Nightime adventures in an English garden

Last night upon returning from taking the babysitter home, I walked into my garden to find a large, brown critter in the center of my patio.  My  heart plummeted.  For a split second I thought General Rat had returned...and grown!  "MWC!!" I squealed as calmly as I could.

Then I noticed the tail, or lack thereof.  Huge sigh of relief.  So while I waited for MWC to come "rescue" me I worked on my nonchalance. "Come look at this cool hedgehog," I calmly said as he FINALLY came outside. (I'd have died of a heart attack had it been a rat so fast was my knight in shining armor!)

Mr. HH had waddled over to the side of the patio by now.  I could just imagine him thinking,"if I stay very, very still, she won't see me."  But he was wrong, and I did.  MWC stood guard while I ran and got the camera.

As we came into the house, MWC asked me suspiciously, "so did you call me to see the cute hedgehog or to rescue you from a rat?"  And men say they can't read their wives minds!

A Fairy Tale

Once upon a time, two fair maidens studied music together at college.  They became bosom buddies and just like sisters.  Swan Maiden suggested to her brother Prince Clone Charming that her friend Fair Ginger Maiden might be just the princess he was looking for but he was not interested....at first.  He eventually came to his senses and realized what his beloved little sister already knew...Fair Ginger Maiden is a beauty inside and out and was just the woman for him.

Prince Clone Charming knew he wanted to marry Fair Ginger Maiden, but alas, he was called off for an adventure in a far off distant land so had to wait.  After 7 months apart, they were reunited in England, where he proposed, and she accepted.

And now, not only are Swan Maiden and Fair Ginger Maiden bosom buddies, they will soon be sisters as well.  And... as photographic evidence suggests, Swan Maiden is already fulfilling the pesky little sister role quite nicely.