Adventures of a Discoverer

While staying at the Dungeness, at the Olympic Peninsula, I passed by a house in the countryside with a sign for "Fresh Duck Eggs". I never had them, so I decided to give them a try! The owner of the house was this really nice lady who showed me her ducks and also talked me more about their eggs. As it turns out, when compared to regular chicken eggs, duck eggs are a size and a half bigger and slightly darker (I put a picture of one of them next to a chicken one so you can see by yourself), have a thicker shell and a bigger yoke. She also told me that they have a buttery taste and she likes them so much that she doesn't eat chicken eggs anymore. I always preferred hard boiled eggs so when I got home I prepared them like that, and they turned out perfectly. Indeed they have a great buttery taste and I really liked them! I still like chicken eggs, but I have to say that duck eggs do taste better. The one issue is, because they have a thicker shell, they are harder to peel o...

I just had a brand new experience for me: having a Tarot card reader use the Tarot cards to answer some of my personal questions. If you haven't heard about it, Tarot readers use a deck of medieval cards (just like playing cards, although with much more elaborate drawings) and, once you ask a question, they pull some of them out and answer your question based upon the cards that came out. Here at the Soulfood Coffeehouse (one of my favorite coffee shops in the Seattle metro), they have on occasion a Tarot reader, and today I decided to try it out. I asked her some questions, which she used the cards to answer. Those questions can be about pretty much anything you want, related to past, present or future, so one of the questions I asked was "how can I be a little less anxious about things?" (honestly, I tend to worry about things more than I need). According to the Tarot reader, I should try to work a little less, take more rests, and try a change in scenery from time to...