You just have me a flashback to my circus days. I remember siting outside the clown alley tent playing my mandolin and a bird flying overheard dropped a gift on me. Thankfully I was wearing just a tee shirt and not a full costume when it happened. Ahh the good old days...

I can't imagine anything funner than getting bird droppings out of silk, lace, synthetic wigs and grease paint. . . You could make a clown skit out of that one!

I once had the fun of having a Shriner Clown as a co-worker. As I understand it, ALL Shriner Clowns are volunteers. For sure, this rotund fellow was. I worked with him at his day job. One morning he came waddle-hopping up to me in the maintenance bay, crying, "Guess what!!! I'm gonna give birth to a baby elephant! I spotted its trunk this morning!!"

Thanks for the grin, Atec. I needed that.

Fact of the day: There is a saying at clown college to remind you that you need to be outstanding to get a job after graduation. " Shine or Shrine".

A mud-cave lit by phosphorescent tree roots sounds absolutely wonderful! Thanks for sharing that! I think I might borrow that fantasy some time, if I may?

I have two main ones, well, one is actually a memory. I went snorkelling during the night once. There were these small, phosphorescent algae floating in the water everywhere, like tiny stars or fireflies that I could dive through. I had a waterproof torch, and every now and then suddenly a shark or a turtle or a scool of fish would appear seemingly out of nowhere. It was beautiful and peaceful. I always loved the sea (and being in it), add to that the not-quite-silence of being under water and not seeing anyone in the darkness? Heaven.

The other, sci-fi nut that I am, I imagine taking a space shuttle close-ish to a nebula, and then getting off it and randomly flying around in my space-suit (which I imagine significantly less bulky than a real one) in front of all those colours.

The mud caves in my mind are infinite enough that we can all isolate there. Floating in the mud is like a natural sensory deprivation chamber. Custom fitted. . . Once I've let the mud suck my stress from me, I like a stretching climb through the geo-thermal vents which go from the mud baths to the bee garden above the caves.

One of the great tragedies of my life is a saltwater allergy that covers me in small water blisters any time I spend time in the salt air. My skin typically starts itching from the salt in the air within 10 miles of the coast. My loss!!! Thank god for documentaries, but it ain't the same as being there.

I love your mud caves on Min's world : ) I love the whole planet. your caves are the most developed of any of it though, and you brought it there all the way, already like that. it is fascinating. I wonder if the Calypso is still crash landed there?? I am going to go and see...

Blast from the past. Nearly 2 years after I posted this, I am having another one of those days. Some of you have kept up with the aeroponics lab/rooftop garden dream which is currently in litigation for breach of contract with a man who appears to have taken my money and run for the shelter of evasive maneuvers.

This morning's need for a therapeutic "Safe Place" has me revisiting my mud caves. Got my phosphorescent tree root in hand and I'm walking the gentle slope to the mud baths. The mud pulls the stress toxins out through the pores in my skin. Floating in mud is kinda like a full body massage without the insinuations of human touch.

Lots of room in my mud cave, if anybody wants to pluck a phosphorescent tree root and join me. Be sure you put your tree root back where you found it. The trees need their roots.

I love this! Love love love this~ So. How do I get you to build a mud cave in my woodland??? wow can you imagine the level of relaxation that would bring. triple hugs~

Oh, and where can I read about Min's world? I suspect I would thoroughly enjoy it.~

Beach!!! Any beach, really, but preferably one with white sand and the clearest blue water imaginable. It's -23 right now and my Canadian ass thinks that's not too bad but really just a closer degree to beach weather lol.

Me and hubs first date was an outdoors one. We were strolling down the path in the park and one of the feathered beings decided to shit on my head. As you are now aware, lol, it's not a land and stop there, it's like throwing paint, and it ran down half my hair. I literally started crying out of embarrassment and disgust. Date ended with me ruining my hair washing it out. Hair that I spent over an hour doing because it was long and curly and takes forever to straighten. I was told it's good luck, still with hubs so maybe but I really think it's said to be lucky so the mortified shit wearer has some measly consolation.

I would love a mud bath as well...... I can see the cave behind a breathtaking waterfall surrounded by Van Gogh's sunflowers...

Gentle hug for all who need it..... What an awesome way to spend a day.....xo

this is wonderful, arfie, oh the soothing soaking of the mud.

your woodlands are all around you when you come to min's world - if you place them here :) nancy xo there is so much room for us to build - it is all new still.

and the planet is small so there is beach everywhere 0- i think so - right, arfie? except, probably a good bit farther than ten miles away from wherever the Arf is - so she won't get the blisters. unless maybe on the this world, arfis isn't allergic to the ocean :O) lol, how cool would that be xo

ohhhhh, Van Gogh's sunflowers, how gorgeous, and relaxing. i'm going in, i sure do eed a relax attack.

all the way up to my ears please. thank you so much

I did some surfing around for Min's world, but DS doesn't have the most graceful search engine I ever worked. The price of freebies. . . Ya get what you pay for. It was a bit before the start of this thread in April 2016. I may go devil dog on this one. I remember Min's world as worthy of being a classic, but. . . Did I mention my memory damage?

The building of the mud cave in your Woodland began when you asked the question, Nancy. Is that your giraffe and zebra I see up there in the apiary which sits atop the thermal vents to the mud cave? Looks like they are discussing something important.

Jenn. . . The beach is at the bottom of the cliff which holds the caves. You can wander along the cliff to get to the beech or you can access it on the same path I used for my land entry. The phosphorescent tree roots are on the land entry end of the path. Not to many tree roots like salt water.

i don't think there are any of those large fertilizer dropping birds here either.

arf - i searched for the min's planet or world and cannot find it anywhere :(

we have it in our hearts and memories - now here xo