The Catalogs, part 2 When Squirrel delivered her mail that afternoon, Mama Chipmunk settled into her reading chair to peruse the latest offerings from her favorite bookseller. As he did every spring, Mr. Owl was soliciting donations for his annual...
The Catalogs Around mid-afternoon, Squirrel checked the table on the cottage porch and found three pieces of mail to deliver: a letter for Old Possum; a book catalog (taped shut) for Mama Chipmunk; and addressed to Rabbit, another (unsealed) catalog, from a...
The Reading Party The Gardener and his wife had gone away for several days and, as they usually did when traveling, left the cats in charge. Which, of course, meant tuna-salad sandwiches for dinner every night, and knitting parties with Squirrel. But the...
The Sudden Storm, part 2 Once she knew that her cousins and their families were safe, Crow flew one circuit around the woods. Not seeing any storm damage there, she raced to the garden. Her first stop was Mama Chipmunk’s house, where she banged on the...
The Sudden Storm Crow was worried. While (nearly) everyone else in the garden was eating their breakfast, she was flying around the neighborhood, before going to the woods … when the wind howled like never before, blowing the sudden rain — a downpour,...
