Else Hides In The Christmas Decorations

 Grandma Lu had accepted the challenge from Marlee and Grandma B. They had sent her a letter more or less saying that they didn't think that she could write a story just by looking at a few pictures of an enchanted forest that they had made in Grandma B's kitchen at Christmas time.
Grandma Lu had decided to show them that she could in fact write a story about most anything. She had thought about her friend's little dog, Poppy. He was a little scamp and seemed to get into mischief at every twist and turn. The last that she had heard he had been digging underneath a shed in their back yard making a mess of the yard and himself. In fact he really didn't smell very nice!

"Okay, old girl, think. Something is making that little dog dig like that. He's also chewing on the shed doors. Why would a dog do that if there wasn't either something in the shed or under the shed that he wants to get at. Hmm, yes. Christmas decorations are probably stored out there in the shed. Yes, there just might be something in those boxes that he is trying to get at. What would make a good story, let me think. This is harder than I thought it would be."

While Grandma Lu was trying to think of a story to write, one of the dogs in Poppy's neighborhood was helping to pack away Christmas decorations. Buddy packed his favorite Christmas toy so that he could have it again next year. He just loved that toy, but he thought it would be fun to get it out of the box when his lady decorated for Christmas again. Besides that he liked to help his lady.

What Buddy didn't know was that the little elf, Else, that had been at Marlee's house had heard the H.E.L.P. alarm and had stowed away in his lady's decorations along with his toy. She had somehow managed to catch a ride with another elf friend, Buzz, that had jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. They had landed safely thank goodness. However, he landed right at the entrance of the hole that Poppy had dug. She had landed at Buddy's living room under the Christmas tree. So she had decided to jump in the box of Christmas decorations. She was certain Buddy's lady was going to put her Christmas decorations outside in her shed too. Poppy's shed was just across the fence from Buddy's shed. Else figured it wouldn't be a bit difficult to quickly join her friends at Poppy's shed.

I don't think that Else knew that Poppy went outside at all times of the day and night on his adventures. She also didn't know that Poppy had a really big friend that lived with him. Her name was Bella. She was so big that she took up most of the room on their sofa. Hopefully Else makes it safely to the shed before either Poppy or Bella goes outside.