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Fairy Workshop

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The fairies have been working very hard this winter--well, actually, fairies ALWAYS work very hard, not unlike their cousins, the elves. Remandy Silver Wing and her team have come up with something special for their feathered friends to enjoy. Come with me. Let's peek into their workshop, but we must be very quiet, for the fae do not like to be startled...

Oh, look! One group of fairies is busy preparing treats for their winged friends to enjoy, while another group just left the shed carrying baskets into which they will collect the required sweet necessities of fruit and berries. A scribe, sitting at a small mushroom desk, is busy working on a cold weather menu. He stops writing, and reads aloud:

Avian Appetizers for Cold Days of Winter

rice cakes
peanut butter balls
millet biscuit
banana chips
coconut strips
popcorn
blueberries, dried papaya, apples, appricots, raspberries
green grapes
cranberries

Mean while, Remandy Silver Wing is busy overseeing the mixing of millet with peanut butter, which is then spread onto both sides of thick round slices of rice cakes. Finally, pieces of dried fruit are pressed into the mixture. At dawn, Remandy and several workers will then hang these tasty treats on tree branches for the birds to enjoy.

Some of the fae work through the night, as Fairyland is not predisposed to idleness. The night fairies are responsible for making garlands of snackables. For this they use a blunt tapestry needle and a cords of raffia. On to these they string dried fruit and peanuts in the shell.

The fae teach that Chicadees love canapies of yellow cheese put into a green grape, while Woodpeckers favor unsalted peanuts and multi-grain cereals. Mockingbirds and Thrushes, they say, will eat banana chips and cranberries all day long! As you can see, the fae stay quite occupied, and remain so all winter long.

Each morning, after hanging the avian treats, Remandy is out greeting other fae, and birds of every feather. Her favorite greeting is: "Good morning to you. If you could study every feather of any one bird for a year, you would never cease to be amazed. Birds are but a hint of what heaven must be like!"

Remandy Silver Wing holds daily avian classes for the young faries. Of course, a day in Fairyland is unlike human days, as the concepts of time are different. One human day may equal a hundred years in Fairyland, but regardless of time, every where in the world, birds are protected by various superstitutions.

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