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10/31/05
And then the conversation was further interrupted by two gigantic bird like though also bat like creatures who swooped in the open window and one grabbed Princess Gwendolyn and the other grabbed Mildred. Then the two creatures promptly flew off.

A few minutes elapsed and Princess Gwendolyn was the first to get over her surprise and she said in a calm, quiet, and refined tone, “I wonder where they are taking us?”

“Wherever they are taking us,” Mildred replied, “I hope we get back in time for that tournament.” and from her tone of voice one could infer that she meant exactly what she said.

“I’m sure someone will notice that we’re missing and come to find us.” Princess Gwendolyn said. However at that moment the bird like bat like creatures changed their flight path and began flying across the sea.

“I wish we were going over land.” Princess Gwendolyn said out loud for the billowing waves beneath her did not look inviting if she were dropped. Also she was aware of the rather uncomfortable fact that learning how to swim had not been part of her education as a princess.

“I know how to swim.” Mildred said reassuringly, “But one of the scientist at our court was saying something about water being very hard when one falls on it from a great height. I don’t remember why though but there was some scientific theory involved.”

“It would be rather hard to look it up now.” Princess Gwendolyn said, “And I do hope we shan’t experience it.” There was silence for some time after this for their captor’s speed had increased and the wind or the rush of the air past them made talking difficult. After a while they could see a small speck in the middle of the ocean that looked like a small speck in the middle of the ocean. However as time passed it grew steadily larger and larger until they could see that it was an island of sorts.

“It’s an island!” Mildred shouted out about two minutes after Princess Gwendolyn was certain that it was. Princess Gwendolyn did not reply for shouting was quite unprincesslike and it was required to shout in order to be heard.

The creatures began slowing down eventually and once they were directly over the island they began a spiral path downwards. Princess Gwendolyn was too dizzy to carefully take note of the geography of the place but Mildred noticed that there were no ships on the shores and no buildings save a large castle on the topmost hill of the island. It was an unpleasant looking place and was made of a very dark stone and all the pinnacles of the castle looked as though they were sharpened.

All around the island were lots and lots of trees that also were dark, the leaves almost looking black. There was nothing pleasantly colored on the island that could be seen from the air, and even the water around the island looked unpleasantly green.

By the time Mildred had finished making her observations they were almost to the castle and a moment later they were dropped on to the topmost turret. Princess Gwendolyn then got up as gracefully as a princess can who has been dropped ten feet onto stone by a monstrous bird and bat like creature and Mildred attempted to imitate her but with little success. And then they waited while I checked to see if I had written my quota yet. I had.

In order of height and age, Daniel, John, Andrew, and a last but not least, me Elizabeth.

I enjoy dressing up. I’m not sure about my brothers though but they enjoyed any excuse to hold weaponry.

28/10/05
As I have found so far in this story one merely has to keep typing and eventually inspiration will come. However it also means that there will be some pointless writings before the story really gets going which is why I would prefer to immediately start writing something brilliant but oh well.

Since writing yesterdays page I decided to post the days on Bethjoy.com as I go along. So that is probably where you are reading this and if you are starting here you might want to go back and read the previous post first. If you’ve already read that post then congratulations!!!

I suppose I’d better get back to the story. Princess Gwendolyn is eagerly anticipating her seventeenth birthday, or actually maybe it should be nineteenth? Although I would have no object to a seventeen year old beautiful princess having a romance my mother might. Or perhaps it’s her tenth birthday but she was born on the last day of February on a leap year so she is, in fact, going to be forty years old though it will have only been her tenth birthday. However though forty is quite mature it seems a slight bit old for a beautiful fairy tale princess still to be single. Unless she was trapped very far away from eligible princes or knights it would be very unaccountable.

So perhaps it should be her twenty-first birthday and though that is pushing it age wise for a dazzlingly beautiful princess to still be single there might be a law against getting married before that age. So we shall assume that to be the case.

Therefore Princess Gwendolyn is eagerly expecting the arrival of her twenty-first birthday and her birthday party which is going to be of special magnificence and her birthday cake which is to be made with twenty-one layers and the arrival of her dear cousin Mildred who somehow managed to be plain looking though that is not the reason why Gwendolyn is looking forward to her arrival.

I don’t know why but I think that the name Mildred suggests plainness in face and greatness in age although I’m sure why. I’m sure there have been many lovely Mildreds but I’ve never met any. We shall assume that Mildred has just arrived at the palace and is about to see her dear cousin and the following takes place.

“My dear cousin Mildred! How nice to see you! How are you?” Princess Gwendolyn said in the most genteel and pleasant manner imaginable.

“I’m doing well.” Mildred said in a manner that implied that she was just saying it because it was the proper sort of of reply and that she really wasn’t doing well at all though he health was in good order.

“How splendid!” Princess Gwendolyn said in a way that implied that she was glad her dear cousin was in good health but was rather sorry to hear that in other respects she was less than satisfied. “How was your voyage here?” she further inquired.

“We had a pleasant voyage.” Mildred said in a way that implied that other than her being seriously seasick for the entire voyage it had gone well and they had had fair whether all of the way.

“And how are your parents? They are doing well I hope?” Princess Gwendolyn replied in a manner that implied that the sooner they were off the subject of seasickness the sooner it would be forgotten and on land such things were to be forgotten.

“My father is doing well but my mother is ill. My father deeply expressed his regrets that he could not attend your birthday party and my mother also sends her but her ill health keeps them both at home.” Mildred said in a manner that implied that she was glad to forget being seasick for otherwise she would start feeling a little woozy but it was certainly nice to be on land again wasn’t it? And fish dinners can get so tiresome.

“I’m sorry that they could not come but with your mothers poor state of health I certainly would not expect it. I hope that she shall be well again soon.” Princess Gwendolyn said in a manner that implied that anything if eaten too much of can become very tiresome and fish always tastes so fishy that even in small quantities occasionally it is none the worse for a change but it’s quite a different thing with chocolate.

“Yes, the doctors are hoping that she shall be up and about again before Christmas.” Mildred said as though to say that she just loved chocolate and could go on eating for days and days and it was one of the few things that she could think about eating at the moment.

“What exactly ails your mother?” Princess Gwendolyn said as though to say that she also could eat large amounts of chocolate for longs periods of time but wouldn’t do so as it would be detrimental on her figure and that she was quite sorry to hear that her dear cousin’s appetite had not yet returned and might it be a good idea to sit down?

“She has pneumonia.” Mildred said as she sat down and her words and actions implied that she did think it was nicer to sit down than stand up and weren’t the feather chairs very comfortable.

“Pneumonia! How unfortunate.” Princess Gwendolyn said as she too sat down and she implied by her words and motions that yes, the feather chairs were certainly quite comfortable but eventually they lost somewhat of their fullness and had to be re-stuffed with fresh feathers from the palace poultry.

“Oh yes, she has not been out of bed for a week.” Mildred said and her tone of voice implied that the palace poultry must have a lot of feathers and that it probably would be quite interesting to see a chair stuffed.

“Fancy! Was she much ill before she took to her bed?” Princess Gwendolyn said implying that there was a lot of palace poultry and that she herself had never seen a chair stuffed with feathers but that it probably wasn’t as interesting as watching a grand tournament.

“Yes, she was feeling ill for nearly a week before she decided to stay in bed.” Mildred replied and her tone of voice indicated that she too enjoyed watching tournaments and she hoped that their might possibly be one while she was visiting the palace.

“Has Doctor Rolthmar attended her?” Princess Gwendolyn said and her tone implied that that there was going to be a grand tournament held in honor of her birthday the day after the event and the preliminary beginnings of the tournament were to happen on her birthday.

“Yes, he came last week when my mother first decided to remain in bed. and has often been back since.” Mildred replied in a way which expressed her pleasure at the idea of the forthcoming tournament.

At this moment there conversation was interrupted by my realizing that I had written not one page but two pages worth today and that is quite enough for now.

Just a few words before the episodes. I started writing a new story the day before yesterday and it is supposed to be the story to write on when I don’t feel like writing on anything else. It’s main purpose and function is to give me something to write a page a day on. I was telling Daniel about it and he said that I ought to post the daily episodes on here as I write them so I think I will. Bear in mind that I may never complete this story and it may never get much more coherant than it is now but I hope it’s at least a little bit amusing.

10/26/2005
A Story That Might Be Interesting
Rambled Together by Elizabeth Joy Von Fange

Chapter One

This story began with an entry on my daily to do list. It said “Write one page on story”. However it didn’t specify which story. For the first two days of this I merely wrote miscellaneous bits and peaces in various places but when Wednesday rolled around I decided that I really should be writing on just one story. So this is the story I decided on writing and what will happen and how it will and who the characters will be I currently have no clue. But it should end happily since I like happy endings very much.

Now in case you are wondering who is talking since most openings that start in a personal narrative sort of way usually have the main character doing the talking and I just lost the thread of this sentence so I’ll go back to the beginning. I’m not the main character of this book. The last book I wrote I was the main character but that was bothersome because since I am too young for romance(according to my mother) I couldn’t have any in the book and I think it would be really fun to do a book where the main character can fall in love and get married and live happily ever after as well as having a lot of other things happen to them and they might be able to do things that I probably wouldn’t. After all, one doesn’t really know how one would handle situations until one is faced by them. However their is no rule that says I can’t base the main character off myself:)

You know, actually I don’t think I mentioned what I was going to say at all so I’d better do it at once and not waste further time. My name is Elizabeth Joy Von Fange and I have a website called Bethjoy.com where I post most of my writings and write a lot of posts on and I ramble freely. If you like this story you may like my website and visa versa although I can’t really guarantee it because at the moment I really have no clue about what this story is going to be like. But it might just be a fairy tale sort of story since I like fantasy and fairy tales and dragons and beautiful princesses and humor. Not that fairy tales and fantasy always have humor but when I write them they do, or they ought to.

As I mentioned in the first paragraph I’m supposed to be writing at least one full page on a story a day therefore at the moment I’m merely typing to fill my quota. This whole story will probably be typing to fill the quota so if you see some things that are obviously just in there to fill space you will know why. Conversations where each person only says about a sentence or so and that goes on for a while takes up a lot of space. Poetry does too.

I suppose I probably should turn my attention to the story itself now. I’ll be telling the story of course so you already have met the most important character, me the narrater or story teller or whatever you wish and desire to call me providing it is complimentary. But there ought to be a main character in the story unless we(and I don’t know who I mean by “we” but it sounds less self centered than using “I” and I don’t really want to seem self center but I’m the youngest in my family and I have three older brothers and I am slightly spoiled therefore I kind of have to work at not being too self centered. I also should probably work at sticking with the point but so far there isn’t one.)

Now where was I? One problem with writing is that it’s really easy to forget what one just wrote and being that I have horrible vision I can’t go back and read what I’ve already written without great difficulty since from the distance I’m typing I can’t read my computer screen even though there is text on it. It’s really important not to accidentally hit the caps lock button while typing this way or to accidently click off this screen or else one might type for a while and then when one looked at the screen either what would be there would be in all capitol letters, which is hard to undo, since you have to retype everything, or it simply wouldn’t be there which is worse. I wonder if I’ve written a page yet? Let’s see.

Wow! I have! I’m even a paragraph over! That’s a delightful beginning. This story is being really fun to write. maybe I should just go on and on in this manner and never tell a story at all. Oh dear, I hope I didn’t lose anybody by saying that. EMERGENCY HEADLINE ATTENTION GETTERS!!!

DRAGON’S ATTACK, PRINCESS IS KIDNAPPED, FIRE FAMINE AND FLOODS, POPE ELOPES, REALLY GREAT EPIC MOTION PICTURE RELEASED, ECONOMY SURGES, ECONOMY PLUMETS, ALIENS ARRIVE FROM MARS AND THEY AREN’T GREEN, PANIC ENSUES, ELIZABETH VON FANGE IS AT A LOSS FOR WORDS

I hope you’ll continue reading now. There actually is a story behind one of those potential newspaper headlines. Apparently several years ago a wealthy newspaper owner was trying to decide which of his three sons to leave his vast publishing empire to and he called them together and told them that the one who would tell him the most sensational newspaper headline that would sell the most papers would get the family fortune. The sons came back and one had “President turns Communist” and the other had something similar but the third son, and the winning son, had simply two words for his father, “Pope Elopes”. Since the Pope isn’t supposed to get married that would be rather sensational. I’m a Christian and not Catholic just so you know. My oldest brother Daniel told the story I just told you at lunch today. So for those of you in doubt, yes brothers can be useful for something or than getting rooms messy. I’m very fond of my three brothers just so you know.
27/10/05

It is now a new day. In case you were wondering the date mentioned above shows that it is a new day and on that day I wrote this. The next time you see a date it will mean that what was written after that was on a different day and so forth. I find this rather interesting and it helps me keep track of where I am and whether or not I’ve actually written my daily page yet. I don’t really plan on writing on the weekends though.

Perhaps I should return to the story which ought to be taking shape
eventually. As I’ve said before I really like fairy tales so I’ll probably have a sort of fairy tale story. I’m currently considering having a princess for the main character. Now there is what is called the stereotypical princess which is a princess who is very proper and perfect and beautiful and principally just gets married to the handsome hero at the end of the book. However there aren’t that many books that i’ve ever read that have that sort of a princess as a heroine. Nowadays there is the new stereotypical nonstereotypical princess who isn’t very proper or dignified or golden haired and who goes on adventures and usually doesn’t like being a princess.

Although I’m often not very original I do rather like to be but first and foremost I like to be funny and I like to enjoy what I’m writing because otherwise I won’t write it and I’ll get tired of it and whatever it was I started will merely lay dormant in a corner of my computers hard drive and have nothing happen to it for a very long time. Now what does this have to do with heroines? Well I don’t want to go with the stereotypical nonstereotypical princess so I’m currently leaning towards the stereotypical princess and since I feel a bit too lazy to look at the hoards of other options that I could use I think I will just start with the stereotypical fairy tale princess.

Now to describe this story’s heroine. She has long beautiful hair that resembles gold in color. She has stunning blue eyes like the the color of the sky. Her teeth are perfectly straight and white. Her lips are just the right shade of red and her face is flawless and stunning. Her figure is perfect too and she is altogether very stunningly beautiful as every fairy tale princess ought to be.

She is quite intelligent and knows all of the proper manners and customs and is always on her best behavior. She dances very gracefully and sings beautifully. And I think that her name shall be Gwendolyn only that’s rather difficult to type so I think I’ll name her Rose instead. Only there are a lot of characters named Rose so I think I’ll go back to Gwendolyn and fortunately for me spell check recognizes that word so if I type it wrong spell check can fix it. I use spell check a lot.

Princess Gwendolyn naturally lives in a very large palace of white marble with golden roofs. The castle is located near the sea and pleasant breezes flow throughout the palace at any given time. It seldom rains during the day but always rains at night after midnight and before dawn when nobody is about so that in the morning everything is clean and fresh and nobody had to bother about having their picnics spoiled by the rain. On the opposite of the castle from the sea are many large and lovely meadows which are perfect for picnics and beyond those are some pleasant woods which aren’t at all scary except during the winter months when wolves sometimes prowl through them and there is fine hunting for the knights of the realm to do.

Also near the castle are fertile fields and quaint little villages and the land is very seldom troubled by war or pestilence or problems greater than the magnitude of deciding which hair ribbon would best go with one’s gown or whether or not one should take a long walk or curl up in the library with a good book or whether or not to eat ham or chicken for dinner and so forth. So the fairy tale kingdom is quite pleasant and very ideal if you like peace and tranquility and a lot of prosperity but it might be considered a little boring for a story therefore you might be expecting some exciting sort of thing to happen to bother the kingdom and make an epic quest necessary or perhaps a large war or something to like that to happen. But whether or not it will I haven’t decided yet.

Princess Gwendolyn enjoys her life at the royal palace quite a lot as you may imagine and she enjoys seeing the realm that her father rules over and is quite happy to know that she has an older brother who will be king after his father someday and that she probably won’t have to bother her head over the ruling of the kingdom and can instead pay more strict attention to the problems of her hair ribbons and attire. I suppose that makes Princess Gwendolyn sound rather empty headed but sometimes what to wear and whether or not it matches properly can be quite a challenge to figure out and I have yet to master fashion and to actually know what goes with what. But at least I know that you don’t mix stripes, plaids, dots, prints, and brilliant colors with pastels all in one outfit.

My, I’ve already typed up my page! Isn’t that delightful. But it’s such fun writing this story I might just continue.

I suppose it might be a good idea to have a conversation happen between some characters to make this sound more like a book instead of a ramble but although I have the character of the lovely Princess Gwendolyn I really don’t have any other characters to write about. So perhaps I’ll just leave that for tomorrow. This book is getting quite episodic. So TUNE IN TOMORROW FOR THE NEXT EXCITING ADVENTURE!

(Note, I wrote the tune in tomorrow for the next episode yesterday so presumably the next episode will be on here today. Providing I write it:) That’s what I’ll probably be doing about now. Maybe)

I really liked that dress. I still think it’s very pretty. My Mother made the outfit for me. She is a lot better at sewing than I am. Yet.

Today I went to Toys R Us and Dollar Tree. At Toys R Us I did not buy anything but my mother got two dolls since there was a buy one get one free sale. At Dollar Tree I made a purchase and I got four items which I have been enjoying, a really large necklace of costume jewelry, a DVD, a set of doll accessories, and a coloring activity book in case I feel like coloring. It was princess themed so I got it.

And I really don’t have anything else to say at the moment. I’m rather tired and my brain wants to think about making up stories and not about posting.

Sometimes I forget about what I’ve already posted and this leads to interesting situations. Since I’m not sure and I usually don’t want to look ridiculous by posting the exact same bit of news in two posts I sometimes go on the safe side and don’t post anything at all. However in this post I think I’ll mention some news I may have already mentioned but I might not have.

Probably the biggest piece of news is that I’m going to be an Aunt!!! Chances are high that it will be she so it looks as though I’ll finally be getting the niece I’ve been wanting some point next year. Her name will probably be Emma Grace so if you see me reffering to Emma Grace I’m probably talking about my niece.

At some point in November there is a convention in Florida which my family will probably be attending as exhibitors. So that means that for a week in November I probably won’t be posting unless they have free internet in the hotel room I’ll be staying at.

More recent news is that yesterday I went shopping and had a very enjoyable time since Mom and I went to Walmart as well as several other stores.

Also happening yesterday we put up this years Christmas tree. It’s nine feet tall and has lights built in to it and Mom, Andrew and I helped put it up. That was fun. Mom’s beginning to think a lot like Christmas.

So am I! I made out a Christmas Present list and actually it was of presents to give to other people and not to get. I’ll probably be writing the other kind at some point though:) Right now however the present I’d like the most is going to see The Chronicals of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe on the day it comes out(December 9th) or the day after.

I think I’ll probably be making most of the presents I’ll be giving this year. This is for several reasons: 1. A home made present is special 2. I don’t have that much money right now and I do have lots of craft stuff 3. It’s really really fun designing cross stitch designs 4. One can watch lots of movies in the time it takes to make most projects. 5. I think this is enough reasons.

And now I can go check off “Write Post” on my To Do List

I made the dress that the doll is wearing. And now I can check off “Write Post”. It is late and I’m trying to finish my Daily To Do List quickly!

“What are we going to do?” Rose said, panic showing itself plainly in her face.

“Well, I don’t think panicking would be a good idea.” Violet said calmly.

“But now would be a good time for it.” Aster said looking worried and excited.

“Well, I didn’t say not to panic, I just said it wouldn’t be a good idea.” Violet mentioned. She obviously was not so bothered as Rose and Aster, her two friends were.

There was a buzzing noise and a large bumble bee flew by. Rose started, “Was that…”

“No, it wasn’t.” Violet said.

“I’m pretty sure it wasn’t.” Aster said. “They’ll make a lot more noise than that when they come.”

“Of course.” Rose said, then notice her reflection in a nearby mirror she hastily began fixing her hair. Aster noticed this and decided that her own hair would probably look nicer if it were primped a slight bit.

Violet however wasn’t bothered with such things, her hair was always wind blown and tangled and yet it always looked nice for it was a pretty shade of brown and she had such an easy air about her that no matter how she looked she always appeared nice.

Rose was self conscious and therefore she required effort to be at ease with her appearance. Aster imitated whatever example she felt the most like imitating.

A loud buzzing noise put an end to the primping.

“That must be them.” Rose said. Violet nodded. Aster looked down expectantly at a very dainty and tiny foot which was her own. “I hope it fits.” she said very softly.

The others, with the possible exception of Violet were all hoping the same thing. There was a slight flutter going on for Rose, Aster, and Violet were flower fairies and had lovely little wings and were eagerly expecting something or someone or someones.

Whatever it was they were expecting in a few moments three other flower fairies showed up. One was obviously a prince, and another was obviously a bold and adventurous knight and the third was very obviously a young nobleman who had come along for the ride.

The prince smiled pleasantly and Rose, Aster, and Violet all curtsied very prettily, Rose took the longest time to accomplish this though she did it very charmingly with every curl of her golden hair behaving beautifully for once.

In the prince’s hand was a dainty little slipper, which was rather odd for it was seldom that flower fairies wore shoes but Rose, Aster, and Violet weren’t wondering about the slipper. They knew all about it and how some mysterious and beautiful young fairy had accidently left it behind her at the masquerade ball on the previous night and it was now being tried on the foot of every maiden in the kingdom until it fit somebody and when it did… Well, let’s just say Rose was determined that it was going to fit her.

Since she and Aster had exactly the same size feet Rose quickly smiled her way forward and the handsome prince offered her the slipper and Rose put it on and it fit perfectly and Rose smiled very prettily as had twelve other flower fairies who had fit their foot into the slipper but then… the prince shook his head. “It was too big for her.” he said regretfully. Rose stared at him in amazement, “And you really want a girl with such tiny feet!” she said almost in disbelief for her own foot was about as small as was considered proper.

Aster, who had the same size foot, felt that her fate was sealed, “Oh what a pity to have normal sized feet!” she said.

“I think they are very pretty” said the young nobleman who had accompanied the prince.

“You do?” and Aster smiled her most enchanting smile while she looked at him with her soft green eyes and tilted her head so that the sun fell just right on her red hair and illuminated it nicely.

“Yes, In fact I think the rest of you is quite pretty too.” The young nobleman flower fairy said and then, courtship being very short in the flower fairy realm, he promptly proposed and Aster promptly said “Yes” and the two of them flew away to ask her parents for permission and to look at real estate. Things happen quickly to tiny things.

The prince however was taking his time for he liked Rose but he didn’t think that the shoe fit right. He asked Rose if she could kick the slipper off and Rose, without much seeming effort, could do so and the prince decided that she, if she wasn’t the girl he had met at the masquerade ball, was certainly as nice so he promptly proposed and they flew off to take care of business.

This left the adventurous knight and Violet behind. For a moment there was silence then Violet spoke, “Would you like some tea?”

“Yes, I would.” the adventurous knight said and while she made the tea and they drank it he told her about his daring adventures and she told him about her impressive cooking skills and as soon they had finished their tea he proposed and Violet said “Yes” very nicely and the bold and adventurous knight courageously kissed her and they two set about business.

So everybody got married and lived happily ever after!!!

Moral: This is a very unrealistic story and could only happen to flower fairies. But I suppose that’s the point.

In the morning we, Mom, Dad and I, went to the eight thirty service so that we would be back home in time to prepare for some guests of Daniel’s who were coming for lunch. Everything was ready when Daniel and his four friends (not all the friends he has of course but all that were coming for lunch) showed up with Andrew, who had driven to church for the ten thirty service arriving at about the same time.

It was an enjoyable afternoon. After lunch and desert and everybody had talked for a long time and I had shown off my Kitty dolls in outfits that I had made for them (actually I showed my Kittys almost first thing) and they had been duly admired, I brought out my computer.

The last time Daniel had had some of these friends over I had brought out my computer and showed some movies and one of the girls who was here this time had been there last time and remembered the movies. I now had quite a few more than I had then so we enjoyed watching those. They laughed in a very complimentarily way at the funny parts. I enjoyed that.

After they left it was time for a bit of a nap and then we went to the evening service at church. There I sat in the directors chair and was a director without anybody on camera so I just adjusted the light levels when the lighting changed, which it does about five or six times during a service, and put the words on the screen whenever their was a song with them and I put up the scripture when it was being referred to. I doubt whether any one was watching the whole thing but you never know…

However it was after the service that the two highlights of the day happened. The first one was that after the service I met somebody… Mom has been loaning some of our Henty books to a home-schooled family for some time. Usually the mother of the family will call my Mom and tell her which book is next in the list to read and usually the book will go into the car and then the next time we see them (the mother and father) at church and think about it the book will transfer to them. However, although I knew that their son was reading the books I hadn’t actually met him until last night.

We met the mother (Or Mrs. Winger as I think the name is spelled) last night and since we had the next Henty book (The Dragon and the Raven) in the car we walked out to our car after the service and I noticed that somebody who I thought was their son was following along. We arrived at the car and I got out the Dragon and the Raven and handed it to Mrs. Winger who promptly handed it to her son and I half expected that they would now leave.

However, and very nicely however, my Dad was really thinking about the service, which was about the end times, and he hadn’t quite agreed with the pastor and he began talking. When my Dad talks he has great powers of conversation so after waiting a few moments I turned, smiled, and said “Do you enjoy reading the Henty books?”. That was the beginning of the first actual talking in person conversation with somebody born in the same year that I was that I had had in months and I thoroughly enjoyed it. We discussed G. A. Henty and reading in general and drawing (he takes art lessons) and slightly talked about Tolkien, and sewing, and writing, and the seldomness of meeting persons our own age (I brought that subject up by stating how nice it was to be talking to someone about my own age and by the way how old are you? (he was sixteen but turning seventeen in December which since I had just turned seventeen in September meant that we were born in the same year)) and we discussed speeches and talking and cold weather and lots more things until finally my Dad, my Mom, and his parents had finished talking about the end times and it was time to go.

When we got into the car and drove off I said I was very glad that they had talked for so long. Then, after perhaps a little more conversation, I asked Mom if she could remember what his name was and after a bit of thinking we agreed on Douglas. So I think, though I’m not absolutely positive, that I met Douglas last night.

And just when I thought the evening had reached the highest point Mom suggested (in our discussion of whether to eat out or not and if so what) that we were near Earth Fare which sells some very delicious healthy ice cream. We went to that store but they were closed so instead we went to Harris Teeter and got some sugar free ice cream bars there, and they were absolutely delicious!!! So I had a very enjoyable day indeed.

My Three Kitty Dolls in the outfits I made for them.

And I made the wings that the doll in the purple outfit is wearing. I made them yesterday and I was quite pleased with how they turned out though you can’t quite see them in the picture. From left to right, my creation of Belle’s outfit from Beauty and the Beast, Dorothy’s Dress from Wizard of Oz, and a Miscellaneous fairy.