It's THAT Time of Year Again My Friends: Secret Saturnalia!

My gift is being shipped outside the country, so apologies in advance to the recipient if it should arrive in a slightly tardy manner. I had intended to launch it sooner, but that didn't end up happening.

Speaking of "outside the country", lo and behold, look at what arrived in our mailbox while I was having my AM nap this morning (I work nights).

Ladymarcovan placed this on my bedside table while I snoozed, so I opened up my eyes a few minutes ago and ... there it was!



Whoa! A bit of "thunder from Down Under"! Yee-haw!

This one, it happens, had an even longer journey than the trek ahead of the package I just mailed a few hours earlier! All the way from the opposite side of the globe to me here in coastal Georgia!

I did open the outer package to be sure this was indeed my Secret Saturnalia gift and not something else (I certainly wasn't expecting anything from Australia, though, so I had a hunch.)

Inside was a smaller parcel cocooned in cardboard and duct tape.

And a very nice letter.





WOW, thank you, @Ancient Aussie!

How exciting!

Like you, I will probably be identified by my recipient since I had to put my name on the customs form of the one I just mailed out, though I did not put my username anywhere on or within the envelope, as you can see in my "mailing" pictures I posted from the post office earlier this morning.

After reading your letter, I now find myself wishing I had done the same thing for my recipient, instead of merely jotting a short, relatively impersonal, and hastily-scrawled note.

Something also gives me a hunch that after I open your innermost package, I'm also going to wish I had "stepped up my game" a bit more for what I sent out. I can only hope my recipient likes it. He was previously unfamiliar to me before this.

So ... as to what's inside that innermost package I got from @Ancient Aussie ... what do y'all suppose it was?

Perhaps a small Vegemite tea sandwich made with some very dense and rigid crackers?

A coin pouch made from wombat foreskin?

Oh, the mystery!!!

Did I restrain myself and refrain from opening It?

If so, will I continue to exercise restraint?

Time will tell!

Spoiler

 

But what if wombat foreskins are perishable?

 

In one hour it will be December 17th here, and I'm gonna see what's inside that wombat f innermost package that @Ancient Aussie sent! I wonder if he's opened his yet, since it's already December 17th on his side of the globe.

 

In perhaps 10-15 minutes I will be uploading pictures of it.

I'm sure I'll like it. If I really love it, it will join the Eclectic Box, since I've done away with the 20-coin limit and $200 minimum value I used to hold myself to with that collection. It sounds to me like you carefully selected my gift and I assure you I appreciate that fact no matter what.

It is 11:55 PM by my clock.

The very brink of our Saturnalia celebrations.