Because... REASONS! :lol:

Fan of Lego bricks and Batman just have to watch this!!!
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Batman is just weird...

This is just in my in general Strawberry Shortcake pick-up mentions for late 2012. Going to start doing these more often. This isn't including comics or DVD's, which I'll at least do the comics of in another more detailed post.

I apologize for my poor picture taking and forcing you to get really close up pictures of my disgusting floor while the carpet is being cleaned. Sorry.

The first thing I guess I'll show off is the Strawberry Shortcake playdough I got from the Walgreens that Alexia works at. She always keeps an eye out for Strawberry Shortcake merchandise for me, even if it's stuff I can't fit into. This was one of the things I could enjoy personally though.

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It comes with little discs with the face of one of the girls on one side, and their fruit on the other.. the funny thing though is that..

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Yeah, you are seeing that correctly. Lemon's disc is orange, Orange disc is like a I assume the "raspberry" color, Blueberry's disc is Purple, Raspberry's disc is yellow, and Plum's disc is blue. And yes, Lemon's orange disc does make the lemon fruit, I checked. Just a really silly switch around on the colors I found amusing.

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Also allows you to make a Strawberry Shortcake mold, as pictured there. It's pretty cute, despite the mess around. Comes with a cute little playmat you can place the fruits in, a couple of colors though not enough to make correct colors of all the fruits, and your standard knife and roller and stuff. Not bad for honestly free.

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I found this at the Michael's craft store nearby. Just a cute dollar purchase, comes with a coloring book, a couple crayons, and a paper doll.. though the paper doll is dressed with "stickers" so it's a bit awkward. But for a dollar I'm not complaining. I got one pack to keep sealed and one pack to play with.

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Strawberry Shortcake PEZ dispenser. Like the Play Pack I got one for eating and enjoying and one to keep sealed. Not much else to say. ^_^

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Some apple juice that had a random assortment of cartoon characters on the tops did have Strawberry Shortcake among them, so Alexia brought that home for me. I already drank the juice, it was okay. ^_^

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The only Generation 2 pickup this year, though I have a few things planned for this year and this isn't counting DVD's which my collection of has really picked up. Just some cute, plain earrings. Still berry cute.

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A Strawberry Shortcake Beauty Set that I totally use. The packaging is very cute though so I keep it in it when not using it. Comes with glitter body spray, a tiny cosmetic bag, and some lotion. Took a closer picture of them all in the box of each.

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Another Strawberry Shortcake tin! I have a few of these, but this one is my favorite! It's a bit bigger and normal shaped, and it's got a cute little handle.

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There we go! ^_^

A.N. Sorry that this took so long. I found myself preoccupied with a number of pressing matters. Also, this chapter was actually longer, too long in fact, that I decided to cut it in half and later post the other part as chapter 9.

Quote:Year 1

Chapter 8: Monsterberry

Three days had passed after the event where I had sealed the deal with King Wulfgar. I would receive an electricity generator in return of the successful treasure hunt, and the generator would be delivered to Emerald City within a month. Both me and Henry had no idea what to do during the one month period. We had already prepared a construction plan and a few alternatives as well. We still had no materials at all, and we had no idea where to get any. I wanted to ask Glinda if she knew a way to get materials, but ever since I got back to Emerald City, Glinda had been somewhat missing. She only appeared during breakfast, lunch, and dinner time to provide our meal. Other than those, nobody knew where she was.

This morning, I was at the courtyard of Emerald Castle together with all my friends. We all were relaxing, lying down on the grass field there. Glinda had still acted the same during breakfast: Appearing, conjuring meals, and then disappearing.

"I really wonder..." I said.

"Wonder about what, Blackberry?" Strawberry asked.

"About Glinda," I said. "She has been acting strange lately."

"Oh, so you feel it too, Blackberry? Me too! You see, Glinda has been only with us during breakfast, lunch, and dinner time, am I right? Only to wave her wand to make our meal appear on the dining table, am I right?" Ginger said.

"Yeah, and then she just left," Angel said.

"Is something bothering her lately?" Orange asked.

"Who knows," Huck said.

"Well..." Peppermint said, seeming in doubt.

"What is it Peppermint?" Strawberry asked.

"I'm kinda, sorta scared that Glinda... we're becoming a burden for her," Peppermint said.

"Burden? That can't be!" Angel said. "Can it...?"

"Come to think of it... I'm starting to worry the same thing," Orange said.

"Kinda makes sense," I said. "Glinda had been living peacefully here with Henry, occasionally helping anyone who seeks advice from Wizard of Oz. Now she has eight kids to take care of."

"But all she has to do is to conjure all those meals with her magic, right?" Angel said. "Is that really a burden?"

"Angel Cake, I don't think she just merely conjures the meals," Strawberry said. "Well, maybe she did at first, but don't you all notice it? Since one week ago?"

"Oh yeah, the meals don't taste unnatural anymore ever since I came back from Dwarven Capital," I said. "In fact, they tasted much better."

"Does that mean...?" Huck said. "She cooked all of them herself? For us?"

"Probably," I said. "And she actually has been teleporting the meals from the kitchen to the dining table."

"We can't let her do this all by herself!" Strawberry said. "We should at least help her make our own meal!"

"Friends help Glinda," Apple said.

"You're right, Strawberry! Yes, you are!" Ginger said.

"Let's go tell her!" Orange said.

"But where?" Peppermint asked, and suddenly the cheerful atmosphere ceased to exist.

"Man, you're right," Huck said. "Nobody knows where she is now."

"Then, I guess we have no choice but to wait until lunch," Strawberry said.

"So, what are we gonna do now?" Angel asked.

"Anybody up for a walk?" Huck asked.

"Sure, count me in!" Peppermint said. The others agreed as well.

"What about you, Blackberry?" Strawberry asked.

"Go without me," I said. "I want to lie down here some more."

"Alright then, see you later, buddy!" Huck said, and seconds later I was alone lying down on the soft grass. Within the following minutes, I fell asleep there and when I woke up I had no idea how many hours had passed. The position of the sun was still pretty low at the East, so at least I was sure that it was still morning. I then decided to walk into Emerald City, hoping that I would meet the others there.

While walking in Emerald City, I kept thinking about how long I would have to live there. Despite the progress I had made on the project, it was still a very, very long way to go. The construction plan had been made, but nobody had any idea whether the result would be strong enough to endure the black hole. I even still had no idea how to get materials to actually do the construction.

All those thinking came to a stop when I noticed something at the town square. I saw Orange Blossom standing on what seemed like a shining red magic circle on the ground, holding a wand in her hand. About three meters in front of her, there was a berrykin also standing on a shining magic circle and holding a wand, though the magic circle was blue. It seemed as if they were doing a magic duel.

"Ready... set..." the berrykin said. "Go!"

Immediately, both Orange and her opponent pointed their wand at each other. A blue lightning came out from Orange's wand, and a red magic shield came out from the opponent's wand. The blue lightning shattered the red magic shield and hit the berrykin, but it caused no harm to the berrykin. Soon, a number '10' appeared above Orange's head and she jumped happily as the magic circle stopped shining. I wanted to know what actually had happened, so I approached her.

"Hey, Orange," I said.

"Oh, hi Blackberry!" Orange said.

"What did you just do?" I asked.

"It's a game," Orange said. "Want to try?"

"I don't even know how it works," I said.

"It's simple! You only need to point the wand at your opponent while thinking of a color, either red, blue, or yellow," Orange said.

"Is that all? Really?" I asked.

"Yes! Now try it!" Orange said, giving her wand to me.

"I will explain more while you play," the berrykin who had been Orange's opponent said. "Let's begin."

I then stood on the magic circle near me, and it started shining again. The same applied for the other magic circle. However, this time my circle was shining blue while the other was shining red.

"My circle is red, so I begin as attacker," the berrykin said. "Point your wand at me on my mark. Don't forget to think of the color."

"Alright," I said.

"Ready... set... go!" the berrykin said, and both of us pointed our wand at each other. A yellow shield came out from my wand, and a yellow lightning came out from my opponent's wand. The lightning hit the shield and vanished, and a number '1' appeared above my head.

"What just happened?" I asked.

"You defended correctly," the berrykin said. "If both players think of the same color, the shield will repel the lightning and the defender will get one point. If the colors are different, the lightning will shatter the shield and the attacker will get two points. The winner is the one who gets ten points first."

"So that's how it works," I said as both magic circles swapped their colors.

"No more need to explain, right?" the berrykin said.

"Yeah, no more," I said. "Let's duel!"

Later, the three of us were sitting on a bench at the town square. The berrykin brought us a drink, which was some kind of juice. The taste was good, although I couldn't recognize what the ingredients were.

"That game sure was fun," I said.

"Yeah, Blackberry. It sure was!" Orange said.

"I was quite surprised. I thought only Glinda can use magic around here," I said. "And the wizard."

"None of us can. The magic is in the wands," the berrykin said. "Glinda gave those game wands to berrykin children some time ago."

"Wow, Glinda sure is a nice person," I said.

"Of course she is!" the berrykin said. "But we pity her that she has to have such sister."

"Strawberry is no longer the same thanks to Gladys!" Orange said, seeming upset. "Gladys stole all her hair!"

"Umm, Orange? Glinda fixed that problem, right?" I said. "Why you suddenly brought that up?"

"Sorry. I just feel upset that Strawberry will never have her beautiful orange hair back," Orange said. "Her new hair is not bad, but... I still feel really upset whenever I hear that wicked witch's name!"

"Better change topic then," I said. "By the way, I still don't know your name."

"Marble!" the berrykin said.

"Nice to know you, Marble," I said.

"Same with you, weirdo with four eyes!" Marble said.

"Hey..." I said, a bit upset, though I knew she was just kidding.

"Kidding! Nice to meet you, Blackberry!" Marble said. "Hey, there's a place I want to show you! Come with me!"

"Well, why not? Show me the way," I said. "Come with us, Orange?"

"Yeah, sure!" Orange replied.

Marble then brought us to a small forest above a hill just outside Emerald City. The trees inside the forest were not tightly close to each other, so sunlight could still easily illuminate everything there. After walking for a few more minutes, we arrived at a place where a bunch of berries of many kinds grew everywhere. I could recognize strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and many others. There were also some berries I couldn't recognize, but they all made a very beautiful view around us.

"Wow, so many berries!" Orange said, being very excited.

"Pretty unbelievable," I said.

"We call this place Berry Jewel Box," Marble said. "Go have some!"

"Can we?" Orange asked. "Are we really allowed to do that?"

"You sure can! Everyone can!" Marble said.

We all then ate the berries around us. There were so many of them that I was very sure even if all eight of us were there we would not be able to eat half of them. The taste of the berries I knew were the same as the berries in Strawberryland. I had been believing that if life existed on another planet, the lifeform there would be very different. However, at this time I stood corrected.

"Thanks for showing us this great place," I said.

"Yeah! We appreciate it!" Orange said. "May us bring our other friends here someday?"

"Sure! Don't hesitate!" Marble said. "This place is open for everyone!"

"The berries here sure are tasty," I said.

"Of course!" Marble said. "But there's the most delicious of all berries. Monsterberry!"

"M-monster?" Orange said.

"Monsterberry is very huge! It's also very sweet and juicy! It's the most favorite berry of all people here!" Marble said. "But it only grows at Witchbane Ravine."

"Witchbane Ravine?" I asked.

"It's just at the other side of this forest," Marble said.

"The name sounds somewhat scary," Orange said.

"I don't know how it got that name," Marble said. "Maybe because magic doesn't work there?"

"How do people get the monsterberries?" I asked.

"Ripe monsterberries fall to the river at the bottom of the ravine and get carried towards Emerald City," Marble said. "But we rarely get any good monsterberries!"

"How come?" Orange asked.

"Crushed by the fall, eaten by wildlife before reaching us, and overripe," Marble said. "At least one of those three almost always happens."

"Why don't you pick them up from the ravine with rope or something?" I asked.

"The ravine is too scary! We don't have the courage!" Marble said.

"I see," I said.

"Ah, I must go back now!" Marble suddenly said. "I made a promise with my friend to meet them soon! You can go home on your own, right?"

"Yeah, don't worry about us," Orange said. "Thank you for showing us this place, Marble."

"No problem! Bye!" Marble said.

"Be careful on the way," I said as Marble left us running.

"Maybe we should go back too," Orange said.

"I want to enjoy this place some more," I said.

"It's almost lunch time," Orange said.

"I kinda ate too much here. I'll skip it," I said as I sat on the ground. "Go back without me."

"Alright if you say so," Orange said. "See you later then."

"See you later, Orange. Be careful on the way," I said. Orange then left me alone there.

"That was... kinda too easy," I said to myself. All I had said to Orange had actually been an attempt to make her leave me alone. I wanted to be left alone because I had the intention to secretly go to Witchbane Ravine to pick some monsterberries. However, Orange immediately agreeing to leave me alone confused me because the Orange I knew would have at least asked whether I had been sure.

After waiting for a few more minutes, I stood up and started walking away from the direction we had come from. It took me less than ten minutes until I finally saw a ravine. The ravine was much smaller than the ravine in Granite, but still dangerous. I carefully stepped towards the edge to locate any monsterberries in the vicinity, but I couldn't find any. I got more and more scared the closer I got to the ravine edge, so I then decided to lie down and continue moving by crawling. When I finally reached the very edge, I looked around towards the bottom of the ravine, which was visible and actually not that deep. Suddenly, the ground I was on cracked because of my weight, causing me to lose balance and fall down.

I was very lucky that there was a ledge protruding from the cliffside below the ravine edge. I landed there pretty much unharmed. However, the top of the ravine was out of my reach, and that meant I got stuck there. I sighed, feeling terrible at the problem I got stuck into, and sat down leaning to the ravine wall. Right beside me was a monsterberry for sure, because its size was as large as a basketball. I found what I wanted, but I couldn't bring it home to Emerald Castle because I had been careless, or unlucky, or maybe both, I didn't care.

I looked around myself to see the situation and condition of my 'prison'. The protruding ledge was more than wide enough for me to lie down. It was also decently comfortable because it was covered in grass. There were quite a number of monsterberries growing around me, though it seemed that only one was ripe. My conclusion remained the same, my only choice was to wait until someone came to help me.


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For a college assignment I have to choose one of these, install it into a new HDD partition of my PC, and then later make a presentation about it. Choosing a lower ranked one will yield higher score.

So, could anybody who knows a thing or two about Linux give me advice and recommendation on which one to choose? Thanks.


EDIT: It turned out I had to report my choice today to the lecturer, and after a quick googling of randomly picked names I decided to pick Bodhi Linux.
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If someone here can provide advice regarding my choice, it will be greatly appreciated. Of course I will work on it myself as well.

It's time for my return. Haven't been here in a while and yes I take full responsibility. I need to learn to get with something and stick with it. Hope you all don't mind. Do you guys still want me to write more? I hate to leave my story unfinished.

My father have a job at Indonesia. So I might not be around for a month starting from October 3rd (except if I have time). So, goodbye!
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Pomegranate and Mango ran towards Milk and Pineapple, followed by some policemen. The police chief of the district came along and Milk told the chief about what he saw in the woods. The chief looked at the photos carefully and explained a plan of how to arrest the three suspects to his men. Then they carefully went into the woods with Milk leading the way.
The policemen surrounded the area and caught the three suspects while they were busy cutting down another big tree. The three men were too surprised to run away. The police took the suspects to the police station and they will be taken to court the next day. The police chief was so proud of Milk, Pomegranate, Mango and Pineapple. “Well done, children, especially you, Milk. All of you have done a great job. I am very proud of you. You have saved the valuable trees in the woods,” said the police chief, “And thank you for helping the police.”
Milk looked at the police chief and said, “But sir, please look at this hand prints.” Milk showed him the photo of the hand prints that he had snapped in the woods. “I snapped these photos around the area where the tree were cut down; but none of the suspects has pointy thumb as in these hand prints.” The police chief looked at the photos and told Milk to take them to the place where the photos were snapped. When they reached the location, a policeman asked Milk when did he snapped the photos and some other questions regarding the matter.
Suddenly the policeman laughed softly, “Excuse me, sir. But I think I can solve this mystery. A day before Milk and his friends came over here looking for clues, John and I came here to inspect the woods. John tripped over and fell down to the ground. Actually that week he was too busy that he forgot to cut his finger nails and the nails were pointy and that made the pointy thumb hand print.” They looked at each other and everybody started to laughed.
Then the police chief said, “It’s getting late now. Come on children, I’ll send you home.” On the way they excitedly talked about the mystery and the police chief suggested that they look for nice name to call their team. Milk though hard and at last he came with an idea to mix their names together into PeforaMeen Solvers.
The chief gave everybody a present, a special note book together with a pen with the police department logo on them. The kids thanked him and they were so proud of their presents. The police chief told their parents about what had happened and their parents were really proud of them.
Milk was proud of his team for being able to solve the mystery and saved the trees in the woods. Milk love the nature, the trees, the plants and the animals and he understood that it is very important to take care of the environment. That night the children talked about the mystery with their proud parents.
The next day, after breakfast, Milk saw a newspaper on the dinning table. He was about to pick it up when he saw a headline on the front page, ‘Milkr Alfonso and his friends saved the Foodsland’s woods.’ Milk rushed to his sister’s room to show her the article, but half way to Mango’s room the phone rang. Milk rushed to answer the phone.
It was the police chief. He called to tell Milk about the article in the newspaper and to invite Milk, Mango, Pomegranate and Pineapple to a special ceremony to thank them for helping the police at the police station on the next day. He also said that he would like to officiate the PeforaMeen Solvers at the event.
After he put down the phone, Milk rushed to tell the good news to his sisters and the other team members. That night they were too excited that they could hardly sleep!
The next morning, Milk saw a police car with the chief, Pomegranate and his little brother Pineapple coming towards his house. Milk called out for Mango and they said goodbye to their mother. The chief was taking them to the police station for the special ceremony and their parents will be there later. Rupert was there too. He thanked them for saving the trees and asked for their parents’ permissions to take the children to the woods to teach them about the wonderful plants.
Pineapple asked Milk, “Milk, since this mystery is solved, will there be any more mystery for us to solve?”
“I hope so,” said Milk. “I hope that there will be more mysteries for us to solve in the future".

They rushed to the woods to investigate. As they were about to reached the woods, they saw a man walking behind a big tree. The man saw them and he disappeared among the trees and the kids lost him. Luckily, Milk managed to take a picture of the man before he ran away. They walked further into the woods, hoping to get some clues. But there was no clue at all and they did not see anybody else.
Milk said, “Pineapple and I are going to stay over here. We’ll stay on guard and try to get another photo of the man as a clue if he comes back. Pomegranate and Mango, you’ll both go to the police station and tell the officer what had happened. Take this photo and give it to the officer,” said Milk giving Pomegranate the photo of the man they saw walking behind the big tree.
So they went separate ways, Milk and Pineapple hid under some thick bushes while Pomegranate and Mango ran to the police station. After a while, the man came back. He tripped by one of Pineapple’s clever traps and fell down to the ground. Milk could see the design of his shoe sole and immediately he drew it in his notebook. He also took another picture of him.
Anyway looking at the man’s right hand, he found out that the man had no pointy right thumb. Suddenly the man spoke to someone. Then Milk and Pineapple heard a nice and soft voice and in came two more men, one looked kind of European and the other one looked smaller in size. They took out their chain saw and started to cut the big tree in front of them.
Milk was shocked, for in front of him was the German friend of his together with the small, slim and dark skinned man with white hair who they met earlier. So, it was Frederick and the other man who cut down the trees! Milk was puzzled, but what about the hand prints with pointed thumb that they saw? Frederick and the other man did not have pointed thumb. Carefully, Milk and Pineapple walked out from the woods. Nobody heard or saw them because of the loud clattering noise and the men were too busy cutting down the trees.
“Pineapple,” said Milk in a low voice as they walked away from the woods. “So, it was a team of three men working together. It was Frederick, the small, slim and dark skinned man with white hair who we met earlier and the man that we’ve just saw. The design of his shoe sole matches the one that we saw on the first day we came to the woods to investigate this case. Thanks to your clever trap, Pineapple. So, now we know who had cut down the trees. Come on, we should go to the police station now, It’s getting late and … look!” said Milk excitedly. ” The police officer is already here together with Pomegranate and Mango. Let’s show the new pictures to the police!”

The next day, the four friends had a meeting in Pomegranate’s garden to discuss about the mystery. “I found nothing in Greenland that can help us to solve this mystery,” said Pomegranate. “No clues and no information. Furthermore I can’t speak the language they speak, so it was hard for me to communicate with the Greenlander over there. So I think we’ll have to get more clues here in Foodsland. And the answers from Tamingsari couldn’t help us at all. He said he had never come here before, and this is the first trip to Foodsland that he had ever made. So, I don’t think my trip to Greenland can help us in solving this mystery,” continued Pomegranate.
They then decided to go to the woods to search for more clues. As they walked near the woods, they saw two men walking from the woods. One was small, slim and dark with white hair and the other was tall, big and red headed. Milk asked the first man, “Good morning, sir. Sorry for interrupting you, but do you know the person who had cut down the trees in the woods or do you know someone who might have done it?”
“No,” said the man looking angrily at Pomegranate, “and stop playing in the woods. This is a dangerous place,” he continued in a croaked voice. He walked towards his big truck, stated the engine and drove away.
Pomegranate walked to the second man, “Excuse me, sir. Do you know someone who might have cut down the trees in the woods?”
The man looked at them with a warm smile. Then he answered in a kind and soft voice, “I wish that I can help you but sorry, I have no idea. It is nice to know that you care about the trees in this woods. Maybe you could take a look around this place for some clues. By the way, I’m Steve Black, the fisherman.”
“Thanks, Mr. Black,” said Pomegranate. ” I am Pomegranatehael Alvernda. It’s very nice to meet you.”
They all went into the woods and inspected the trees around them. Then they reached an area where the thick bushes stopped them from going further. Suddenly they heard some rustling sound in the bushes. They stood back, scared and wondering what could it be. They were about to run away when they saw a man behind the bushes. He saw the children and walked out from the bushes.
He then walked towards them and introduced himself, “Hi, I am Rupert Alexender Marmet. I am a botanist from Australia. I am studying the plants in this woods. Do you like plants too?” They asked him a lot of questions and the kind botanist was happy to answer their questions. He showed them photos of some wonderful plants that he saw in the woods.
Then he asked them, “It seems that someone had cut down a lot of trees around the woods especially that area,” he said pointing to the area where they came from. “Do you know who did it and why?” The children told him that they were also asking the same questions too. The botanist said, “Well, I have to go now. I really enjoyed talking to all of you and hope that you can solve the mystery of who cut the beautiful trees and why; so that we can stop the person from destroying this beautiful woods. I hope we’ll meet again soon. Goodbye!”
“So, what’s next, Milk?” asked Pomegranate after Rupert left them.
“I think we’ll go and ask a friend of mine if he knows anything about what had happened in the woods as he lives nearby,” answered Milk. “It’s better to ask someone we know than someone we don’t.” And so they all went to the house of Milk’s German friend named Frederick. But he told them that he did not know much about it. He only read about it from a newspaper. Frederick explained that it was against the law to cut down trees in the woods.
Instead of giving them clues, he served them chocolate ice-cream that he made all by himself. The ice-cream was so delicious and creamy and the four children really enjoyed the tasty ice-cream. Soon, they said goodbye to Frederick and walked to a nearby riverbank to discuss about what had happened.
Suddenly they heard footsteps from behind them. They looked behind them but they could not see anything. After a while, they heard clattering noise from the woods across the river. They looked up and saw a few trees started to fall down to the ground on the other side of the river.