A scroll of many colors is on its way!

Thank you  sar_anonfor this exciting link! http://www.elfquest.com/edits/WendyWords_07_09_08.html

I'm doing the happy elf dance!  Two years...I wonder if I can diet down enough to fit my Winnowill dress again for the premier...

Irrefutible logic

 Last night, I was sitting reading a book in my bedroom, when my darling daughter came in and said "Momma kin has pretty necklace."  (LOL cats, rejoice in that grammar, which is at least an original sentence and not a quote.)

She then said "Momma needs earrings match," and chose from my earring tree a pair of dragon earrings holding pearls, which in fact match the pendant pondside gave me beautifully.  Instead of giving them to me, however, she went in front of my mirror and hung them from the tops of her ears by the hooks.  She returns to me.

"I kin has necklace," she says winningly.

"Why should I give you my necklace?"  I ask.

"Because I have earrings!"  she says. 

Zombie Snake Queen

 The kittehs hunted down and killed a small garden snake inside our house.  I expect it got in through the drain in the basement;  we've had little snakes down there hunting earwigs and spiders before.

The boys found it in the kitchen this morning, full of bites and luckily for my fortitude, already dead.

When the kids I'm watching for the summer arrived, I was showing the snake outside to one of them who'd expressed interest in the dustpan I'd put it in.  About the time the child said "Is it really Dead?  What if it came back to Life?"  a large, nasty spider crawled on my sandal and surprised me.  I looked down when I felt the tickle, and shrieked with surprise, and the pan bounced in my hand, making the snake flop as if it were alive again.  The child shrieked in terror, thinking for just a moment that it *had* come alive again and was out for revenge.

I couldn't have planned a better practical joke if I'd tried.