Did mine a couple of years ago after reading an article about the potential for lead in soils in residential areas.
Thankfully my yard is fine, only the drip line of the house shows elevated lead (probably was originally painted with lead paint). So we just won't put food plants in the beds next to the house.
I've never had a scarecrow wrecked. Can that actually happen?
Hawaii... rofl
The more of the Cosmere you read, the more things will connect and the clearer the picture will be. Every time I re-read SA, I see new connections I'd missed before. Some of that is familiarity with the magics of other planets, because that changes your read from "character did a weird thing" to "hey! that's magic from this other planet; why/how has it turned up here?"
In the earlier books, the crossovers between worlds/magics and the underlying "how things work" are more subtle and you'll miss things on first read. In more recent books, it's more overt.
Some of that is because of how much the protagonists themselves understand. For example, in the first Mistborn trilogy the characters really don't understand what's going on on their own planet, so of course you don't get a good explanation. In Secret History, the POV character does run into people who know quite a lot about what is going on, so when Secret History revisits the events of the main trilogy you're able to understand the forces driving those catastrophic events.
The characters in SA started off thinking magic wasn't real and knowing nothing about realms and worlds beyond their own. They are learning a lot through their spren and Hoid, but there is still a lot that they don't know. And you as the reader are learning along with them.
The training rod is definitely not a new addition. I used it in my first game a couple of years ago because I found fishing too hard. There was a dialogue where Willy asked me how I was finding the fishing, and one of my options to reply was "it's too hard". Then he told me to buy the training rod. I don't know if it was available before that; I never looked. But try talking to Willy when you see him and maybe it will come up?
The lake outside the mine is a good place to start. You get carp there, and sometimes they never leave the position your bar starts in, so you don't even have to do anything to catch them - free XP!
Prequel to Wall-E.
You can boil them to extend shelf life. Once a food is cooked, you have another week (approximately) to use it before it goes off - maybe a little longer for eggs still in unbroken shells. Boil them, store them in the fridge, and add them to meals over the next week.
I just finished Dragonsteel Prime. I read Way of Kings Prime when it was released (so: not recently). Dragonsteel (canon) hasn't been written yet, so I'm not sure what you want to compare DP to?
Brandon has commented that Dragonsteel (Prime) never got published because the story didn't really work. Some elements of it eventually turned up in Stormlight, of course.
I enjoyed both Prime books as a look at early versions of characters, settings, and magics. Reading WoKP after several Stormlight books, it was a little jarring to have a character die in Prime who is very much alive (as of SA4). DP didn't do that to me; and as much as Brandon says there's an early version of Shallan in that book, it felt like a wholly different character. I quite enjoyed getting to know Frost a little bit, and seeing early Hoid.
If you already have the cheese on hand, do an experiment. Cut off a piece and freeze it overnight. Next day, defrost it and see how it is. Because the issue you're concerned about is change to texture or taste after freezing and thawing, you only need to leave it long enough to be fully frozen through - not as long as you normally would for storage.
(You wouldn't want to buy a bulk size piece of meat/cheese just to experiment, but if you already have some on hand it's worth trying for yourself to find out if you'll find the result satisfactory.)
Shipping costs for the set bundles are listed on the campaign page. If you want add-ons, that will be extra and calculated later.
It does say somewhere that Dragonsteel will cover import duties for all international backers.
So really, the only unknown is shipping for add-ons. If shipping cost is a stress, maybe stick to the bundles with fixed shipping costs?
This weekend? Already?
Boo. I don't know if I can get there.
Thank you! Definitely would have missed it without the heads-up. Now I have a chance.
Slice and dehydrated some!
Dehydrated mushies can be kept (long shelf life) to add to meals. Or put them through a food processor to make a powder (takes up much less space, if that's an issue for you) which is great for extra flavour in soups, sauces, casseroles, etc.