Frankie's Birthday!

Wednesday, Feb 22nd, was my dog Frankfurter's birthday.  He is now 1 year old.

                                 Here are some cute pictures of the little girls cuddling up with Frankie.

                                                                   Snuggly-wuggly!

                                                           "Hey, don't squish me!"

                                                       "Do you have any... cheese?"

                                                      Posing Puppy!!!  So cute.

                                         He is such fun.  I love having Frankie for a dog.


                                  LIKES:
                                1. Cheddar cheese
                                2. Snuggling with you
                                3. Visitors
                                4. Playing with my Squeaky
                                5. Fetching a ball
                                6.  Bacon scraps
                                7. New toys
                                8. When "Master" gets home
                                9.  Being with Daisy and Sunshine at Aunt Mary's farm
                                10. Walks
                                11.  YOU!!!
                               DISLIKES:
               1. Baths
                              2. Getting wet 
                              3. Being scolded
                              4. Being lonely when you're away
                              5. Being scratched too roughly
                              6. Tail pulling 
                              7.  Pushing                    
                              8.  Being  held uncomfortably
                              9. Being thrown out in the rain
                             10.  Neighbor boys climbing over the fence 
                             11. Being rejected by YOU!!!              
                           IN GENERAL:
            A fun puppy whom I love!!!!
POSTED BY THE DOG-LOVING DORATHY!!! 

Friends- Chapter four

Chapter 4
Kimcy breaks her glasses


As soon as Thinacy was told the hilarious debut of why it was so funny (or, in Kimcy's opinion, bothersome, and a waste of a good plan), Thinacy groped in her pouch.  There was no dynamite left.
"A waste of three perfectly good sticks of dynamite!"   She moaned.
Chyta started laughing again.
"You used DYNAMITE?"  She  laughed.  "So THAT'S what that was.  Isn't that, like, a kind of BOMB?  You are SO FUNNY!"  More laughter.
"I dunno, she's very annoying at times," Kimcy remarked angrily.
They continued flying northwards, and they soon reached one of Cigam's beautiful beaches.
"Ah, a beach," Thinacy sighed with relief, flopping onto the warm sand.  "What do you say we... stay here for a while, Chyta?"
"Yeah, sure," Chyta said slowly.  "You go ahead and stay here while I find out who I am, why I'm here anyways, and how I was even born.  You know, parents or what." 
She started to slip away into the nearby forest, and she would have completely done so if Kimcy hadn't said, "Wait for us.  We're coming with you."
"Excuse me?"  Chyta turned around.
"She said, 'we're coming with you',"  Thinacy repeated.
"What for?"  Challenged Chyta.
"Well, you can't go alone into the-" Kimcy gulped "Forbidden Forest!  You just can't."
"Can't I?"  Chyta narrowed her eyes.
"We're about as interested as you as you're interested in yourself, for one thing," reasoned Thinacy.
"That is seriously doubted by the creature standing in front of you," Chyta muttered.
"Anyways, I've read le-"  Kimcy stopped direction mid-word.  "Well, I've heard stories " She enunciated the word carefully "about a creature like you."
"Really?"  Anyone could tell that Chyta was not really interested.  "I'm not famous to anyone but, well, my food, and Belize, and Thessper, and the monkeys, and..."
"Yeah, right."  Thinacy rolled her eyes.
"Look, I can't really even read!"
"Blah, blah blah.  Seriously Chyta, I can take a hint.  You're lying."
"Am not!"
"Am too."
"Am not!"
"Am."
"Not!'
"Am!"
"NOT!"
"Am, am, AM!"
"Not, infinity! Ha!"
"Am, infinity... plus one."
"AAAARGH!!!!!" Chyta shrieked.
"Told you so," Sighed Kimcy.  "I told you that she was annoying!"
This was going a bit too far with Chyta; her nerves were at breaking point.
"HOW CAN WE TRAVEL TOGETHER IF YOU WON"T STOP BOTHERING ME CRAZILY LIKE THIS!!!"
Chyta was almost bursting with the effort not to make Thinacy pancakes with Kimcy syrup.
"I dunno."  Thinacy shrugged inevitably.
Chyta felt like she was about to explode, when...
Rumble, rumble.
"What is that?" asked Kimcy worriedly.
"It must be my stomach," Offered Chyta. "I haven't eaten since lunch."
"Yeah, that must be it."  Thinacy moaned.  "I'm hungry, too."
There it came again...  Rumble, rumble.
"That's not my stomach," said Chyta weakly.
A large timber wolf burst out of the bushes behind them.
"Aaaah!  I HATE TIMBER WOLVES!"  Screamed Thinacy.
The wolf growled, turning to Thinacy.
"Thinacy, I don't think he took that compliment-wise!"  Kimcy shouted.
"Oops,"  Thinacy mumbled.
The timber wolf looked at Thinacy, snarling and licking his lips, probably anticipating a meal of three delicious whatever-they-ares.
"W-w-wait a second,"  gasped Thinacy, recognition flooding into her already pale blue but now paler face. "Y-you're-r-re T-Tim aren't you?"  Stuttering like she did when she was scared.
"Yes that's right, 'Dinner,'"  said the wolf.
"Hey,"  said Chyta confusedly.  "Give me a moment to comprehend all of this.  A talking timber wolf?  Three flying lionesses?  A magical island surrounded by a forcefield?   This isn't making sense."
"Do you make sense?"  Tim sneered.  "Does she ,make sense?"  (he gestured to Thinacy.)  "In fact, does anyone here make sense?  No one has to make sense do they?"
"Good point,"  Kimcy mumbled.  "Thinacy never makes sense."
"Oh do I not?"  Thinacy folded her arms.
"Guys, this whole book doesn't make sense,"  interrupted Chyta.  "Don't ruin the storyline!"
In all of the contention Tim had sneaked up behind Thinacy and probably would have eaten her if he hadn't yelled "DINNERTIME!" as he lunged.
"No it's not dinnertime," was Thinacy's response, "And I think you're going the wrong way!"
She dodged out of the way, and Tim slammed into a large boulder behind her.
Chyta had climbed up a tree, and Kimcy had dug under a large rhododendron bush.  Thinacy flew on top of the boulder.
Tim looked around, dazed.   "Where are you little brats,"  he snarled.  "I'll find you sooner or later... 'Dinner'."
If this last remark was meant to enrage Thinacy, it didn't work.  It instead made her laugh, giving away her hiding place, which was fine for Tim.
"Losing a penny and finding a nickel,"  he gloated silently.
He pounced on Kimcy's bush accidentally instead of Thinacy's boulder.
Now, as you should know, Kimcy has a very quick temper and thought this 'last remark' was directed at her.
When Tim pounced, she thought of it as proof.  
They tumbled around for a while.  
Tim realized that Kimcy wasn't Thinacy, but he knew that Kimcy was the larger and fatter of the three, and he wasn't going to give up a meal this "tasty". 
Finally, as a last resort,  Tim stole Kimcy's glasses and started running.
"YOU GET BACK HERE WITH MY GLASSES!  Oh that creep, now I can't even see him!"  She shrieked.
When Tim passed by Chyta's tree, she pounced on him and grabbed Kimcy's glasses back, rushing to Kimcy's side and returning the stolen essentials.
"Good-bye,"  she said frantically,  "excuse me for leaving so soon, but I'd rather not be eaten by a certain timber wolfish monstrosity present-!"  And with that, she rushed off, Tim on her heels.
 Kimcy rushed to Thinacy, whispering a plan in her ear.  Thinacy nodded.
Unfortunately, Kimcy's glasses fell off in the process.
"Hey, little snack, my tasty victual, will you plea-"  Tim didn't get any farther in his composition of a flattering (in an I'm-going-to-eat-you sort of way) paragraph to Chyta, who was currently being chased, because Thinacy started pounding him into the ground. 
 Of course, angering and/or humiliating Thinacy, or she witnesses you doing one to any of her friends, it can be likened to shouting in her ear with a microphone:  "Hello!  Please rearrange my face!" 
 Tim soon started dreaming of  eating tasty, delectable candies in the form of pale blue, smoky gray and creamy white flying lionesses, on a cake shaped like glasses.  Sadly, he fell on Kimcy's glasses, and they were soon smashed.
 

FIND THE NEXT PART, CHAPTER FIVE, SOON

   

Friends- Chapter three

Chapter  3:
Thinacy plays with dynamite


Thinacy quickly rolled over in thin air, and not a moment too soon.  A helicopter had been zooming straight a her!
"Not good, not GOOD," she gasped.  "It's those helicopters again!"
Kimcy frantically turned to Chyta.
"This is all your fault, Chyta, with your stupid 'get us out of here' spell!"  She yelled hastily in her anger.
"You ASKED for it, Kimcy!"  Chyta responded hotly, glaring at her.
"We can't fight," Said Thinacy desperately.  "We mustn't, not now!"
They paused, considering the dangers that they were already in.
Why add to this confusion? Kimcy thought.
Oh, how did I let myself get into this? Thought Chyta.
"All right," They called together, over the frightful whirring noise that the helicopters made.
"I have a plan," said Kimcy, "But we all have to do it together or it won't work!  Now, this is my plan..."
She whispered something in their ears, but Thinacy didn't hear properly.  When Kimcy finished, they both nodded.

Kimcy's plan was this:
They would tease the helicopters to the center of the sky, and at the last moment, they would fly out from in between the helicopters when their guns were about to fire, and, by the time they noticed, it would be too late.  The helicopters would destroy themselves!
It was an excellent plan, but Thinacy only knew that she was supposed to trick them to the center, and not even that they were not supposed to hurt them, and only let them hurt themselves!   And this was the plan's undoing.                                                                                                                                              

Each took charge of one helicopter and distracted it, lulling them to the center of the sky.
"Nyah, nyah, nah nah, nyah," sung Chyta, flying lazily in front of her helicopter, towards the center.
To trick hers, Kimcy was making silly faces.
For hers, Thinacy was... hacking with an axe?!
"Thinacy, didn't I tell you that we weren't supposed to do that?"  Kimcy shrieked in Thinacy's direction.
"Oh.  Sorry."  Thinacy dropped the axe.
The helicopters had, by now, all been directed into the center of the sky.  Thinacy, naturally, panicked.  She thought Kimcy and Chyta were about to get killed!  Just as the helicopter's guns were trained on Kimcy and Chyta, she pulled something out of her leather sack...
"Ready?"  Said Kimcy, smirking.  Chyta nodded.   "G-"  But she got no farther.
BAM!!!
There was a cloud of smoke, and pieces of green helicopter steel went flying down to the island, bouncing off the barrier.
"Thinacy?"  Kimcy asked, her voice dangerously calm.  "Just what are you doing?"
Chyta stared at Thinacy, dumbfounded, stunned into silence.
"Blowing up helicopters," answered Thinacy casually.
BAM!!!
Another cloud of smoke, more helicopter fragments.                                                                                Kimcy took a closer look.  She saw the word DYNAMITE on a burning stick as Thinacy threw it.
BAM!!!
"THINACY!!!"  Screeched Kimcy furiously, among more smoke and pieces of green helicopter.
Chyta couldn't help laughing.  She rolled over with mirth.
"What?"  Thinacy didn't get it.
 FIND THE NEXT PART, CHAPTER FOUR, SOON
  

Friends- Chapter two

           


Chapter 2
Chyta has some uninvited party guests



Cake splattered all over Chyta's face.
 Belize just sat there, looking stunned.
Thessper slunk out of sight, hissing.
Laying in front of them, in the now spoiled cake, lay two flying lionesses, rather similar to Chyta.

The first was a cream color, the other was a sky-blue color.
The cream colored one had glasses, and the blue one had a leather pouch covered with beads.  Chyta supposed that she had decorated it herself.   The beads were the same color as a flower right after a rainstorm: beautiful.
The cream colored flying lioness groaned because her glasses were covered with coconut frosting, and the blue one licked the cake off of her own face, laughing.
Belize recovered from her shock.  She usually let Chyta and Thessper do the talking, but when she was angry, her tiger temper got the better of her.
"NOW LOOK WHAT YOU DID!" she roared, while the lionesses cringed at this unexpected turn of events.
"Calm down, Belize," soothed Chyta.  "Your yelling is waking up the whole forest!  It's Saturday, you know, and the monkeys especially like to sleep in."
Sure enough,  monkeys began angrily poking weary heads out of the forest, and the snakes and even other tigers got up to see what all the commotion was about.
"Go back to bed, it'sssss nothing," Thessper assured them.
"Alright, now about you two troublemakers," Chyta said, turning to the flying lionesses.  She folded her arms, and said, trying to control her temper, in a quavery voice: "Explain yourselves."
"We-ll-l," began the cream colored one, "We were lost, because Thinacy here" (she gestured at the blue one with dislike) "tried to teleport us to food, and we ran into those  helicopters up there" (she pointed to the sky where three helicopters were flying) "or, rather, they ran into us, so Thinacy tried again, and we landed splat! in your birthday cake- wait, how old are you?" she asked.
"Well then, if you must know, I'm now 152," grumbled Chyta.
Thinacy's mouth dropped open.
"What's your name?" the cream one asked.
"Chyta," Chyta said.  "Yours?"
"Kimcy," offered the cream colored one.
"Sorry we spoiled your cake," said Thinacy.  "It looks... delicious!"  She hovered over the mess of cake.
"We'll be going now," Kimcy said firmly.  She grabbed Thinacy's paw and flew upwards.
Bong!!
She fell back down.
"Sorry, Kimcy," she said, full of uncontrollable laughter,"but this island is surrounded by a barrier!"            "Isn't there some sort of spell that can get us out of here?"  Thinacy complained.
Chyta thought awhile.  I do know a simple spell, she thought.  She may take it literally, though.  She may be offended, said the negative voice in her head.  She shook it.
"Yes," she grinned finally, "but I need three to do it."
"Okay," Kimcy grumbled eventually.
"First, we close our eyes and imagine," said Chyta, "A simple symbol.  Got it?"  They nodded.
"Alright, now we all have to draw our symbols in the dirt. Ready? Set? Go."
She drew a star.  Kimcy drew a diamond, and Thinacy drew a heart.
"Now we close our eyes again.  Focus on your symbol, while I say the spell,"  Chyta said finally.

She cleared her throat and said: "GET US OUT OF HERE!"
They found themselves above the island.  But they looked at their tails, and there, instead of a tassel, was their symbol.
" 'Get us out of here?' "  Kimcy was puzzled.
"Look, I didn't make it up!"  Said Chyta.  But her words were cut off short as she suddenly stared behind an astonished Thinacy, looking pale.  "Look out, Thinacy!"

FIND THE NEXT PART, CHAPTER THREE, SOON

Friends- Chapter one

              

Chapter 1:
Meet Chyta






Yawn,"  Chyta stretched, picking up a list, which said:
My Birthday List 
and checked off the first item," Wake up".
 Her two best friends, Belize, the Bengal tiger, and Thessper, the Boa Constrictor, also yawned.
Thessper slept curled around one part of the bed, and Belize slept at the foot.
"What is next on my very lazy list of things to do?"  She asked herself, checking.  She couldn't read Belize's cursive.
 Thessper looked at her. 
"Wasssssn't it exxxcersssize?" He hissed.
"Ah yes, exercise.  What kind?"
Chyta thought a bit. 
"Oh yeah, flying."
She unfolded her wings and flew around her island, her blue-grey hair whipping her face.
Chyta stopped, and rested on a palm tree.  "Boy, that was fun," she laughed.
She checked off  "Exercise."  
She looked at her list, which said, translated again by Thessper, "Make a birthday cake".
"Okay", she said,  rubbing her paws in anticipation.
Chyta washed her paws at the big waterfall, and with her friends' help collected her ingredients:
Peacock eggs,
Sea salt,
Tropical flours,
Coconuts,
Coconut milk,
Pineapple,
Roses,
Coconut cream,
Cocoa,
Fresh cacao chocolate,
Diet baking soda (Chyta was very firm about her sugar level)
Baking magic powder,
Sugar cane, 
and a little palm leaf.
And before any of them knew it, there was a lovely 3 layer chocolate cake with coconut frosting, topped with roses, pineapple, and the little bit of palm leaf sitting before them.

Chyta licked her lips and set it down to cool, marking off  "Make a birthday cake".
She checked her list again.  It was, translated, "Eat lunch".
Belize and Chyta creeped into the small forest to their left, and caught toucans for both, although Thessper wanted mice and eggs. 
"Fried bird a la mood," Chyta joked, roasting it.
They ate them with tropical dressing, and checked off "Eat lunch".
Chyta looked at her list again.  Next was to "Have birthday party".
She looked at her presents to herself, wrapped in a pile to her right, and her presents from Belize and Thessper, to her left.
"I'll open them after cake," she decided.
Belize and Thessper sang:
"Happy birthday to you,
You're 152,
Happy birthday, dear Chyta-"
Chyta picked up her cake, opening her mouth-
"Happy birthday to..."
SPLAT!!

FIND THE NEXT PART, CHAPTER TWO, SOON

Friends- table of contents, introduction

FRIENDS
 by Dorathy Dotson
Published by A Young Writer's Magnum Opus




 Table of Contents:
 Introduction
1. Meet Chyta
2. Chyta has some uninvited party guests
3. Thinacy plays with dynamite
4. Kimcy breaks her glasses
5. Chyta becomes famous
6. Dinner goes bad
7. They shop at the store of doom
8. Thinacy receives an obnoxious letter
9. Chyta has an unwanted haircut
10. They find out their journey was a fake
11. This story adds up to infinity 
Epilogue                                                   










 Introduction                                              



Chyta is a... well... even she herself doesn't know!  Only the Gods and Goddesses know that. 
Well, at least one does.
  Lamina, the goddess of all animals and creatures, even the ones unknown to us, capable of wonderful, extraordinary powers.  They are called SunArmon.. 
And, just so you know, these are the gods and goddesses:
Father Emit, the king, god of time
Mother Erutan, the queen, goddess of nature
And their children,
Gninthgil, (Nin-thil) the oldest daughter, goddess of lightning
Erif, the oldest son, god of fire
Retaw, the middle daughter, goddess of water
Ssarg, the youngest son, god of grass
Ria, the youngest daughter, goddess of air
Rewolf,  Mother Erutan's helper, goddess of flowers
Lamina, Ria's nursemaid, goddess of animals
Winter
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Esor, Rewolf's helper
Pilut, Rewolf's helper
And more!

  Chyta lives on Tropica, a tropical island, surrounded by a barrier, off the coast of a large, forest-covered continent called Cigam.
And, so, our story starts on a very special day for Chyta...


FIND THE NEXT PART, CHAPTER ONE, SOON

The Mackay Cousins come over

Our 2nd cousins (meaning my mom's cousins), the Mackays, came over!!!
There is:  Aunt Joanna, Uncle Andy, Brooke, Jessica and Austin.
They came late Friday night, at their hotel.
The next day, we visited with them.
First we went to the Gilbert House.
We had a lot of fun.
Then we went next door to the carousel.
I found out that they had taken my favorite horse, Magic, off to make room for a Christmas horse named "Glad Tidings".
Some hard world, huh?
 We rode twice, playing the "ring game"- see older post.
Then they invited us over to their hotel to swim in their pool, and we had a lot of fun swimming there!
Then they came to our house to play and have dinner.
Frankie had a lot of fun with them, too, and vice versa.
We had homemade hamburgers and french fries with purple grapes and raw veggies.
Me and Jessica played and, with everyone else, watched Pete's Dragon.
Then we made Jessica's bed on the black "futon" in my room.  We also made Austin's bed in Christopher's room and Brooke slept on the hide-a-bed in the living room.
Uncle Andy and Aunt Joanna drove back to the hotel.
We were just about to go to sleep when... pause for effect...
IT STARTED TO SNOW!!!
We all went outside to enjoy some fresh air and snowflakes, then mom read us some stories aloud, then went to bed.

When we woke up the next day (Sunday), we looked outside and guess what?
EVERYTHING WAS COVERED IN GLORIOUS SNOW!!!
Church was canceled due to the hazardous driving conditions :(
Anyways, we had a wonderful snowday off.
 Brooke and Julianna sledding down our driveway!
 
Dad's best friend, Bradley Jackson, came over and surprised us.
He pulled a HILARIOUS prank by walking to our house and writing SCOT on the snow in the car window and hiding.
We didn't know it was him until he came and told us, L.O.L!!!


 Angel after a rough backwards sled ride!

Him and I built an awesome snowman that was too tall to last until 3:30 p.m. *sob*
 Bradley rolling the snowman's head- he's so tall, we only got him up to his mouth...  silly silly silly!

 
It was a great snowman, anyway.  It was about 6 feet tall!
 
 
The Bassetts came over later and we played.
Later everyone went home.
We had dinner, watched a Book of Mormon movie, and went to bed.
POSTED BY THE TIRED YET FUN-LOVING
DORATHY DOTSON!!!!