Another Big Win in the Offing

We’ve been on a bit of a roll lately.  Scratch tickets coming in with modest gains.  Ten dollars, then twenty.  Last week, fifteen.  I can just feel it – a big win is just around the corner.  I’d contact David to help us pick out our “Lottery Dream Home”, but that may be premature, and we haven’t really decided on a location either.   Now, with that huge lottery jackpot over a billion dollars, I go to sleep nights planning the ski lodge in the Alps (neither of us ski, but we could certainly watch other people) or the ocean cottage (before climate change washes it away).  A manor house in Shropshire (because I love that name) or a warm retreat in a sunny location for the winter months. Perhaps a villa on the Mediterranean – Malta looks very nice, as does Majorca.  Someday, I’d like to walk into a Mercedes or Land Rover dealership and say, “I’ll take that one. Write it up and I’ll give you a cheque.”  

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