Emergency -- Chapter 4 of Holiday Dressing

ENTRY #5

We heard because of the lack of snow...  there is a universal call for alternative Christmas delivery.  For all those areas without the fluffy white stuff.. Santa is holding auditions for wheeled vehicles to carry gifts :)

Here is my special Fiona - hoping to help out Rudolph !

Try outs with Santa are not a thing to be sneezed at-- we need to be on our toes -- or hooves....

Outfits and carts need to be top notch !!


 Here is our first rehearsal for the big day ~

A few quiet words to calm Fee's  stage fright.

I think she's going to be fine...

Auditions entail so much more than good acting and knowing your job...  everyone needs to be properly attired.. even the helpful elves.  I am so busy holiday dressing carts and horse and my elves... I barely have time for my own Christmas apparel.

Since it's been so long since Miss Fiona has been hitched (over a year I think ) - we did some "ground driving" before the real thing...  certainly we do not want this drill to go badly and receive bad reviews for a poor performance.

Already - I see the nose is an issue.



If beauty was the only thing being judged... we'd be home free :)

here we see a nose

here we don't

what an imp....









ok -   it's now or never...

time to hitch and see if we are qualified to deliver gifts.  ready for a run-through.

I know the helper elf should perhaps be smaller than Santa..but I like wearing the boss suit better.

Don't Fee and me and Zoe make a good team ?

you can notice, I'm sure, we have loads of wind today and still Fiona is holding up well with the stress of her 'recital'  and the new costume..... if Fiona can manage to keep it all on !

Here we go -- down the road for a little dry run -- just to test out the whole delivery thing

We still might get some snow ---  and then, of course, we'll be rehearsing with the customary red sleigh... so that just may be another chapter. Tonight, I'm dreaming of my horse the tree morphing into a huge present :)  hmmmnnn... I wonder ......

Betsy and Zoe and OYY Fiona  - preparing for a green/brown Christmas in Vermont