Happy first day of fall. To celebrate, the weather here was cloudy and cool, a very pleasant change from the near 90 degree heat that we've had for the last several days. We also got some rain yesterday and today which we have really been needing.
But enough about the weather. My west coast brother has informed me that today celebrates elephants, rhinos and chainmail. While I know that the chainmail they are referring to is medieval armor, when I saw the word my mind went to chain mail of a different kind.
Do you remember chain letters? Of course this was all done by snail mail. You can actually Google copies of chain letters from the 80s. As I recall it worked like this: someone would send a letter to 10 friends asking for something. It might have been your favorite recipe (back in the days when we all cooked), a small amount of money or something else easily mailable. They were also asked to send a copy of the same letter to ten of their friends who were to send money or whatever back up the chain. Names and addresses of the person sending you the letter and the person who sent her the letter, with instructions to send something back to those two people and send the letter on to 10 more. At best, it was a harmless exchange of cookie recipes, at worst a pyramid scheme. Some of the letters even contained veiled threats of the "If you send this on you'll have good luck." variety.
Sadly, I was never much of a team player. I can't tell you how many chains I broke.
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