Spring is Just Around the Corner
When most people see Pussy Willows their first thought is that SPRING is just around the corner. When I see Pussy Willows my first thought is about my sister.
In an attempt to be funny and play a trick on my mother my younger sister took two of the pussy willow buds off a branch and stuck them in her nose just far enough to make them look like they were bugars hanging out of her nose.
Then she went up to my mother, pretended to sneeze, and then looked directly at my mom with the pussy willows hanging there dangling out of her nose. My mother looked at her quickly and said ” Uggh – here you need a tissue”. My sister was so thrilled that she had tricked my mom that she started to laugh and laugh and then she laughed so hard…she snorted and sent those two pussy willows straight up her nostrils. Her eyes got really huge and all her laughter stopped immediately. ” Mommy, those weren’t bugars they were pussy willows and they are stuck up there”.
No amount of prying, pulling or picking was dislodging those things loose. They used a spoon to widen her nostrils and poked tweezers in there, it looked very scientific but those buds weren’t budging. It seems that the fuzzy part of the pussy willows were absorbing the moisture in her nose and getting bigger and harder to dislodge. In fact with the tools they had gathered from the bathroom and kitchen they only thing there were doing were pushing the buds further up her nose. Now, my sister started to panic ” how will they get out - I can’t breathe, I am going to die”. (She’s a little dramatic!) My mom told her ”relax, we will go down to your dad’s office and he will get them out”. Now my sister really freaked out ” I can’t go down there – I don’t want anyone to know about this”. My dad was a family doctor and had no doubt performed this delicate operation on some other really stupid kid who liked to put things up his or her nose. In fact, I bet you could write a book on the things that kids shove up their nose. But I bet they aren’t 17 and a senior in high school. Way to go little sister!!
Faux Farm Girl
Annie