The Sacred Crown

Hi..it's me...Annie Grace......
I have noticed a lot of activity around town....streets are being swept, flowers are being planted along Main St, people are cleaning their store front windows, banners are being hung, sidewalks are being swept, front porches painted and I wondered for what? So taking the chance that I could get a one sentence answer from The Lady.....which clearly I was wrong........I asked.

She said Shirley is coming! Who? Apparently Shirley lives in Italy, which I am wondering if it close to Poland so she could help me with my escape...(I mean heritage search....to find my family since I must be Polish....as I can speak it.) Anyway......Shirley lives in Italy. I asked The Lady what does she do there? The Lady says the best she can surmise...is she drinks wine, goes to dinner parties,drinks wine, grows vegetables, drinks wine, rides around hair-pin turns and gets bugs in her hair from picking grapes. (I am wondering if she gets hairballs......like me.....I heard she has big hair which now throws me in a tailspin as maybe I am Italian....with my big hair) I think that sounds fabulous! So why is she coming? The Lady said for her Ornament Exchange Party she thinks. (I am suspect that someone would come 2 months early for just a party.......but I really don't see the need to deflate The Lady on this) She said Shirley was the winner 2 years ago of The Sacred Crown and she probably wants to get a jump on things this year and spend at least 2 months searching for the PERFECT ornament as the she was de-crowned last year by Liisa.

At this point I am thinking...how awful! De-crowned? That must weigh heavy on someone! No wonder she left the country! So where is The Crown I asked? The Lady said frightfully.....it's with Liisa. She said the The Crown should be kept in a temperature controlled vault, wrapped in tissue paper and insured with Lloyds of London only to be brought out on the sacred evening. She fears that The Crown is in Liisa's basement,shed or in her garage......or under Glenn's John Deere....... or being used to pick all her tomatoes.

No wonder Shirley is flying back!!! Hurry!