The “House Critters” Blue Booby’s’ Outing

 

  Normally the house critters did things together, so where Henrietta Bobbie Bunny was so were the rest of the gang that included Blue Booby, Big Bunny, Ducky Duck and Rainy Reindeer. Today started out different, as Blue was missing when the rest of them got up.

  He had actually planned this yesterday and knew Bob would go outside early today. When Bob went out to the kitchen he noticed that the ten dollar bill he had put on the counter to give the delivery guys that were coming later a tip was not there and wondered about it while he went out to get the emptied trash can. Blue had decided on a trip to the Apple Barrel for donuts. Sounds like a funny place to go for donuts, but they make very tasty apple cider donuts that are rolled in sugar and cinnamon.  He remembered Ducky’s issue with crossing the street and had a similar problem. The Apple Barrel was on the opposite side of the street, but the sidewalk that went all the way up the street to it was on their side of the street. It made sense that all sidewalk beat going through some lawns and being in the road for the last part of the walk, which by the way was all uphill!

 Blue waddled like a duck, but much faster as he had longer legs which were good, because it was three times as far away as Ducky had gone on his walk to the outlet.  On this side of the street there were two streets to cross and just like Ducky he knew to look both ways and then check again, because cars were sneaky. The first side street had no traffic, however, the second one was busy at this time of morning and he had to wait for a lot of cars. If Blue had understood the small flashing lights on the cars he could have crossed much sooner, but better to be slowed down than run over. Finally he could see the place, but now the walk got quite steep and Blue decided to go even father up on the hill to see traffic better. When Blue got to the crossing spot he could look both ways at the same time and after a few cars went by got across just fine.

  There were quite a few humans in the shop and when one came out Blue went in, this was necessary as the knob on the screen door was impossible for a critter with a beak and no paws, if it had been a handle he would have been fine. The human behind the counter got him a half dozen donuts and Blue passed her the money he had brought, she noticed that the change might be a problem and put it in a small plastic bag that went into the bag with the donuts. Ducky picked up the bag in his beak and she let him out the door. Now he had to get back home, which started out with getting back across the street.  Luck was with him, when he got to the chosen crossing place there was no traffic and he just waddled across to the sidewalk. Everyone thinks that going downhill is easier then uphill, but according to web footed critters like Ducky and Blue this is not true.  Blue found that the bag of donuts was hitting him on every step, so he tried carrying it under a wing. This was better, but he knew he looked silly with one wing next to his body and the other bumped out like a human with a back pack under their arm. By now he was at the cross street that was very busy on the way up the street, it was empty so not only did he just cross it he also did the same at the next one.

  In the house the rest of the critters had looked all over for Blue. Of course they looked upstairs, but they were so concerned they even looked in the basement. Well at least they called out his name from the bottom stair step, because the basement scared all of them. It was then that the doorbell rang scaring the heck out of them and a mad dash up the stairs into the kitchen just as Barb was coming to open the door. There was a commotion when they saw it was Blue and an even bigger one when they found out he had donuts for them. Turned out the nice lady at the shop had given him a bakers half dozen, which was seven, meaning that critters and humans got donuts. Bob at this time realized where the money he had left on the kitchen counter had gone, but it had been used for a good cause so he did not scold Blue!