House Cleaning and Redwall

Lavender Forest is in a uproar, someone new is moving in this week and all the Hitty girls are cleaning the house. Sweeping and washing dishes. Polly sent Pepper and Crowby to clean up the old cottage for the new resident. 

The girls are chatting, Diane started singing an old song her mother used to sing while she worked, the girls had no idea what she was singing but it was a lovely tune.

Meanwhile...

At the Yellow Hat meeting the girls decided to read Redwall book, they started right away, and got pretty far in the book last night, Pepper just loved it, and sat very still while they were listening to it being read last night, Miss Michelle had the book on tape, so everyone got to listen. She couldn't stop talking about it all morning. 

So when Polly told her and Crowby to go down the road to the cottage and start cleaning, they snuck out to Miss Michelle's office and started watching Redwall on her laptop. They only dared to watch one episode of the cartoon, not wanting to get caught by the other Hitty girls.

They found a perfect sword laying on Miss Michelle's desk, after the movie, they took that with them when they walked down to the cottage, sword fighting acting out scenes from Redwall along the way, Pepper was Matthias the mouse and Crowby had to play King Bull Sparra.

Pepper has never been brave enough to fly on Crowby but he lets her ride on his back sometimes, they pretended to be flying in the air to go save the abby.

Pepper was so busy playing that she didn't hear her friends come into the cottage.

Crowby flew off and Pepper tried to hide the sword behind her back. Like they wouldn't see it. They made Pepper and Crowby start bringing in the furniture for the cottage, while the girls arranged it all for the future occupant. They had a special surprise they wanted to share with everyone.

After the room was finished it was time for some refreshments. The girls forgave Hitty Pepper and Crowby, the two really worked hard to make up for playing around when they should have been helping out. Violet brought over her grandmother's tea set and served up some delicious herbal tea for everyone. They were celebrating getting the cottage finished, they all worked really hard today. Also... 

Happy 35th Wedding Anniversary Miss Michelle! With Love... Your girls, Hitty Pepper, Crowby, Polly, Diane and Violet.

Finding The Perfect Trunk at The Annual Yard Sale In Lavender Forest!

Every year Lavender Forest has a big Yard Sale and the whole community gets involved. Me and Crowby stopped at our favorite place, the Second Hand Rose Thrift Shop. We really didn't have anything in mind, but Crowby flapped his wing and move some old rugs and under all that I found a wonderful Trunk!

"Look what you found Crowby! It's just what I've been looking for a Trunk to put all my things inside."

"Plenty of room in the trunk, don't you think Crowby."

"It's so big I can sit inside of it. This will be perfect for trunk for the  Hittygirls Challenge too!" 

It was a fun day at the yard sale and next year I bet it will be even bigger.

Pen Pal From Russia

I have a Pen Pal in Russia, I know it's not very popular now, with the internet and everything, but I've been friends with Hitty Diane for many years now and we like to write long letters to each other. It's just something we like to do. Well,  my friend...Crowby! Please stop bumping into my pen, your making me mess up! Yep, I finally named him with some help of a friend. ;-) 

So back to my story, in my last letter from my friend Hitty Diane, she said she is going to come to Lavender Forest and stay with me for the whole summer! I'm so excited! I'm writing back to let her know that we can't wait. Hope she's not afraid of Crowby.

Hitty Pepper

Hitty Pepper Meets a Crow

My first day at Lavender Forest was a little more than I bargained for, I decided to take a look outside. I'm admiring the Lavender flowers and all the sudden I hear this terrible noise, it was so loud I just had to see what was going on.

I saw a bird that had his leg all tangled up in some wines, he was so scared and flapping all around, screaming and squawking. I just had to do something to help the poor thing. 

I wasn't scared of climbing up that high, what I was worried about was if the bird would knock me down as I was trying to get him untangled, finally I was able to get ahold of the vine and unwrap it from his foot, he was very still as I worked, thank goodness.

The Crow was finally free and It looked like he was pretty happy about it too, Poor thing. Then I went back to exploring the place again.

I have the feeling I'm being followed. Surely that bird will go home, he's just curious I suppose.

He thinks I don't know that he's spying on me, crazy bird. I wish he would go home.

Maybe if I show him the bird feeder he will stay here and he will forget about me.

No such luck! Here he is again. I can see you behind the chain. I'll just slip in the thrift shop and maybe he'll go away.

No you crazy bird, you can't come inside the shop! Ah, he really likes me. Maybe I can find a place for him to stay with me.

Hitty Pepper