July 13, 2011 Wednesday - Best Friend and Chocolate Covered Strawberries

It's nice to have best friends, especially when you can go for months and not been in touch and then call and say "Let's have dinner and catch up!"  Well, that is what I did tonight.  We talked and talked just like no time had/has past since we'd seen each other.  Such a nice pleasure to have dinner and catch up.

So dear friend - you helped me tonight figure out the storyline for Part 2 of Bear and the "Flying Fish" - sometimes telling someone the story out loud is easier than writing it down......

Now where did we leave off.......?

Enough, is enough, he just takes it in his mind to grab that piece of paper and bounds out the open front door......and is off to find mommy and the "Flying Fish".


As he bounds down the stairs and dashes for cover in the bushes and stops to catch his breath - he looks around and sees a lady walking her dog down the block, dare he approach her?  The dog must have sensed he was there and started barking - and Bear bounds away!


After many hours of wandering the streets, he is no closer to finding mommy or the "Flying Fish".  And then he sees a man with a sign - he cannot read the sign but he does see the picture on it - "Flying Fish" - yes, there they are! He follows the man staying out of site.


Down the block and around the corner - and there another picture of the "Flying Fish" - but there's no water - just a door - and people waiting in line, this can't be the right place.  What Bear has found is the Restaurant celebrating its Grand Opening!


A man with a broom, chase Bear away...........

Stay turned for more Part 3 of  Bear and the "Flying Fish"!

PS - suggestions and comments are welcomed to the storyline....Sandy 

July 11, 2011 - Mon. - Part 1 of Bear and the Flying Fish

"Bear and the Flying Fish"

Draft Part 1 - 07-11-11

Bear and I leave home lock stock and barrel as they say, and fly to Freemantle, Western Australia - from there we take a steam ship to Victoria Harbor on an island in the Indian Ocean - all the time we are traveling - I keep telling the him what a great place that we are moving to and he will see Flying Fish!  

Now the word, "Fish", always gets his attention, we had an aquarium and he loved watching the fish and even a time or too dipped in a paw......but he didn't enjoy getting it wet.

Once we arrive I learn than he has to be quarantined for a week, with a nice old couple, Mary and John who live in Victoria Harbor. They take in the cats that have to stay for the week before letting their owners take them to their new home.

Since our new home wasn't even started, I have arranged for Bear to stay longer with Mary and John. 

I have shown the cat a picture of the Flying Fish and Mary and John have reinforced that the he will see the Flying Fish, but he has to wait until the house is done so that we can move in.  

One day he spies a piece of paper - with a picture of the "Flying Fish" on it - but he doesn't realize that the piece of paper is a flier announcing the "Grand Opening of the Flying Fish Restaurant"!  

Enough, is enough, he just takes it in his mind to grab that piece of paper and bounds out the open front door......and is off to find me and the "Flying Fish".

Stay turned for more about Bear and the "Flying Fish"

PS - suggestions and comments are welcomed to the storyline....Sandy 

July 10, 2011 Sun. Belated Congratulations to the Winners of the Kite Contest

With all the excitment at the “Kite Fly-In Festival”  we negelected to announce the 1st and 2nd Place Winners - 

1st Place went to Emily Swanson of Gwynyth

with her beautiful Butterfly 

2nd Place went to Brian Eagleton of Kofu 

with his Jet Airplane

Thanks everyone for coming and making this the best 

"Kite Fly-In Festival!

Anyone who lost a brown sweater or a red and yellow beach blanket, check in with Julia.


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