Gretta journals by fire light

After a much needed rest in that cozy bed, warmed by peppermint under the tea cozy Gretta snuck down the banister to the fire out back of Aunt Dee's house. The Tea Rat sat quite writing his letter which inspired Gretta from Gothere to take her red pen out and put quill to paper. In order to continue ones journey to Nowhere a list of affirmations was needed. Thinking about love, fear, giving, surrendering, peaceful thoughts, nothing being impossible and great resistance, Gretta wrote out her mindful thoughts. Something about the fire...made it all seem so real. She was not even afraid, nor did she pay much attention to the human that seem to pass by. Star gazing into the flame, Gretta made her mind up, she was in for the journey, no matter how long it took. She would never let her friends down.

Tea Break

Ahhhhhh.....bellows the Tea Rat as he sips his last cup of tea for the evening. He decided to step away from all the merrymaking activity at the bonfire and has taken to his pen. These last couple of weeks in Nowhere has led to somewhere very special; he has decided to write a letter to a very dear lady, the Dutchess, who at the moment is in the land of somewhere and is truly missed. How delighted she will be to see her beloved friends again and we shall be equally thrilled to hear her sweet voice.

Dearest Dutchess, come home soon.

Tea

Oh! How about a match of bowling while we wait for the Dutchess?



Rattus Scribus ribbed his old friend Tea Rat: "Well, TR, it looks like you succeeded in stumbling upon the ball, ho..ho..ho; producing forthwith the momentous event of knocking over a solitary pin.

"My dear fellow, you will need to practice quite diligently at (what did you call it? booling?) if you are ever going to get what my city friends call, game. Do bool again. Get game. Yes, yes. And I'll have another cup of tea, there's a good fellow."

The front door stood open a crack so Mozes walked into the friendly house of Aunt Dee's. There on the table was a huge punch bowl just waiting for the Nowhere travelers. It twas though dear Aunt Dee knew they were coming, but how? A note stood proud at the bottom of the punch bowl. The Tea Rat picked it up in his paws and read: A bowl of Punch, for the bunch, With Love, from Wisteria Aunt Dee. Miss Moussee and Gretta from Nowhere climbed up, up and round and round the swirling staircase and found the bed they'd both been waiting for...nap time! A quilt for each one had been layed out and a note was placed on top of the blue one that read: Cozy down my friends, and sleep until there's no end. With Love, from Wisteria Aunt Dee.

Miss Moussee yawned and trotted over to turn out the bedside lamp and what should she see...but thee! There on the nightstand etched in ceramic and standing with tea cup in hand was a ceramic Miss Moussee, wheeeee!

Lifting the lid of the tea pot, sweet cinnamon tea was hot and ready for sipping. Miss Moussee blinked at Gretta and Gretta blinked at Miss Moussee...what to make of this magical Wisteria Aunt Dee?

Who in the world is Aunt Dee?

Oh jolly good Mozes...You lead us down the path, over those stepping stones jolly fella and we arrive at Aunt Dee's house? The sign said "Wisteria Aunt Dee". Whoever could she be? Tea Rat chomping on some left over blue cheese squares has declared.."the place looks empty, no DEE here! Could this jolly well be Nowhere?" Looks like that nursery rhyme called Billy Goats Gruff with that old goat fella hangin' out chomping on the hay! Oh me, oh my...there's a little swing for you and I. Miss Moussee ran quick as a wink up to the houssee and asked Mozes to lift her up to sit on that swing in Nowhere. We are in Nowhere or Yeswhere...where do you think we are Mozes bear? Give me a push please so I can see the tree tops!

Lookkkeeeee...laughed Gretta from Gothere...I see a glass ball tat says WELCOME....ooooo...la....la...so perty!

Looks like a joint girls hang out at..lavender and wisteria? It stinks said Raccoon! Lets get out of here, this couldn't be Nowhere..nohow, nowhere!

Ah shoot, said Mozes. I don't wanna leave yet...I'm tired. Maybe there's a door or window we could climb in and take a bear nap. It's the best kind of nap...It's Autumn after all, our bellies are all plumb full...perhaps we should hibernate!

WHAT? Said the group in one voice...hibernate? Now?

I'm sleepy too said Gretta. Jolly goooood ider.

The missing one

Tea Rat and Moses had already forgotten all about Mr. Raccoon and everyone was lost once again. To complicate things another little fellow show up the other day and little everyone knew of how much sorrow he was facing , but friendship is made from gold strands and kindness has no price.... A wise Rat told this fellow that " We need to speak and have someone that will listen silently and keep it silent". You know ... that was Tea rat of course... have you ever meet any other kind rat like him before?

Too much..

This is too much for me ..said Mozes..I feel kind of small next to this long legged creature...I want to get out of here...Quick,Tea,give me that cookie,Gretta,give me your hand....Tea,hold on to me...on the count of three we will all take a bite..and then we shall see...what happens...
-O ,giggled Gretta...but I KNOW what happens..told you...we travel into the nothing.....your history..only if you browse your memory you can find yourself back..
-That's abacadabra to me..said Tea..I am not into that kind of stuff..but I am willing to try..its beginning to get a bit crowded here..
-Oke then...Gretta, is there anything more we should now before we take a bite,asked Mozes.
-We have so SAFE ourselfs first,said Gretta...so we can get back here anytime we want and continuo our travel to Nowhere..you can do that by calling 'SAFE NOW'..and your all set to browse yourself back into memory land..
-O,I love intelligent woman..smiled Tea...its so exiting...
-Dear Tea,I do believe you are blushing...said Mozes...now, dear friends ,no time to lose..ready steady.....safe NOW.. and...go.....

And there they went...on the count of three...of into the nothing...is this it..are they gone for ever...what do we do next..sign out..exit..scroll..or is there another option...lets browse our memory..

Swingin' those banana hips, yeah, yeah yeah!

Tea Rat, don't look yet...but we have an audience! I think those boys want to cut in and dance with me...will ye look at tat, rat a tat tat..here comes that big blubber dubber hippo! Please don't let that McGee the Ape swing me from limb to limb Tea Rat...Your big and strong...

Oh no, exclaimed dear little Gretta from Gothere...those bad boys from Underthere are coming our way...look at the tree with spots...I don't even know him...save me Tea Rat!!!

The Dancing Rat

And there they were, doing the Tea Rat jive, when the Tea Rat broke into the Banana Split and shook his little hips...

Rat....with a Tea...

The Tea rat was in a very Jolly mood...'My sweet Gretta',he said with a hickup..'will you do me the honor and dance with me..?
-O, how sweet of you ,smiled Gretta..I never danced with a mouse before..
-Rat...said Rat..with a Tea...and then he grabbed Gretta and they both did the Tea Rat Jive in the meadow..
Mozes stood there watching...he sure would like to join them..him being a dancing bear...Maybe he could do a little line dance with Raccoon......But where was Raccoon..
-My dear friend Rat,said Mozes...did you see Raccoon...sweet Gretta do you now where our bandit is hiding..?
In the middle of a magnificent twirl Gretta and the Tea stopped there dancing moves..
-What's that..said Gretta..I stepped in something sticky...
The Tea rat ,being the gentle man that he is, said..'let me remove this stickyness my lady'..and picked it up...
-A cookie...giggled Gretta...its just like the cookie Raccoon found...And I know it can make you disappear in the nothing..
-In the nothing..please, Nowhere is enough for me ,said Mozes...and do you think Raccoon is now to be found in the nothing..?
We do..answered Tea rat and Gretta....Maybe we should nibble from this cookie and follow Raccoon....And the Tea Rat held the cookie in front of Mozes...after you dear friend..

IT'S PARTY TIME

The music grew louder and swelled to a cacophony of voices both jolly and bombastic. The little troupe entered into the thicket up the road and at the end was a sweet little cottage; they ambled their way in and were greeted by a jovial woman, plump and beet red from laughter and a bit much to drink. The friends sat down and ordered a pint EACH.



After a wonderful evening of ale, friendship and storytelling, the Tea Rat led the way out and stumbled upon his blue heaven....



"STOP! WAIT! Let's just stop in for a minute to see what they have..." Mozes gently grabbed his little friend and suggested they get back on the road for Miss Moussie was waiting in anticipation of her friends' return in time for the great feast of bugs and other luscious delicacies!

Ready, set....Go...to Nowhere...

Linking pinkie fingers and paws the friends started on their journey again. Nowhere was nowhere but they all believed it was somewhere. Gretta from Gothere had seen all sorts of signs and maps to Nowhere but they never seemed to go anywhere. With hope in their hearts, they followed their leader Mozes through the mushroom glen and back again. Up the stairs to up there and down the other side to Nowhere.

Loookieee...cried Gretta...hand prints in the cobblestone! I do believe I've nees I mean seen those before...why, do they look like sometin I've nees before? Tea Rat, Raccoon and Mozes were all bewildered, and none had an answer to be found.

Gretta looking right, left and up and down and under the Trillium plant exclaimed...We are on our way, out of the wons, those are MY PRINTS...I've been ye here before!

There's the musical note! I can hear the music to Nowhere!

With Gretta now in the lead, the friends wandered ahead...up the rocks! Gretta said...I no it, no it, no it...to Nowhere...

Tough..

'When the going gets tough the tough get going'...Thats what Mozes said to his troup after they pulled Gretta out of the wons...Come on you guys...lets move on and find our way to Nowhere..
-I like it here..sniffled Raccoon..MMMmmm ,the smell of adventure..O,what's that laying on the ground...it looks like a cookie....HMMFH..a very tough cookie..
-Please,old chap...you shouldn't eat things you find on the ground..you don't know were its been before..warned Tea rat..but....to late..
Before there eyes they saw Raccoon disappear..

The Snow Queen

Boo hoo, yahooo.....booo...hoooo cried Gretta Gothere. I woulda shoulda gone to Gothere or Nowhere but I saw that sign in the wons in the woods...I jist can't help meself, cuz I boo hoo, yahoo...booo...hooo...I jist wanted to follow yer path to that SNOW QUEEN...I wanna wisit the Snow Queen! I couldn't, wouldn't shouldn't but I DID!
I saw the path in thee wons and part of me wanna to rescue Tea Tar, I mean Tea Rat, but then I wanna to wisit the SNOW QUEEN...what am I to do Racoon and mee bear Mozes? I think I did the right or wrong or left or right thing! I follow the path, I follow that sign....

and I found myself in the Snow Mine! All of dudden I was deep down that path, and found meself in the wons. I waved and hooted and gave a squeak and a yipe but off you all went following yer noses...to the smell of the harvest.

I jist turned upside down, I was so scared around...The Snow Queen was nowhere to be found, where's Nowhere? Is yit down here?

I SMELL SOMETHING GOOD!

Oh I know that wonder aroma anywhere! It's Gustave's cooking, and it is coming from Mr. C.'s labyrinth's kitchen! IT'S THE HARVEST DINNER AND WE ARE GOING TO MISS IT!!

Quickly, Mozes, we must run before they start without us! How are we ever going to get a letter over to Miss Moussie to tell her that we are slightly detained for a while, until we can find our way out of NOWHERE?

You see, everyone decided to put me on a leash, so that we could stay close together, especially after my little incident with the snow....



And now, we can't decide which way to go! I say left, Mozes says right; Racoon says go back from where we came and Gretta is in tears! We'll be there as soon as we come to an agreement at the crossroads! However, we know that we are near because the scent of pumpkin pie is calling us home!!

All for one and one for all..

Now being a company of four..our friends promised to be forever friends and help and protect each other on this wonderful but strange road to Nowhere..
They reached the highest pot..sorry..top...together, and from there they waited until dark to greet the moon....and to travel by the light and guidance from the stars...but look what they found on the highest top..WONS...
-Oh,...look old chaps....said the Tea rat, arriving first...'Snow'!
-You mean wons..giggled Gretta..
-Yes,said Mozes with a big smile...how I love wons...I think I will stay here for a while and take a wons bath..its very refreshing ...
And so they did..they took a wons bath and made a wons stateu..a wons ratbearraccoongretta...engraved with the words...written by raccoon in wons...All for one and one for all...

However, as the little troop gathered themselves together to continue their journey, they heard a faint and muddled cry:"HELP! HELP! MOZES! RACOON! GRETTA!"



Racoon turned to see that the Tea Rat was frozen from the top of his furry head to the tips of his little toes...Racoon cried out, "Here, over here everyone! All for one and one for all!" Mozes heaved and hoed and was able to turn the Tea Rat on his side; Gretta scraped off the hard ice from his eyes and the Racoon made a nice little fire and put on the tea. "Thanks old chap" said the Tea Rat as he managed to issue out some words between his chattering little teeth. You are truly my friends. Let us carry on!

Tissy my lil giddy wizzy....

Whattsa up there big Mozes Bear? I don't member seeing that sign to nowhere....do we go write, I mean trite, or right or left at that sign upthere that spells whattsa say, hey..L E U C H F E U R E R...Is that the CBA...or the ABC spelled backwards Mozes Bear? Oh dares dos bears! They don't lookie anting like you Mozes bear? Whats wrong or write, I mean trite, or rightttttttttttt with those bears...they are FROZEN in time, oh me oh my! Lets git outta here!

Calm your little heart strings dear Gretta from Gothere. I'm not afraid of those small lil' bears. Were on our journey, come ye all along...we have the hill to climb to where we belong! Here's some huckleberries, they always calm dear Gretta down. Ride on my shoulder, and do not fear...MOZES BEAR IS HERE!

Oh for pitty sake, exclaimed the Tea Rat, another goose convention in our way...I'll make them move, out of my way!

There it tissy...my lil giddy wizzy...I'd like to play there on the way to nowhere! First one to the pot, I mean, spot, no I mean...TOP is a frozen biggggggg bear! We must wait for Tea Rat to return from his mission and then we'll all laugh our way to the POT, ha...I mean TOP, oh Gretta your so good at wishin!

A room with a view

-A Lady,a lady in our midst...Raccoon did a little rascal dance out of sheer joy and bliss...
-I say,I say calm down old chap...you will scare the lady away with that fancy footwork..said the Tea Rat...lets be polite and invite the lady for a cup of tea..
-I hate tea ,said Gretta,whilst she gave her big bear friend Mozes a big bear hug..just can't stand it...but let me invite you all to my house to eat EIP,the Gothere speciality...
-EIP?...The Tea rat and Raccoon looked at each other..Eip...?
-O,pardon my french..giggled Greta..I ment Pie...I sometimes speak in riddles...word puzzles...bear tongue.
O,how marvelous ,said the Tea rat...my favorite game...I am great with words you know, I am a poet..!
And there Mozes,Raccoon,the Tea Rat,and Gretta,where off to Bleu Billows..a house,way up there..and you mustn't be afraid of hights to go there.....way up there..in a eert...

IT'S....a what ya deget, gidget blue billows?

Look! I see a sign...could it be a hint to nowhere or is it a hint to somewhere overthere or underthere, it's overthere...what is Blue Billows? Where are you Mozes? Help us please we need your noses and pawses to guide us there... I see blue, or is it purple overthere. What in the world Mozes is it a bear??? Two bears??? Is it the three bears? Hide behind that rock, I smell a something....sweet, like honey...no no said Mozes...it smells kinda funny...overthere, and underthere, get behindthere I say!

Shhhhh....ITS not a bear I smell....IT'S sweeter than an ever bear...Lets not tell Miss Moussie, shes safe in her houssie...lets get out of here!

Over that bridge behind the big rock, it will take us to the Hollyhocks. We passed them there...oh what do I see sittin there? IT'S underthere, I see some underwear...something is hidding...there...I smell IT, it's a she some kind of bear! "WHERE? Racoon wailed? I'm scared!"

Shes in a little house, is it a mouse? Is it a bear? Oh land, Oh me, oh my...let me laugh until I cry said Mozes the bear...IT'S just my friend Gretta from the land of Gothere! I'm as happy as a bee stuck in honey! Yahoo...riddly rah...Hi Gretta Gothere! Mozes the bear, at your service!

ITS...

Olleh ereht...gnol emit on ees...gnol emit on raeh...gnol emit on klat..gnol emit enog....Nac ouy pleh em tuo fo ereh ym dneirf ...
-I can't understand a word ITS saying..said the Tea Rat...
-What's an ITS...asked Raccoon curious...never saw an ITs before...
-I don't know ,said the rat..we have to wait and see when ITS emerging..
-When ITS..what?...And Raccoon tried to stick his head into the hole to see what exactly an ITs could be..