Nogdorf said “You are doing such a wonderful job on the gowns, Merina. I think I will go check on the decorators and the ones in charge of food.”

  On the way to talk with ’s Lesterwife, Bonita, they came upon Millicent. She had a group of honey badgers and other creatures and was drawing on a whiteboard. She made great swooping motions with her arms to illustrate what she was saying. “And we need to hang the lanterns from all four corners of the great forest flats and bring them up to a point in the middle of the dance floor. Team one needs to work on constructing the lanterns out of pretty decorated paper. Team two needs to paint the cherry blossoms and other decorations on the paper. Team three needs to find a way to hang the lanterns. Now we will need a backdrop designed and made for the pictures of the couples.Team four will be responsible for that operation.”

  “Well, Millicent, it appears you have the decorations well under control,” Nogdorf said.

  Lester said, “Let’s go check on Bonita and see what she has planned for us to eat.”

  Bonita had a crowd of rabbits listening to what she had to say. “Could you all let me know what your favorite party food to fix is? My pal, Valorie Rabbit will write down your name and the dish you will be fixing right beside it. Remember, you will need to fix enough so that all of the good creatures will be able to partake.” She looked up and saw Lester and Nogdorf and got so excited that she was stumbling over her words. “Oh, I’m glad you were here. No, I’m glad you are here. We have a wonderful list of delicious foods. One lady is fixing basil, tomato slices and Mozzarella salami, no, that’s not right. Hmm. Oh yeah, Mozzarella cheese. And another lady will make jalapeno poppers and oh, you will just have to wait and see what all we will have. And she went back to talking to her crowd of lady cooks.

  Lester said, “My mouth is watering just thinking about it. Let’s see what other preparations are being made, Nogdorf.

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  They walked up to a group of squirrels who were sewing tiny handkerchiefs to go in the male creatures’ shirt pockets. Judy Squirrel said as they walked up, “Oh dear, I do wish we had carnations to go in the men’s suits. If we only had a month to grow them. I would grow lots of white carnations so we could dye them the color of the men’s suit jackets.”

  Nogdorf looked at Lester and Leter could almost hear him thinking. “Lester would you like to learn a new spell?” Not waiting for Lester to answer, Nogdorf said, “Roll up your sleeves and gather 200 sticks about an inch in diameter.”

  Lester rushed to comply. In no time, he had a pile of sticks in front of Nogdorf. “Now, in this small clearing, I want you to place each stick sticking up in the ground about 6 inches apart. You will need many rows.” After he finished, Nogdorf said, “Ok assume your creative stance with your legs about a foot apart and your knees bent. Now say, as you turn your arms in a circle, ‘Frilly, Frally Frue, Lacey, Loosey,Loo, bring us fields of carnations.’”

  Lester assumed his stance, held his arms out, started turning them and said, “Frilly, Frally Frue, Lacey, Loosey, Loo, bring us fields of carnations.”

  Colorful glitter appeared and slowly swirled around the sticks in the ground. Then it fell to the ground and disappeared. They waited but nothing further happened. A crowd was starting to gather, watching what Lester was doing.

  Nogdorf said, “Try again, Lester, but this time put some umph into it.”

  Lester tried again, “Frilly Frally, Frue, Lacey, Loosey, Loo, bring us fields of carnations,” and they waited. Nothing, yet. Then, some glitter appeared, then more and it was raining glitter. When the beautiful colors had disappeared, there were rows and rows of carnations. There was a row of pink and white carnations, a row of blue and white carnations, and then green, red, violet and lots of white.

  Everybody was ooing and ahhing. Judy Squirrel was jumping up and down for joy. “This is just what I wanted. The men are going to look so fine in their tuxedos with carnations in the buttonholes”

  Nogdorf heard chittering in the tree above him and looked up. Sammy Squirrel was so mad his face was a bright red! “What is going on Sammy? Nogdorf asked.

  Sammy said, “Monsters. Monsters at the great forest flats.”