with tots...meeting the dogs.........

Ahhh another day and yet more adventures here on the farm. But first I must tell you about our evening after the great Tot Rescue! Oh my what a great adventure that was. And to think that I found one of the wee dears!! There she was all covered with dry leaves to try and hide her little self. The poor little thing just clung to me when I plucked her from the forest floor.

We carried our little refugees back to the house. There we all soothed and petted them. Cousin Ida produced little blankets to wrap them in and soon they were nodding off. The girls and I had a lovely dinner and spent the evening just getting better acquainted. I must admit I had expected this part of my journey to be rather quiet and dare I say...dull, but so far I have not had one moment to catch my breath much less become bored!!

True to their word Cousin Ida and Hitty Joy Too charge of the tots. This morning they were presented to us all bathed and dressed in sweet little frocks. The tots range in age from a wee infant to an older girl. I have been asked if I would like one of the tots to accompany me on my further journeys. Oh my I am quite pleased that I have this opportunity to select a traveling companion.
Cousin Ida relieved my mind when she said that the tots would all find good homes and that I should not worry about that. Instead I am to choose the one that I felt would most suit. After some consideration and much chatting with the dears I believe the older girl will be a most suitable companion. I can continue her education and be both a mentor and guardian to her. She is quite thrilled to learn that she will be traveling the country with me. I believe that I have done exactly the right thing. Cousin Ida informed me that she agreed totallly with my choice. She felt the child would benefit from travel and being in my company. I am quite flattered by her good opinion of me. Oh it is time to take a bit of lunch and then the girls have told me I will be meeting their dogs?!! Dogs???










......meeting the dogs....

We had a very pleasant luncheon. It is so warm and lovely today. The girls have told me that I am now going to meet their dogs.
Much to my surprise I have learned that they have a German Shepherd Rescue!! I have never heard of Hittys being involved in that sort of thing. These are large dogs and I confess to being a bit nervous about this introduction.

We repaired to the patio and the girls brought out there charges. Oh my there was nothing to be concerned about! There are puppies...oh sweet puppies. The mother dog seemed friendly but did keep a close eye on her babies and whomever (me) was holding them! The other adult dogs were simply charming. So gentle and affectionate. We all gathered round and they went from one to the other of us for pats and play. I was quite taken with them, but especially with that youngest puppy! I hope that their will be dogs at my forever home. Perhaps I can persuade my future person to acquire a nice puppy for me!
We spent a peaceful afternoon just chatting and playing with the dogs. They love to chase balls. Tomorrow I am off on a trip to a wood carving class. I am very interested to see this as I myself was carved from wood. I will be writing more tomorrow. Until then I bid you all a good evening.

...The woods...

It is time to begin our foray into the woods...my goodness they are rather forbidding! I find it hard to believe that these Hittys tramp about out there on a nearly daily basis!! I believe this is going to be quite an adventure!!




Noel has taken me aside to ask that I be her companion on the walk. She has never been into the woods either!! The other Hittys are simply amazed that she has gathered her courage to do so with me. She is a sweet little dear, perhaps this will help her with her self confidence.




It is so warm out today that we do not need our wraps. We all begged to be allowed to come out without bonnets and Cousin Ida relented but she insisted that we all wear aprons to protect our dresses and for tot gathering??? What indeed is tot gathering? She and Hitty Joy explained all to us . The tots are wee hickory orphans that are in danger of being eaten by squirrels!! How barbaric. Lilfe in the country is a precarious thing. At any rate they can be found concealed beneath leaves and in the crevices of trees. We are to search carefully for they are often too frightened to cry out to us for help. And if we do find one we can gather it into our aprons to comfort the wee thing. I am so excited to begin.



We are diligent in our search.




oH look, under the leaves!


So this is what our aprons are for!! to wrap our tots in! We shall carry them back to the house to safety. Cousin Ida and Hitty Joy have clothing for them and we will all cuddle them and calm them. What a wonderful adventure. How exhilarating! I quite feel like a missionary!! More tomrrow my dear readers, as I am sure we will be busy for the rest of the day.

....In which I recieve a new cape and bonnet.....

After the excitement of my arrival, Cousin Ida suggested that the Hitty's all have a little lie down and rest. I confess that a
nap and some quiet sounded rather lovely to me also. Cousin Ida awakened me a bit later with a hot cup of tea and a sweet tartlet. I was so refreshed that I felt able to handle the rest of the day. These girls are so enthusiastic!!

I mentioned earlier that there was a good deal of concern regarding my lack of proper outerwear. Cousin Ida measured me and then their person got to work. She is very indulgent towards these girls, I suspect they might be a tad spoiled.

A little later they all gathered round while Cousin Ida made the last adjustments. I do feel rather fetching in thise new cap and bonnet.
Hitty Noel selected the color to complement my complexcion and I believe she has been quite successful. This cape is quite snug. I feel certain that I shall be able to survive in a blizzard!! I feel a bit guilty because all of a sudden the weather has turned warm!! The girls assure me that I will need it later in the year and they are just relieved that I have it in my box for the future.









Tomorrow we are off to the woods! I am quite excited about this as I have been informed that we will be on a rescue mission! We will be looking for orphan tots. I am not at all sure what a tot is but I expect to find out on the morrow. I must close now and go have a bite of dinner with my hosts.

Hitty Molly Arrives at Sherry

The box arrived to great excitement! Molly Marie must be in there..."can you hear us Molly Marie" . The County HIttys could not wait patiently while their person opened the box!






Molly we will have you out of there in a jiffy!!




There, there you are with friends now...take a deep breath...



The Country Hittys greet their house guest. We were all surprised that the very shy Hitty Noel was eager to whisper in Molly Maries ear. all the Hittys have been excited about the visit but Noel has been especially anxious to meet Molly.

Hitty Molly saying Goodbye to The Rock Bottom Hitties

Hello to all my friends and family,
I am about to depart on my journey to meet Sherry and Cousin Ida, Oh my I forget so many names, but I guess that would be exspected as I have not met them in person yet. So forgive me please for not naming each one of you. I do look forward to arriving there and meeting you all.
It looks as if my trip may have rain on the way. It has gotten cooler also since my journey began.
Tina and Hitty Mary kindly made me a new dress with long sleeves and an apron to match.




I appreciate it and think the colors are rather autumn looking. So now I have 2 dresses and wonder what may be added to my treasures as I travel along.
I have already spoken on the Fall Festival/Halloween party,so will only say, it was so much fun gathering all we needed to have a grand time that evening. Wouldn't it be nice to have partys all the time.
Oh but how tired we would be. Tina has packed my travel box and is awaiting time for her to take me to the PO to catch the Postal Bus. I think I have a little over an hour before I depart.
So with all this said, I will close and spend a few minutes saying my goodbyes to all here at ROck Bottom Hittys.
With much love to you all, Hitty Molly Marie

P.S. I will be sure to have Tina send photos as soon as she returns from the PO..

Hitty Molly and The Rock Bottom Party

Hello my Hitty friends,
I have been busier than I think I ever have these past few days. When Tina couldn't get around to making travel plans she asked if a party that had never been had here woudl suffice.. I of course was all into it as I have never had a Halloween party. We sat and talked amongst us Hitty's and Bittys and of course Tina. We planned the party, the costumes and the food to be served.
After all that we got down to business. I helped go thru fabric and see what we could use to make each costume. She allowed us to chose which costume we would like to wear. I chose the Candy Corn, as it is my favorite candy, as of now anyway. Hitty Ernestina, chose to be a Clown with a red nose. Hitty Molly (love that we have the same name) chose to be a Gaint Pumpkin. Hitty Mary chose to be a Witch. The Bitty's, JimBob and Stella chose a Mouse and Little Red Ridinghood. Stella is really upset though, she has misplaced her basket of goodies she was to carry to Granny. We keep telling her, she will find it, but she is still sad faced.
We helped to prepare the food also. We chose the menu. I of course asked for Candy Corn, Mary wanted candy apples,Ernestina chose M&M's, Molly (the other Molly) chose the spider cupcakes,JimBob wanted the cake decorated with a pumpkin face, and Stella well she wanted some of everything, but finally decided on the peanutbutter cookies with orange filling.
After we had all the menu, the costumes, it was time to make decorations and decide what games we would play.
We drew and cut out, bats, ghosts, pumpkins and the Pin the Tail on the Donkey game. And we also pulled out the fishing game, checkers, and had a grand time playing hide and go seek.
I know alot of people would think this would be a very boring trip but all in all, I have been pleasantly surprised at just how much love this family of Hitty's has.. I have heard it said, "All Hitty families are full of love." What a grand thought.
I will be busy again this weekend with the human size celebrating with the family and then next week I will be getting my travel arranged to go on to the next family. I will be sure to let you all know when I am leaving on the Postal Bus.
I do hope you all have enjoyed seeing the photos, and that you each of a very fun unscary Halloween.
Hitty Hugs to you all, Hitty Molly Marie

Hitty Molly Arrives in North Carolina

Hitty Molly Marie arrived today on the Postal Bus. As soon as they heard the postman toot the horn to annouce she was here, they were all scampering around screaming, She's here! She's here!




> Of course they all were wringing their little wooden mitten hands while I carefully opened the package. And as soon as the top was open they all ran to meet her. Well, it was more like 3 of them. Some were busy still cleaning the house to make sure it was presentable.






> Ernestina made the introductions, and welcomed her here to visit and slipped a sweet quietly spoken, and I hope you find this to be your forever home, but if not, we will always consider you a family member.
> I tried to explain to them all before her arrival that she is traveling around the country to find her forever home. She is meeting Hitty's and people from all over the U.S.
> My girls said, She would be welcome to stay here, if she so choses. With that behind us, I am thinking my Hitty's will be slipping her all kinds of ideas of how she would love living with them.
> And of course they all had to ask what it was like to meet a mayor and mortician to boot.She told them all about how nice he was and he was even nice enough to proclaim the 13th of October as Hitty Molly Marie Mahogany Day. Such a wonderful thing. And it didn't go to her head, as she is such a sweet Hitty.
> Well, we are off to make our plans and see what we can do to entertain her while she visits us. We will send photos later on this afternoon.
> Hugs from the Rock Bottom Hittty's and Tina
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> P.S. Molly Marie asked that we tell you after she rest some, she will be sending a post on her travels.

Oct. 23, 2010

Hi Everyone,
I wanted to take a quick rest and send a note letting you all know I haven't forgotten any of you, I have been busy, busy... I helped make cotumes for everyone. I can't wait to show you the photos, but of course that will have to wait until we have the halloween, fall harvest party. We are going to be working on making cakes and treats the first of the week. This Rock Bottom crowd sure has kept me busy.
We helped a little with moving Tina's craft room. She had moved to the room her son had, and he is moving back and she had to evacuate the room asap. We mostly cheered her on.. And watched for anything that may be of help in making our party a success.
I am going to travel tomorrow to meet Tommy's parents. His moma loves Hitty. It will be a nice trip I am told. All the other Hitty's here love to visit them.
We are hoping for a few minutes to go and see a lake here that has a walking trail. We shall see. If not tomorrow, we will be going soon.
Well, I need to prepare for bed. I will be sure to remind Tina to take the camera,so you all can see what goes on in this small town.
Hitty Hugs, Molly Marie




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