Zoe’s Back, Surprises
in Swampland
To say we made a soft landin after the long hard trip
across, would be an out and out lie. But I dont wanna whine or nothin first
thing in the mornin so I’ll try to lay it out gently.
We arrived at longleaf lane at noon on september 24 2014. Im
thinkin, nice enough name...and im thinkin, this is where heather and todd toss
out all them great meatonthebone prizes, aint it?! And im also thinkin ‘get me
outta this van, people!”
So we all pile out the van and the truck from Africa.
Everybody’s joints is makin loud clickin sounds, I thought it was bugs in the
woods next to the house, but it wasnt.
Speakin a the woods next to the house, that’s what ole elizabeth
calls the greenway and me and mischa we call it the snake-infested-alligator-hotel.
Its a point a contention in the new house...
Anyways, since we all been cooped up for so long the girls
wasted no time emptyin that African truck out, so there’s boxes and furniture
and paintins flyin in all the doors they could find.
Suddenly I hear a big yelpin sound comin out from behind the
house. My hearts racin, I think its Mischa maybe met up with one a them
prehistoric dinosaurs or somethin, cause our neighbor todd he had a big ole 10
foot gator in his yard last year! So everybody drops whatever they had in their
hands and runs around the back. A huge cloud a sand blew up into the air as we
all screeched on our brakes and pulled up to a big lake that Mischa was standin
in! A big lake that wasnt there when we left last year, and a big lake that
seemed to be seriously thinkin about crossin the threshold into mischa’s
studio!
Ole Misha she was madder than a hatter, she was runin her
fingers through her hair and spalshin around in the lake. She had a big bucket
in one hand and a rectangle in the other pleadin with someone who none of us
could see, and who seemed to be stuck inside the rectangle!
Roxy and Laura and Elizabeth all grabbed buckets and shovels
and pipes and brooms and started movin the lake this way and that, tryin to
coax it away from the house.
Now havin Roxy here made it all real interestin cause she
can outpace Mischa by lightyears. And she can wring her hands and twirl her
hairs and grind her teeths with the best a them, tryin to chew on somethin till
she comes up with the perfect solution. So that there was its own spectacle!
Too bad sally wasnt here to watch her mom’s outstanding performance!
As Mischa knows, I dont take kindly to water, so I sorta
kept my distance from the whole thing.
That was a big plus for me too, cause Mischa had no idea how many
meatonthebones old todd and heather had left me at the edge of the so called
greenway. I had quite the unsupervised feast! Anyways after about two weeks of
foolin around with the thing some big noisy guy full a hisself comes along and
builds us somethin called a swale. Cept he dint know it was a swale and he kept
callin in a swell. Whatever, turns out the lake dried up and this part a the
story had a happy ending!
I got a lot more to tell, so until later...later!
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