Preview of " Professor Owl's Teatime"

Everytime I go to Chowan, I sing this song!

By the second or third cottonfield I get distracted by the lack of skyscrapers and billboards, from my New York upbringing. I love cotton, but do we really need that many fields of cotton, I sometimes wonder. It is beautiful, though.

Where is Eva? I woke up at three and felt across the bed for my baby, guess who was there?

OH boy! She is back at college. Maybe that was a dream that she was with me for a month. Maybe she didn't really come home at all. I miss her soooo much. I hope she is alright!

Where is Eva? She's back at Chowan, for now.

I hope that you are back and fully ready to start the new semester. We enjoyed having you home and loved every minute of it, complaints and arguments and all. Love is a many splendored thing, a song says and that means that the complaints and the crankiness is part of the great love that is in our hearts. My heart especially. I am sorry I didn't have any reason to spank you this visit. I will have to think of a reason before the next visit, or it won't be as fun. I love you and enjoy yourself.

Remember to go to the pond, every once in a while.

So Glad you're home!

Be a Sweetie! Take your roommate to lunch one day this week!

I enjoyed your visit, sweetiepie. We need to branch out in our social circle. Some people have befriended you and you need to do the same. Maybe a little time with your roommate may bloom into a wonderful relationship. Love you, darling. MOM

From Emma's perspective.

Every morning mommy puts me out to look for the missing sheep. I look as far as I can see. I just can't imagine where she could be?

They seem alright with it and I don't think they are very good at raising sheep, if they can live with themselves not getting out there to search where she is. I think they must know where she is, but if they don't, I can't imagine why they sit in front of that thing so much and don't go out into the highways and hedges and see where she might have run off to.

Maybe, she is stuck around the corner between some hedges and can't get her wool loose from the thorns. Perhaps, she fell and broke a bone and is bleating into the night with no one to comfort her. I have often grabbed her little hand to remind her to keep in step with the flock. Now, there is one less sheep to remind and to herd along the way.

I knew that something was changing, because Mommy wasn't home, she scurried around the morning and they went out. It looked to be a search party and they came back with the "Evie Sheep". I was so happy, I jumped on her and we rolled around like never before! They found her and she's home!!! Happy Day.