There are a lot of differences between us critters and humans. For one thing we are so much more adorable than you humans will ever be. Our Sunflower Seed Guinness will win a craft beer competition every time. We do share one thing in common – politicians. More specifically, an age old institution called “City Hall.” Well, our esteemed elected officials on the Woodpile Council transferred money from the Christmas budget to their meeting snack budget. Because of the reduced Christmas budget they stored last year’s decorations in some cheapo storage burrow. Not surprising when we went to retrieve the decorations we found the burrow had collapse smashing everything to bits. Yes, you guessed it there was no money left in the Christmas budget to buy new ones.
We convened an emergency meeting of the Woodpile’s greatest minds to seek a solution. The Phantom Chipmunk (notorious criminal genius) proposed an elaborate plan for stealing the Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center in New York City. This plan was rejected because we couldn’t afford the electric bill to turn all those lights on. Vinnie the P., always looking for a new challenge, suggested we glue the broken decorations back together like a jigsaw puzzle. We asked Vinnie to calculate how long that would take. He said optimistically we could complete it by the year 2025. Mrs. Spot our esteemed school mistress suggested we have the little ‘munks color paper decorations. Everyone was enthusiastic about this suggestion until the Woodpile weatherman pointed out we are in a pattern of rainy weather and the decorations wouldn’t last long.
The meeting went on for hours with various ideas being considered. Chippy Jr. wandered into the meeting to ask me if I could make hot cocoa for him and his friends. I explained I was too busy trying to help find a solution to our dilemma. Chippy Jr. asked why we didn’t just go collect all of the decorations the humans left in their yards from 2019 and never bothered to pickup? The entire think tank of brilliant minds was stunned into complete silence with this simple but highly practical suggestion. Mrs. Spot was to first to recover and declared Monday to be a school “field day” and began making plans for a Christmas decoration scavenger hunt.
The students had a great time on the scavenger hunt. In fact, they had so much fun, they created a short humorous play about their adventures:
“If you were a Christmas decoration where you would you be hiding?”
“Maybe they are under the logs?”
Asking a passing elderly human lady -
“Have you seen any
Christmas decorations around here, they are not under the logs?”
The lady replied “Have you looked under your paw?”
“[Crashing noise] Oops, did I just smash a Christmas bulb?”
“At least there are lots more!”
“I going to be rich, this one is made out of gold.”
“Hmmm, how to bring them back to the Woodpile? I don’t
think I can stuff them in my cheek pouches.
"Look this bulb comes with its own ribbon to drag it.”
As the curtain closes on the stage the narrator remarks:
For years you have blamed the cat
for all those broken bulbs ...
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