Oh, you always did the tricky or time consuming prep work first: sifting the flour before starting with the mixing. Her clothes weren't complicated: just sneakers, jeans and panties, counting from the feet up. She bent her knees obligingly to allow for the unshoeing.

"Arr, I be on that wheel as surely as ye be," (the reference did in fact make sense to her, if of a somewhat abstruse kind) "and if I be smilin' 'tis only the spinnin' makin' me dizzy." She sat up a little bit more so she could kiss him again.