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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
Leprechaun's dancing in the mall.![Merit Badge in BCoF 2
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Congratulations on your virtual blogging adventure!](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-BCoF_2-1901868_14.gif) HI.Hello, Susi slow down. What's wrong. I have Susi listed on phone favorites and my phone was quick to answer her call. She was talking so fast I could not understand her words and she sounded almost breathless as she garbled her words. " Say again?" I questioned. "Leprechaun dancing in the mall I saw them. Then they vanished," she replied much slower. "They or one I questioned," Must be a joke for St. Patrick's I thought. "I didn't count but more than one for sure." She answered. "O.K. I'll be right down." I jumped in my car and headed for the mall. Our mall is a little shopping center on the edge of town. It has 6 stores. On the left 3 and on the right 3; facing each other with a semi park in the center. Lots of benches to sit on. Even a picnic table or two with thick spongy grasses making up a lawn and young trees for shade. Of course, when I arrived Susi was waiting for me. As I exited the car, she ran up to me. "Where are the little green men? I joked." " I don't know exactly now," she commented. "But they were playing tag a few minutes ago around all those trees over there. I hope they come back so you can see them. They were smaller than I thought they would be." "Let's catch some. I have just the thing," I laughed. I rummaged in the trunk of my car. "Aha, here it is." I brought out a small box. "Come on, just show me which trees they were playing near closest." I followed her over to several bushes and trees growing in a close clump. Putting down the box, I took out a small green leprechaun's hat with a hole in the center of the top. I looked down into the box, "Here it is," I exclaimed. A small sign, painted yellow with black words inscribed said," FREE GOLD INSIDE." I put the sign into a pretty yellow hat band that wound around the brim of the hat We left the area, walked to the front of one of the stores that had a beverage cart selling sodas and energy drinks. Susi wanted a drink, so I bought us both a cold cocoanut water. We sat down on a bench. "How long do you think it will take to catch one," she asked. "I'm Pretty sure not long. They like gold." "How does the trap work? Won't they be angry if there isn't any gold." "I wouldn't do that to a Leprechaun. There are a couple small gold nuggets in the hat. If they jump into the hole in the top of the hat there is a trap door that closes so they can't get out. Besides, there is a small window on one side of the hat we can see in. You know we have to turn them loose very quickly. It would not be nice to keep them locked up in there." "Can we check it now?" "O.K." We walked back to the grove of bushes and trees where we left the hat. "Look right in there." I pointed to a small window in the side under the sign. Sure, enough there was a little man dressed in green jumping up and down and stuffing the gold nuggets into his pocket. "Flip that switch." I pointed to a little switch by the hole in the hat. Out jumped the little man. He waved his hand and yelled in a squeaky little voice, "Thanks for the gold," and POP! he disappeared into thin air. I picked up the Leprechaun trap and stored it back in the box. Susi and I walked back to my car. "Come on I'll give you a ride home." "On the ride home Susi asked, "How come you have a Leprechaun trap?" "Just one of those odds and ends people keep around for emergencies." THE END SEE YA! apondia#1781748 apondia#1781748 |
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