Today’s Fortune: The time is right to make a new friend.

I am amazed at how much Confucious knows! This was the best fortune so far!

Today we did a lot of boring stuff. Mom went to meet somebody named “Client” and did not take me. Then Dad needed to shop for some special stuff for making “backdrops” for his photography. Mom went to the paint store. I had to sit in the car a lot today. It was not much fun, except for when we went through the car wash, which was good.

We went to the fabric store, but we did not get sister stuff this time. Dad bought more backdrop stuff. I was really starting to think that there would be nothing fun at all today. Just like knitting days.

On our way home, we decided to stop in another antique store. I love antique stores, because they are always an adventure. There was a giant cat made of wood right inside the door, and there were also a bunch of carousel horses. Mom would not let me get pictures with them, because of what happened when I hugged the Hello Kitty at the Asian Market. I did find another very good John Deere tractor to ride on, though. I did not even get to find out if it was in our price range, though, because Mom reminded me I already had a nice John Deere tractor at home.  I will play with my own tractor, and enjoy riding all the ones I find while we are shopping.

While we were shopping,  a lady noticed Mom’s sock monkey sweater, and she noticed me, too.  She asked us if we had seen the sock monkeys that were at another shop.  We were in that shop last week and did not see any, so she said they must be new there.  We went to the other shop, and I made a bunch of new friends!!

There was a girl sock monkey, and there was a boy sock monkey dressed in yellow overalls.  There was also a bunny and something that looked sort of like a dog.  They were made from socks, but they were not monkeys.  I asked mom if they could all come home with us.  She told me that we could only adopt one new family member today, so I chose the boy monkey.  I have had enough trouble with girls lately, and we have enough pets.

Our new monkey told me his name is Calvin Klein.  It says “CK” on the front of his overalls.  Mom says those are his “initials.”  My initials are “N”, I guess.  He also has  “KNIGHTS” down one of the legs of his pants, and he has a very good yellow hat.   I am not sure what the letters on his leg are for.  I think he might have been in a gang.  I let him try out my adirondack chair when we got home.   He liked it a lot.

He will fit in very well around here, and I can tell he will be a good friend.  He will be much more fun than the sisters or the geezers.  Mom says he cannot go everywhere like I do, because there is not enough room in her big purse for both of us, but we will do lots of stuff together.

Since we adopted him, I guess that makes us brothers.  I am hoping that having a brother will not be nearly as challenging as having sisters.  Maybe I can join his gang.

Confucious was right again!  The time was definitely right to make a new friend today.  I will share my Fun Club cookies with him.  I might even let him open tomorrow’s fortune cookie.

Hooray for new friends!!

Today’s Vocabulary Words: Client, backdrops, initials