Swan Eaters by Georgia Dunn for July 19, 2019

So that’s what happened to Grandma’s eye!

“It’s all fun and games until somebody gets their eye replaced with a Soothsayer’s stone (forsooth).”

One mystery solved! She’s not a Borg after all.

I love this one so much!

Be careful what you wish for.

Talk to Ivan, I’m sure he would oblige, especially if Uncle Offal encouraged him! (Anything to help the family business!)

Oh goodness. I almost choked on my coffee when I read, “it makes people uncomfortable as hell.” I just love Granny. Calls it like she sees it.

I want a kid like Clover.

In high school I had an albino friend who was nearly blind. I’m sure she’d have been happy to have had one eye replaced with a Soothsayer’s Stone.

Olwen has a brother?!

Gramma: “You should have seen what happened after Baba Yaga got burned at the stake! That was glorious! I was after her for weeks about buying us a BBQ grill.”

But when stoking fear remember that there is a fine line between demanding food and asking to get lynched. Although they don’t desperately need food at moment, that past quote is still a very good lesson from Grandma about not overplaying your hand.

The opposite of “A Christmas Story” – “You’ll put your eye out” is a promise, not a warning.

See all Grandmas have wisdom. It comes in many forms.

I thought that thing in Olwens eye was a “seeing stone” when I first saw it. There are ancient stories from Scotland about seers using them to foretell future events or see things happening far away.