Long Lost Friend is Found!

True friends are always together in spirit.

~ L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Once there were two little piggies, Puddle and Toot.* They were best friends.

Puddle and Toot

But one day Toot took a trip on his own. Puddle couldn't find him anywhere. Puddle was very sad, but played with his other friends. And he waited for Toot to return. Puddle knew that Toot would have many stories to tell of his adventures.

Then Puddle went to visit a friend for a few weeks. He wandered in parks. He looked at the flowers. He watched the bees and the butterflies.

Puddle with the sunflower

And one day, while he was looking at a lovely sunflower, Puddle saw someone he though he recognized. It looked like Toot in the sunflower patch.

And it was Toot!

Puddle and Toot were so excited to see each other. They skipped around the garden. They wandered through the vegetables and climbed the statuary. They were so glad to be together again. Toot explained that he was on his way home when he just happened to stop in the SAME garden Puddle was visiting.

The friends had never seen an eggplant plant before!

What a lovely flower!

They got to pick tomatoes!

They almost got lost in a carrot forest...

And they climbed to the top of the Buddha to get an arial view of the garden.

What a coincidence!!!

Toot and Puddle celebrated with a picnic (with sandwiches and pie)...and many, many stories.

Peanut butter sandwiches and cherry pie

And they agreed to travel together in the future. Adventures are always better with a good friend.

NOTES

*Puddle and Toot are characters from Toot and Puddle by Holly Hobbie, Published by Little, Brown and Company, Copyright 1997 Holly Hobbie. This story is an homage to Ms. Hobbie and explains how a lost Toot was found.