Fairies, Wishes And Soccer

Yesterday was a hot and hazy day. Even the Three Witches looked like they were LA buildings.

But family drama does not care about weather.

The problem with having three grans around is that you must do everything in threes.

For example, Lisa came up with the idea of replacing a lost quartz necklace for Scarlett by having the Faeries leave it as a gift in the tree copse in exchange for the girls building a Faerie Garden and expanding their kingdom to the neighboring Old Man. Of course the other two were wondering where their quartz necklaces were. Indeed, they then left the same kind of letters Scarlett had left at the Faerie Garden. Only they had a thinly veiled threat of legal action. Thank God for Amazon. We were able to get them yesterday but not until after the very disappointed girls went out in the early morning and found that not only were there no necklaces but their letters were not even read.

Luckily, the necklaces arrived while they had hopped the fence to the next door neighbors and Lisa was able to hang them in place before they got back.

Lisa explained in the accompanying faerie letters that the faeries were busy saving Donald Trump from an assassination attempt, but they got to this request as soon as they could. Given that the televisions were filled with that news story for the past 24 hour cycle the grans could appreciate the bravery in real time.

Scarlett seemed happy when she measured her necklace stone against the sisters and found that hers was slightly larger. Primogeniture.

To make up for the delay, the fairies threw in a really cool wall lamp for the girls (temporary) bedroom, which the girls placed in an asymmetrical spot.

But it’s their dream. However, proper cursive technique requires a third hump on that “m.”

It was so hot by then that even the wasps were sipping from the Jack The Spruce fountain – whose new pump also arrived from Amazon and was installed by this Faerie helper.

Always happy to help out a thirsty pollinator. The feral cats, birds and fox also like to sip from the running water. It’s actually cooler than you would expect because the water drains into a interior hollow where it cools before it pumps back to the top of the fountain. Who knew?

But, having completed my chores, this old mystic was determined to watch the Eurocup finals, and was joined by Lisa and Claire the Mule, who enjoyed the match from her cool(ing) position in the open back door – my electric bill (AC) is going to be huge –

Lisa and I also attempted to watch the Copa America final which was delayed last night over 80 minutes because of less than polite fans without tickets rushing the Miami gates. Still, we were able to watch a very energetic but scoreless match until Messi went out injured in the second half, when upon seeing the GOAT weeping on the bench, we threw in the towel out of empathy (and exhaustion) and went to bed.

Congratulations Argentina on your 1 to 0 win. You did Messi proud.

Well, magic is all well and good, but I hope the girls don’t come around in a few years asking the faeries for their own cars.

Unless those faeries land that movie deal. Otherwise we’ll have to move the Faerie Garden to a secret location without a forwarding address.

Well, it’s Monday again.

I hope you fine, five readers had a relaxing weekend.

We need to finish our coffees and get to work.

Court deadlines to meet.

First, kitties to cuddle and rounds to make.

But no matter what else we get up to, let us make today a great one.