Hey! We Were Promised a Fairy Tea!

You know how last week our feathered friends in MN found that cool sign post that advertised cookies and then they got to eat a cookie? Awesome, right?

So, I don’t know if you’ve ever heard about this thing called “false advertising” but we just learned about it. Here’s how it works. Someone puts up a sign telling you that a thing is happening (like this one for a Fairy Tea.) You read the sign and get super-duper extra excited about the Fairy Tea happening. You imagine all the wonderful desserts and delicious drinks. You look forward to finally meeting your first fairies and finding out if they can grant wishes or help you find treasure. You’d even be willing to help them trade cash for teeth or whatever. SO you go to the place where it’s supposed to be going on. You find a “T” (well, it’s lower case, but should be good enough.) Except there’s no Tea.

And definitely no fairies anywhere in sight. You think maybe you just missed them or maybe you’re a little too early and they’re on their way. You decide to look out for them. You wait for hours. NOTHING.

You suddenly remember that fairies live in a wood. Maybe that’s the problem. There aren’t a lot of places for a fairy to hide in a fruit & vegetable garden. So you relocate to a nearby wood.

You find out that it’s the wrong kind of wood. Well, it’s the right kind of wood, but you want the version where it’s still in trees attached to roots and leaves and flowers and all that. You look around and find a good wooded spot to check for fairies. Lots of trees, ferns, streams, etc.

(By the way, while we’re teaching you things, “etc. “is a word you use when you can’t be bothered listing all the things around. We have much better things to do with our time.)

Great tree, lovely forest. Can we find any fairies here? We CANNOT. Come on, already! We’re getting hungry and thirsty. You know what would be great right now? Some tea! Or coffee, we’re not picky. As long as there’s cake. We’ve heard cruise ships have afternoon teas with lots of delicious goodies. And it just so happens that we found a boat...

Well, it is technically a boat, but we don’t think it’s going anywhere anytime soon. And it’s definitely not cruise ship material. Maybe we can charter a helicopter? Yacht? Private jet? Anyone? We’d like to get out of here and have a delicious afternoon hot-beverage-with-lots-of-sugary-goodness party. PLEASE help us out! Nothing? No one?

SO, that’s what false advertising is. They promise you something. Then they don’t give it to you. In this case, no Fairies. No tea. No cookies or cakes. Just garden and forest and creeks. You are stuck with your disappointment. Good luck!

(P.S.- Katie just told us that there is a Fairy Tea here at the NVS Harvest Festival. So we can come to that, but it is a LONG time from now. Like we want to wait until then? Buckwheat, Ted, and Nay Nay- any room at your next tea party? Sneaks- any extra coffee at your house? Scottie and Friends- can you send us some cookies? Deckers- can we get an invite to your naming party? And will there be snacks? Can ANYONE help us????!)