Just Lookin

Gosh I love stores like these. So many things to touch and
inspire your imagination.

When asked if anything interests you, it's difficult to say:
Just Lookin   lol

My guys took me out for sea food dinner last night,
Topped with a nice hot jacuzzi making it a relaxing and fun day.
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Lev Tolstoy

1886)

ONE DAY SOME children found, in a ravine, a thing shaped like a grain of corn,
 with a groove down the middle, but as large as a hen's egg. 
A traveller passing by saw the thing, bought it from the children for a penny, and
 taking it to town sold it to the King as a curiosity.
The King called together his wise men, and told them to find out what the
 thing was. The wise men pondered and pondered and could not make head or 
tail of it, till one day, when the thing was lying on a window-sill, a hen flew in and
 pecked at it till she made a hole in it, and then every one saw that it was
 a grain of corn. The wise men went to the King and said:
'It is a grain of corn.'
At this the King was much surprised; and he ordered the learned men to find out 
when and where such corn had grown. The learned men pondered again, 
and searched in their books, but could find nothing about it. So they returned 
to the King and said:
'We can give you no answer. There is nothing about it in our books. You will
 have to ask the peasants; perhaps some of them may have heard from their fathers
 when and where grain grew to such a size.'
So the King gave orders that some very old peasant should be brought before him; 
and his servants found such a man and brought him to the King. Old and bent, ashy 
pale and toothless, he just managed with the help of two crutches to totter 
into the King's presence.
The King showed him the grain, but the old man could hardly see it; he took it,
 however, and felt it with his hands. The King questioned him, saying:
'Can you tell us, old man, where such grain as this grew? Have you ever bought
 such corn, or sown such in your fields?'
The old man was so deaf that he could hardly hear what the King said, and 
only understood with great difficulty.
'No!' he answered at last, 'I never sowed nor reaped any like it in my fields,
 nor did I ever buy any such. When we bought corn, the grains were always as 
small as they are now. But you might ask my father. He may have heard 
where such grain grew.'
So the King sent for the old man's father, and he was found and brought
before the King. He came walking with one crutch. The King showed him the 
grain, and the old peasant, who was still able to see, took a good look at it. 
And the King asked him:
'Can you not tell us, old man, where corn like this used to grow? Have you
 ever bought any like it, or sown any in your fields?'
Though the old man was rather hard of hearing, he still heard better than
 his son had done.
'No,' he said, 'I never sowed nor reaped any grain like this in my field. As to 
buying, I never bought any, for in my time money was not yet in use. Every one
 grew his own corn, and when there was any need we shared with one another.
 I do not know where corn like this grew. Ours was larger and yielded more
 flour than present-day grain, but I never saw any like this. I have, however,
 heard 
my father say that in his time the grain grew larger and yielded more flour than 
ours. You had better ask him.'
So the King sent for this old man's father, and they found him too, and brought him
 before the King. He entered walking easily and without crutches: his eye was clear, 
his hearing good, and he spoke distinctly. The King showed him the grain, and 
the old grandfather looked at it, and turned it about in his hand.
'It is long since I saw such a fine grain,' said he, and he bit a piece off 
and tasted it.
'It's the very same kind,' he added.
'Tell me, grandfather,' said the King, 'when and where was such corn grown?
 Have you ever bought any like it, or sown any in your fields?'
And the old man replied:
'Corn like this used to grow everywhere in my time. I lived on corn like this in
 my young days, and fed others on it. It was grain like this that we used to 
sow and reap and thrash.'
And the King asked:
'Tell me, grandfather, did you buy it anywhere, or did you grow it all yourself?'
The old man smiled.
'In my time,' he answered, 'no one ever thought of such a sin as buying or selling 
bread; and we knew nothing of money. Each man had corn enough of his own.'
'Then tell me, grandfather,' asked the King, 'where was your field, where did you 
grow corn like this?'
And the grandfather answered:
'My field was God's earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free.
 It was a thing no man called his own. Labour was the only thing men 
called their own.'
'Answer me two more questions,' said the King. 'The first is, Why did the earth 
bear such grain then and has ceased to do so now? And the second is,
 Why your grandson walks with two crutches, your son with one, and you 
yourself with none? Your eyes are bright, your teeth sound, and your speech 
clear and pleasant to the ear. How have these things come about?'
And the old man answered:
'These things are so, because men have ceased to live by their own labour, and 
have taken to depending on the labour of others. In the old time, men lived 
according to God's law. They had what was their own, and coveted not what
 others had produced.
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Old stories.
Gotta love them.
xoxoxoxo