as of late. The Promise of Lumby is due (dew, do, or we can be French and say, du) a week from tomorrow, so, if we had a grindstone at Lazy Goose, that's where my nose would be.
As I'm typing this, I have a flash of genius (which is really dangerous, as Art would attest). What we need at LG is, in fact, a large grindstone! As in from the 16th century.
It would offer endless possibilities: a bird bath for a 200 lb black-capped chickadee, the perfect hoof filer for a Clydesdale (of which we would have to buy, and then buy another to keep the first company, and then our fields would be covered with mountains of…. okay, I'm getting off point). Or, it could be used in lieu of cement blocks if we wanted to knock someone off and hide their body at the bottom of our 8’ deep crystal clear pond, or we could finally play rock, paper, scissor in earnest. The list just goes on and on.
Liking the idea all the more, I go to, where else but EBay and I'm so disappointed. There is not one 16th century grindstone to be had at any price! Who would have thought? In fact, there’s not one grindstone from any century. And they call themselves a diverse auction house. I think not.
So, if any of you have a grindstone laying around your living room that you're thinking of throwing out with tomorrow’s cat litter, please don't! Put a stamp on it and mail to me via the post office (Fed Ex may be a little too expensive).
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