Gandalf the Yellow-haired

Noah, my four-year-old brother, after watching an animated movie of The Hobbit: "Could you put on my cape?"

I said, "Sure. Do you want the Superman S facing in, or out?"

Noah said, "In. 'Cause Gandalf doesn't fly."

I straightened up and grinned at my sister. "Oh!" I said, "Are you Gandalf?"

"Yep," said the little wizard in the Superman cape, "Only I'm a different kind of wizard, with a sword and shield. I'm a boy Gandalf."

Then a few minutes later, I saw him wearing a red Santa hat. It was his wizard hat, of course! "But it doesn't stay up very good," he admitted to me.

Then for part of today he was St. Michael the Archangel. With a spear, so he could "poke the devil."

Adventures That May Or May Not Be So

Oh, my goodness! You’re not going to believe what happened to me. You’re simply not going to believe it!

Okay, so I was just walking around the yard when suddenly, I saw a rabbit bounding into the sagebrush. And this wasn’t an ordinary brown rabbit with a fluffy white tail. This rabbit had a pocket-watch and a waistcoat! Having read the right sort of books, this wasn’t as shocking to me as it could have been. But I was still very surprised.

So I followed the waistcoated rabbit - I mean, wouldn’t you?

I had to cut through the sagebrush, which slowed me down a bit, and pretty soon I lost sight of the rabbit. Then just as I was about to turn back I fell into a hole that I’m positive wasn’t there before today. It was a little big for a rabbit hole, but maybe the rabbit was some kind of rabbit king or something. He looked pretty important, with his great gold pocket-watch.

I fell a long way. I had a big headache by the time I hit the bottom - hard. I did manage to snatch a book from a falling shelf on the way down, so I had something to do as I fell. (The book was on Uglification. Fascinating!)

Some very strange things happened to me after I landed. I’ve learned to be careful about strange foods, because nearly everything I ate in the strange land disagreed with me in some way! And I now know the dangers of being a cry-baby, and I never want to see a rabbit again!

Oh, yes. I had tea with a mad hatter. And I talked to a mad cat that sometimes didn’t have a whole body. And almost got my head chopped off by a mad queen. Everyone was mad there.

Pardon me, I must run. The looking-glass is…melting.

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I’m really bored and have nothing to post. That’s why I was Alice today. ;)