As patriarch, impartial judge and poker-prodder-instigator, I hereby declare that Benjamin has met, if not surpassed the double-dog-dare and herewith has equal bragging rights with Lydia.
Well, son, I'm proud of you for mannin' up to this challenge. I mean, a double-dog dare is a double-dog dare. If the worst happens, don't worry about your blog. I'll go ahead and kill off all of your characters in some novel fashion. Maybe there will be a plague or pestilence across the land and even though they all stay in, they still all catch it and somehow die. I guess that means you better survive.
Probably. Although his home soil is more suited for it. I think. I've never studied the difference between the soils, but can the soil in Idaho be that much different than here? Again, I don't know.
Hmmm...Could it be??? Never mind, well, for a moment a chill went up my spine and I had an image of the Alchemist in my mind. I need to go back and re-read the whole story from the beginning. Or it could be indigestion. Or it could be a nightmare, induced by imagining a pile of your socks being somewhere...the smell! The stench!