Treasures I have found

I found a wonderful quill for Arabella to do her wedding invitations with! I also found another piece of Eddingsville pottery to add to my collection. Angora was right about the sand sharks. As you can see I managed to knock out a few teeth when one tried to attack me. I must take a nap know as treasure hunting is tiresome.

Arabella"s Box Of Pumpkin Skins and Bobo BBQ

                    only an xlarge cowterpillar could carry this

WARNING SAND SHARKS

                   another victim and a nurse shark on scene
Be Dahlia,you are a victim of the sand shark . you will realize this when you try to stand up.I know this is shocking info but you are now one of millions of' '' short'' road tripsters'' [ now you know why it is called a short trip] that fall prey to the the sand shark and end up shorter. The attack happens very quickly and isn't even noticed until the victim try's to walk or stand. On rare occasions the victim doesn't notice the height difference until they look in a mirror or change clothes or buy new shoes . Skirts and pants are suddenly toooooo long,  dragging the ground. Worse, is when the victim  finds a great  pair of shoes but discovers they can't buy them because they don't come in the no feet size.Life as you knew it will be forever changed .But on a positive note  you can now audition for a little people reality show .

Now, to answer Arabella's question concerning my  age. After mom went to be with the invisible King I found a kinda of  strange birth certificate/paper  with a birth date  later than the one I had ,with king Carldeano listed as my  birth father. hmmmmmmmmmmmm

I am getting ready to go on a short road trip

I am headed out tomorrow to one of my favorite places. It is the Kingdom of Edisto. I will look for rare sea treasures to send to Arabella to fashion her most prized invitates with. Only the richest of brides can afford these so it will be of great benefit to Arabella. I will be taking my dear friend, Tawanda with me. She also suffers from horrible headaches so I try to take her to the peaceful seaside when I can so she can languish in the salt air and listen to the sea breeze. It can be healing in itself. It is a short 1 hour or so drive from my kingdom and I will be driving my miniature house so we will have a nice warm place to camp. We are far too old to be staying in a tent. We also need the comfort of a stove as we are far too fat to go hungry for very long. You know one gets used to certain things and eating is one of these things. They have no french orange donuts here- or anything even close to them so we will have to improvise.- with cookies, cakes and such. I hear they may be selling Girl Scout cookies at the local market. There is a local market that we pass that has home made key lime pie if they are open. They also have a pluff mud pie that is to die for. It is a seasonal market so it is probably closed this time of year. It is seasonal for fruits and veggies- these treats are just extras that they carry.We will partake in some local seafood while we are there- shrimp. UMMMMMMWe have caught blue crabs before when camping with Lady Sunshine and her family. The grandboys love to crab. It is an art that I was taught as a child by Queen Gertrude and King Carldean (our parents). You must tie a chicken neck to a string and weight it down. Toss it out during low tide and wait for a crab to start nibbling on it. SLOWLY pull the line in and net the crab. What a feast these make.

Not To Worry, I have all the answers because I

am the wisest of the sisterhood and the oldest but just how old is a mystery, but that's another story. Arabella was not run over by the bus.I checked the news reports.No bus run overs that day.And Bobo was not in her kingdom that day, so he couldn't have her phone . He has opened a BBQ eatery in Be Dehlia's kingdom.He is taking advantage of  all that wild hog Be Dahlia has hunted .I saw this in the news paper article she sent. So why hasn't  Be Dahlia heard from Arabella since the moment her bus came????  Well, the moment the bus door opened Arabella saw a large box next to the driver with her name on it. The driver smiled at her and said special delivery for you,Arabella '',designer of all things wedding invites.'' The box was toooo big for her to carry to her design studio by her self. so she had to find someone to help her. the bus kept driving around the block until she  found a trust worthy person to carry the box, you know, someone that wouldn't grab it and run because the box  smelled really good .She was finally able to secure help from a extra large cowterpilla she spotted sunning himself on a building roof. apparently  a few of his  many legs were hanging off the side of the building and she spotted them . Cowterpillars are known for their strength and helpfulness but they only provide it to people they like.Arabella owns a tiny cowterpilla so the extra large one really liked her and was willing to carry the box to her studio. all this took 4 days. 1 day to locate the help,1 day for the cowterpilla to climb down from the roof top.1 day for the bus to get gas because he ran out circling the block and 1 day for the cowterpillar to carry the box to the studio. ok, we are at day 5 , Arabella opens the box . SURPRISE !! on the top sat many pumpkin skins just waiting to be fashioned into invites.but wait, what about that delightful smell,hmmmmmm.Arabella carefully removed the pumpkin skins to discover 17 rubber boots each one stuffed with Bo Bo's BBQ ,it was still warm ! and you wonder why you haven't heard from her... she is eating BBQ and  designing invites. Now that we have cleared up this mystery lets move on to Arabella's question on the brides names. First, the mean bride - allow her to see the mug . then tell her to close her eyes and then bonk her on the head with it and tell her to open her eyes. after this  she will either be nice or leave, either way you win.  . and anyway anyone with that name other than you has stolen it. you can have her arrested . Next , the beautiful bride BoBo.did she smell like BBQ? show her the Be Dahlia mug , if she loves it ,you have much bigger problem !

Strange things in Arabella's kingdom...

As mentioned before, wedding season is in full swing in my kingdom and I am busier than ever. Waiting for a new shipment of supplies from BeDahlia but she is probably too busy hog hunting to gather supplies for me. Perhaps I could find a use for sweet potato skins if Angora is sucessful. I might be able to incorporate them in the weasels wedding celebration if they arrive soon enough. Now back to the stange happenings, last week one of my bride's gave me her name & her middle name was Arrabella-- yesterday a bride came in & her last name was BOBO. What is the universe trying to tell me? the Arabella bride is mean and crazy- the Bobo bride is beautiful & has a pseudo name. What does the sisterhood think this all means-- quick before my bus comes!

I am impressed

Is that Shelton who you are speaking of being your best pumpkin hunter? Very impressive. I was chatting with Arabella last night when she dissapeared again. She screamed "my bus is here". So I texted her and have not heard back. I hope she did not get run over by the bus. Certainly Bobo would tell us? He may just start sing her phone pretending to be her. Oh great, now we have to worry about that. Here we go back to the secret passwords again. I don't remember mine. What shall I ever do?