Indoor/Outdoor Wednesday: Veggie Tale

Today is another beautiful Outdoor Wednesday with my friend Susan of A Southern Daydreamer. This is the day that we all get together to share our views of the great outdoors. Only today I'm going to take liberties with my post and share a little tale that has to do with a big thank-you for a blog drawing I won from one of my first blogging friends, Jane Marie of Thyme For Herbs. So if you would suspend your disbelief for a moment and join me on my jaunt, I would be ever so pleased to have you accompany me on this Indoor/Outdoor Wednesday.



My tale starts with a wonderful package that I couldn't wait to open. For you see, inside the package were tiny little clay vegtables that traveled all the way from a very special clay vegetable patch in Michigan...



A basket filled to overflowing with carrots, another basket of Idaho potatoes, and two heads of cabbage arrived at Port Magpie's loading dock in perfect order...



I immediately rang for assistance, and the dock workers hopped right on it...



Hip, here, loaded up the cabbages and potatoes...





While Hop loaded up the carrots...



[Note: You can tell they are working in an industrial area with the power lines in the background. Mr. Magpie has remedied that situation with underground cable i.e. an extra battery for the camera!]



Then together...



The Bunnies of Bronze shouldered their loads and were off to deliver the bounty...



They traveled through the Bunny-on-a-Stick Meadow...



And followed one bunny who looked like he knew where he was hopping...



When they reached the second crossing, the Bunnies of Bronze parted company with Mr. Green Genes and headed on their way...



After wandering around in circles (as male bunnies often do), the Bunnies of Bronze stopped to get what passed for directions from a group of artists preparing for next Easter...



And within minutes, Hip and Hop miraculously found themselves in front of a very large, very yellow two-story house [with flower boxes on the second story windows and a fine white damask piazza in front]...



The rabbits screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeched to a halt.



"This look like the place?" said Hip to Hop.



"Well, there's only one way to find out!" said Hop to Hip.



And with that, the rabbits approached the door...



"Hey, Mom!" shouted a voice from inside. "You won't believe who's outside!"



"Well if it's the vacumn cleaner salesman, tell him he can have the one back he sold me last year, the one that managed to suck down all the drapes and rip off my false eyelashes, but didn't pick up a single speck of dirt from the carpet!"



But that last command went unheeded as the doors were flung open wide to reveal a small boy and a woman inside...



[a woman who was clearly having a very-big, very-bad hair day]...



"This the Small residence? "said Hip to the boy.



Barely able to contain his excitement at the sight of the Bunnies of Bronze, the boy exclaimed, "Yes! Yes it is!"



"Well that figures, because you're definitely small," chuckled Hip.



"No, no, no," said the boy, "I'm not Definitely Small. That would be my uncle who lives across town. I'm Hesa Small, and my sister Shesa Small is upstairs in her room in timeout."



"What did she do?" asked Hip.



"A little of this and a lot of that," said Hesa. "But mainly, she accidentally tore up the staircase by sliding down the banister with a couple of bowling balls tied to her feet to make her go faster."



"Well, how do you like that, Hop?!" said Hip. "This sounds like your kinda place!"



"Oh," the boy continued excitedly, "and my mom... this is my mom Ima Small....got really, really mad and sent Shesa into permanent Timeout, permanent that is until Dad... his name is Youra Small... can figure out a way to fix things from the upstairs down. He's kinda trapped up there in his study. We have to send them food in a basket tied to a rope."



"Well, it looks like we got here just in the nick of time with the grub and the basket," declared Hop, "but we didn't know to bring rope!"



"That's okay," said Hesa. "Dad'll just use the sheets to make a rope. He's an Eagle Scout!"



And with that, Hop handed the basket of carrots to Hesa...



"Oh, boy! Mom loves carrots," said Hesa, "but mostly she likes them in carrot cake!" Then Hesa turned and looked in Hip's direction, and as he did he declared, "But what I really love is French fries."



"I think I can oblige," said Hip, "Or at least I've got the potatoes, but you have to turn them into fries!"



And with a grunt or two and a heave-ho, Hip put down his load of potatoes and cabbage at Hesa's feet...



And the Smalls thanked the Bunnies of Bronze who went merrily on their way to do whatever it is that Bunnies of Bronze do when they finish work. And Hesa? Well, Hesa had his French fries while Ima enjoyed a delicious slice of carrot cake. Youra got a big plate of his favorite Copper Penny Carrots for strength to tackle what was left of the staircase...



But Shesa was nowhere to be found...



A couple of tell-tale signs, like a lamp in the middle of the kitchen floor...



And a missing dessert...



Or two...



Or three...



Tell us all we need to know.

But who can really blame Shesa???

And you know what else?

My friend Cecelia and I will never tell.



The question is...



"Will YOU?" ;-)



Many thanks to Jane Marie for these wonderful veggies that have made their way into the Smalls' world and Cecelia's as well. She thanks you, they thank you, and I do, too...



If you'd like some of these adorable little veggies, please visit Jane Marie at her blog Thyme For Herbs. She has wonderful miniatures for doll houses in her etsy shop there.

And thank you, too, Susan, for always being such a gracious hostess on Outdoor Wednesday!



For more Outdoor Wednesday posts, please follow the bunny trail over to Susan's blog by clicking here. And lastly, thanks SO much for visiting me today. I look forward to visiting you at your blog in return. I hope you know that Cecelia and I think you're the very best! :-)



Warmly,


Mrs. Magpie (Sheila)