My New Old Friends. . .
Today’s Fortune: One old friend is worth ten new ones.
This fortune wound up being way too mathy. And confusing.
A few days ago, my Dad brought home two new old friends that he found in an antique shop. Their names are Molly and Wally, and they are so much fun!
Wally is very skinny, and he has long arms and legs, and lots of fun red pompoms.
Molly is very cute! She has a beautiful mouth and long eyelashes. Her dress is made out of something called “dotted Swiss.” Mom says she thinks they are from the 1950s, which would definitely qualify them to be geezers. They look a lot better than some of the geezers that live here. I think somebody took very good care of them.
When I got today’s fortune, I started trying to figure out how many friends worth of friends I have in Molly and Wally. They are new friends, which makes them worth one, but they are also old friends, which makes them worth ten. Or maybe it’s the other way around…?
I even got out my big calculator so we could try to figure it out. I asked Mom what she thought, but she was no help at all. She said that they were worth $32.00 plus tax, which is what Dad paid for them.
I finally gave up. I have decided that new or old, you cannot put a value on friends. Friends are priceless.
I hope Molly and Wally will like it here as much as me and all the other monkeys do. And I hope my fortunes do not lead us to any more math problems, because they make us very confused.
Today’s Vocabulary Words: Dotted Swiss
4 Comments
Big Monkey
Hi Noah, Wally and Molly!
Your new old friends are certainly lucky to have found such a wonderful new home. That is truly priceless.
Your Pal,
Big Monkey
Chip Monk
Hi Noah,
I’d like to introduce myself. I am Phineas Chip Monk. I’m new to all of this blog stuff, but Mom told me about you and I asked her if we could be friends. She said that would be a very good idea. I just arrived in Minnesota from North Carolina. The weather is weird here. Really weird. Yesterday it was 92 degrees. Today – right now – it is 62 degrees. How is the weather where you live?
Chip
Noah
Hi, Big Monkey!
We are sure glad to have them here instead of the antique store. And we were glad they could stay together. Monkeys should never be split up.
Love, Noah
Noah
Hi, Chip!!
I would love to be your friend!! I have seen pictures of you, and you look like you would be a lot of fun to hang out with. Maybe I can get my Mom to bring me to Minnesota to see you and Auntie Pam sometime.
Love, Noah