Squawking like a "nightengale chicken"

You know the story of the Princess and the Pea, right? We saw the "real" story last night, though, in a play presented by local actors and actresses. Interesting stuff! It turns out that the princess was the 13th in a long line of princesses and the "nightengale" sounded more like a chicken. AND the chicken laid an egg! The basics were there, but not that nightengale chicken. No, not that.

After the play, the Dv and I were walking to the van. I started tickling him and he practically sang, "Noooo, Stooop Iiiiit!" It sounded just like the chicken from the play. Caaaaw Caaaaaw Caaaaaw... We all had a great laugh out of that - even Dv when he remembered that it's ok to laugh at yourself, too.

We started the afternoon off with a lovely tea. Nana laid it all out pretty on the deck, though we both forgot the Creme' Caramel Tazo that we were waiting to share until we were already drinking a Honey Rooibus (say: "roy-bus"). We found some delightful tarts at Freddie's though, with strawberries, blackberries, and blueberries piled high, covered with that delightfully sugary red strawberry flavored glaze. Around the bottom of the tart were 1/3 chocolate chips, 1/3 chocolate shavings, and 1/3 almonds. Where Dv completely agrees with me that nuts shouldn't be sweet, D rather enjoyed hers until she got hold of just the glaze. D doesn't like just the glaze. Nana and I thought that quite odd, considering what it tastes like to our "taste bugs."

Afterward, we started getting ready for the play. Dinner first - but Yenna stole half of Daphne's dinner, as she left it unattended. Dogs will be dogs! So, we got to have croissants with cream cheese - yummm!

We didn't get home until 10:30 and I wouldn't be up so dang early, if not for yesterday being the veggie day for the dogs and they wanted their meat meal NOW. lol. So, I'm up waiting for them to finish that so I can go back to bed.

I have no idea what we have planned for today, but there's lots of stuff to do to get ready for our Halloween party yet. And today is supposed to be a nice toasty warm day. Perhaps we'll take our pups and go find an empty field to run in, then settle down for a nice luncheon. Maybe Dv can take some of his airplanes and fly them about.

Think the huckleberries are ready for picking right now?