Train Fairy

Here she is, our little train fairy, reading her Train Fairy Manual. You can tell she's a train fairy by her little engineer hat, which is standard wardrobe for some of the newer ones. Train fairies come in the wee hours of the morning and do all sorts of magical things, but we are prohibited from telling you any of that here, or else they might lose their magical powers. We can say, however, that most train employees know about train fairies and are very grateful indeed. Engineers in particular, are very superstitious about train fairies. Although it isn't advertised, they've set up little train fairy houses on the train engines so that the train fairies can stay and rest. Train fairies love to eat, especially sizzling rice soup and egg rolls. So if you leave some out tonight on your deck outside, don't be surprised if you're visited in the early morning by a snacking train fairy!

Today, the grandparents left after a disappointing trip up here. They could only stay for about a day, for fear the weather this evening would keep them stranded. There was a pretty vicious forecast involving ice and snow starting at 4:00, but it is 10:00 and so far it is still 37 degrees and basically wet outside. It's a cold wet, but still just wet. Maybe there'll be ice or something in the morning, but probably not. Everyone else will have all sorts of snow north of us, but once again, here we'll have probably nothing but cold and wet.

The positive to all of that is it makes for good snuggling. Tonight, the three of us watched the Barbie movie "Thumbelina." I have no idea what the original story was about, but I doubt it involved bulldozers and environmentalism. Basically, these small fairy creatures - not train fairies - were trying to stop a factory from being built, because it would tear up their home in the woods. They didn't say what the factory was going to make when it was set up. Hopefully it wasn't Barbie dolls!

Anyway, it was a close call, but the forces of good prevailed and everyone learned that we need to not build factories and use all our money to buy up huge bits of land to set aside for a nature preserve. In fact,I'm saving up for that right now.

Madison went to bed easy tonight, worn out from running Mommy around all day. Tomorrow morning, we'll find out about that ice. I'll also have to check on those egg rolls and sizzling rice - maybe the train fairies came!