I redeemed a lot of sets for coins and upgraded the Orchard to level 5.  It will take 16 hours and I'll have time to get a bowl of that soup, which will bring my max energy to 590.  I wonder if the food sale means that AK will be updated soon?

When my energy is replenished, I'm going to play Coral Cove.  Hopefully I'll get enough Fairy Glass to get rid of some quests and get some of the Wispering Lillies needed for Ria.

I had 3 quests involving pink moonflowers.  I played whatever HO that gives them out 4 times and received 1 moonflower.  Since I still need 18 of them, at that rate I'll have to play the HO 72 more times.  And at this point, it costs me 80 energy units to play. 

Since I had quests to play mini games that require buildings to be at level 5, I thought there was an outside chance I'd catch up before the next update.  But with the horrendous drop rate on pink moonflowers and crookshank's portraits, I think not.

Thanks, lilyr.  If I get stuck on any timed quests, I'll ask for help but on the regular stuff, I'll just plod along.  I bought anothr soup to increase my max energy, which brought my diamonds down to 16.  My squabbit isn't happy.  He thought I should buy him some stuff instead.

I managed to get enough glass shards to get 2 trophies in whatever game it was that unlocks the mini game at Fahleel's and then played the Fahleel minis.  That gave me a quest to go find some coins at Central Station and give them to the travelers at Sacred Grove.  Of course I got no unicorn feathers when playing Sacred Grove.

Upgraded the Squabbit Den to level 4, which gave me yet another quest requiring pink moonflowers.  Got enough Fairy Glass to give to whichever fairy it was asking for it and that gave me another quest to play mini games requiring more fairy glass.

So right now I need: 23 pink moonflowers, 3 portraits, 1 whispering lily, 10 pet food, 6 unicorn feathers, and more glass shards, fairy glass, paint brushes, and artifact boxes than I want to count.

I'm still being hounded for money, the animals in the squabbit den are ill, I've still haven't healed my pegacorn, and Capt Greg is still being difficult about getting away from all this.  It would be nice if Queen Sophia would send one of her letters and include some coins and diamonds in it.

I've got 20 quests open.   

I'm not even looking at this game until after midnight.  Then I'll see how much energy I have and decide what's the best thing to work on.

The inhabitants of the AW seem to lurch from crisis to crisis.  Too much an echo of my real life this year.  I get my credit card mess sorted and the next day get a jury duty summons arrives in the mail.  I am VERY afraid of this year's hurricane season.  Haven't been hit by anything since Wilma, so we are long overdue.

Well, the other day I played the HO scene that gave pet food and got enough to play a mini game and complete a quest.  That gave me a new quest to play yet another mini game at Triffledore's.

When the clock rolled over last night, I decided to play Dawnshadow Lake and get paintbrushes and maybe some moonflowers.  Played 4four times and  got ONE moonflower but enough brushes to play one mini game.  I'm beginning to think that pink moonflowers only drop during one mode.