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The Sandbox Writing Challenge 2018 — Exercise 26
I’m trying to catch up on the last couple challenges! So these may be short and sweet!
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What makes life magical?
This is really an easy one for me. Seeing my grandkids get excited about something like when they saw the Christmas tree grow on stage the first time we took them to see The Nutcracker and they were all amazed. It felt as if I were seeing it for the very first time, too, through their eyes. It was very, VERY magical for me to see their reactions!
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What would your perfectly magical day be like?
(I’m changing this to a WEEK!) Sitting in a lighthouse keeper’s cottage situated on a beach at the edge of a forest with his nibs. We’d spend our days exploring, then at night we’d sit out on the dock, look at the stars, watch the light go round, and he’d teach me how to snip the ends of cigars soaked in brandy and smoke them. Then after I barfed a time or two we’d OD on Coke and Chocolate — every night! 😉 (Of course we’d have a housekeeper/cook for the whole week, too!)
This is my favorite lighthouse, Heceta Head Lighthouse near Florence, Oregon. I almost drowned on that beach down there when I was seven!
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Picture Sources:
Little Girl — web.shadidphotography.com
Carousel — PxHere
Lighthouse — Skyscanner
Impromptu Promptlings 
Jim bought me a box of thin ‘flavored’ cigars once so I could share the experience while he was smoking his…have to admit I much preferred the scent of his pipe though …Brad has it now. Won’t be long till he brings it out again…Jim said it was an autumn/winter thing…😊
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Well that’s kind of nice that Brad chose to keep it. I love the smell of pipes, too. Cigars and cigarettes just smell nasty!
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I agree!! lol
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You smoking cigars? And OD’ing on chocolate and coke? Wow!!! I do love the smell of cigars and pipe tobacco. But you’d sure as heck barf more than once smoking them 🙂
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Probably. When Amy and I stay all night in the lighthouse in Maryland, we sat out on the dock and tried to smoke them. No on told us you had to clip the bloomin’ end off to night the damn things! I’ll bet his nibs and Mark were laughing their heads off back here at home KNOWING we’d never get them lit!
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LOL! I have smoked the odd cigar and pipe myself so I know about the nipping and am a dab hand at filling a pipe so it draws well 🙂
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I’ll have to try a pipe one day, too. Maybe a HOBBIT pipe packed with OLD TOBY!
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