BLUE HORSES AND GREEN SNAKES

12-6-08...BLUE HORSES AND GREEN SNAKES

When we were in school we had paper called Blue Horse. It had a bind around the paper with a picture of a blue horse on it. You could collect those little blue horses and get neat things with them. Brenda and I put ours together and got bright red diaries. Oh So Pretty, and we could put all our secrets in them. Norman and Paul got a pup tent. Shoot, we liked that tent as much as we did our diaries so we told the boys we wanted to use it one night. Of course they said No Way so we went running to our Mamas and told on em. Make em' let us use the tent. We are not sposed' to be selvish. If they don't want you to use the tent then It is theirs girls. You got diaries. You coulda' got tents. But thats for boys we said. Yep! They sure are 'GIRLS'. Heck that backfired we'll hafta' try something else Brenda.
A few nights later the boys were gettin' ready to spend a night in their tent. They sat it up in our backyard, and were busy gettin' all their things together for their night of adventure in the wilderness. Oh! We were just so envious. Green eyed with jealousy. We decided we would both stay at Brenda's house so we wouldn't have too see them darn boys havin' fun. Durn little varmits anyway!
We gathered my things and went to Brenda's house. After supper it was still daylight so we were outside. There were those darn boys down there just havin' a grand ol' time and we couldn't hardly stand it. No siree! Brenda come on, we will stay at my house and go out there tonight and just scare the stuffins' outta' them! We better not Clydene, we'll get in trouble. Brenda I'm goin' home and I'll have all the fun by myself. Of course Brenda came with me as I knew she would.
Those long summer nights it seemed to take it a long time to get dark so we had a very nervous wait. Then of course it was a long time before the boys settled down and went to sleep. At least we thought they were asleep. Come on Brenda lets go. We were going to pull up the flap and throw in some water we had in a bucket, but first we were gonna' scratch on the sides of the tent. We got sticks and started scratchin' on both sides of the tent and trying to growl. But that is when we found out our Brothers were gettin' smart. They were laying in wait for us. We scratched and growled then went to the front and opened the flap to throw in the water. But the water came back on us cause the boys grabbed the bottom of the bucket and pushed up and emptied the water into our faces. Then we felt something crawling on us and we just came unwound, unhinged, and undone. We were dancin' and screamin' and just so scared we both wet our pants. The boys were laughin' so hard they were holdin' their bellies and out of breath. The things crawlin on us were little green garden snakes. Harmless except to two girls who had just had their plan backfire on them. We weren't really scared of the snakes but it was the surprise of the whole thing. We looked back and My Mama and Daddy were standing at the door laughing their heads Off. WELL HOW DARE THEY ALL LAUGH LIKE THAT!! And how did those boys know we were planning that anyway. HUH? How? Brenda someone told them was it you? Heck no Clydene do you think I'd come out here and know they were a'gonna' do that. We accused our parents then but they swore they didn't do it. The boys said they laid in the tent and watched us put the water bucket there earlier and figured it out. So they put the snakes in the bucket and just waited on us. Since Mama and Daddy didn't come runnin' to check out what was wrong I still think maybe they knew what was going to happen. I guess Norman and Paul were gettin smarter, and our Parents knew us well enough to know to expect something like that. Yep! Our Brothers were gettin' sneaky but they learned from pros' now didn't they. YEP!!!