On a cloudy afternoon, a girl set out for an escape. An adventure. A short voyage out of this world and into the tales found in the little yellow fairy book...
She carried with her a few fading petals and two bits of taffy. There was a great old apricot tree that billowed out, its branches gracing the ground. She crawled into a nook, under the tree branches...
What a delightful spot of earth, thought she...
She opened the book randomly, as the pages chose the tale of The Golden Crab for her...
She was positively enamored with this hidden little place, and moments to escape...
She unwrapped her taffy, humming into the breeze. Which piece would she nibble? Two might cause a grand sugar headache...
While lost in the tale she was reading, she heard a faint noise in the distance...
It sounded like a gallop of hooves? Oh no, could it be the wild beasts of the forest? Oh yes it could be indeed!
A beast came charging towards her, and jumped right on top of her -
Eek ouch, hey, get off me...
But wait, there is a second one!
"Yippeeee woooo, attackkkkkk" exclaimed the littler of the beasts...
The beasts were so odd, they actually sniffed, yes sniffed, her book ;)
"What's that, what's that, let's play, let's play let's play" they said, as though they had each had two pots of coffee...
They even tried to steal her shoes, but dropped them on the way out...
Luckily, they didn't find the sweets, or she would have had to have chased them down. She collected her items, deciding to take her little party inside the cottage. Alas, she could still see the beasts through the trees...
She ran past them as fast as she could and into the cottage, phew safe...
She decided to have her own little calm crochet tea party for one on a Friday night. Ginger and honey and lemon, Yumm...
She could hear the beasts outside tackling each other, and barking viciously at an old man on a walk who actually enjoyed taunting the pups (often). Oops, I mean beasts...
The girl was now happy and peaceful inside, reading her fairy tales. In the middle of Miss Muffet, she heard the furry creatures crying outside. Both of them crying and whining, which was more than quite unusual.
The older of the two would never whine and cry, and the littlest rarely did himself.
After this went on for a bit, the girl decided to go check things out, even though she might be trampled again...
What could it be asks you and me?
Seems, the furry beasts are actually HUGE babies. They bark at coyotes and chase off roadrunners and bob cats - But goodness forbid, the tale (rhyme) of little Miss Muffet might come to life.
They stood huddled on the office porch, whining at a creature far from them, in the dirt...
She thought the furry beastlings were supposed to be protecting her, ha!
So she picked up the spider, that scared Miss Muffet and Baby and that little whippersnapper Matisse-
And, with a simple relocation, off went the spider to sit down beside someone else, and bring fairy tales to life ~ with a twist ;)
Poor spiders, they have been given such a bad reputation, even in the dog world it seems. Didn't everyone love Charlotte though, I ask? Sniffle sniffle...
I don't know how a forest retreat and tea turned into spider tales ;) But it did. With that I must be off to feed those lovely little beastlings of mine...
See you soon ;)
♥,V
ps: Mister Lovee and I have an ongoing joke, that Matty is actually a miniature German Shepherd (which would actually be adorable). He was the runt of the litter, and I will be curious to see how big he gets. He seems to have grown a tiny bit and stopped. Of course, he will keep growing for two years. But still, we are enjoying our little joke, especially since Mister wanted a big tough dog to protect me ;) I keep joking and saying, no wonder he was only twenty bucks ;) Of course, I adore him, and don't care if he stays just the size he is or gets huge. Either way, he is loved beyond words and brings us all great joy. Oh and did I mention, he has an attitude? He doesn't like to be bothered by boring humans, especially ones who want to kiss on him like crazy ;)