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.
