Snorfle @ Home

Snorfle @ Home
by
Robin Hall

On his first day home alone in his new house, Snorfle woke up early. He was confused for a while, but Cary, Jerry, Mary and Red Cherry woke up too and they all had breakfast. The Cherrys had whole wheat and soy pancakes with cottage cheese and blueberry sauce, oranges, strawberries and skim milk. Snorfle had pig chow plus some strawberries under the table from Cary, Jerry and Red. Merry ate all of hers.

Then Red and Merry went to work, the twins went to school and Snorfle went exploring. First Snorfle just walked ALL over to get a clear picture of his new home. Then he came back to the kitchen for some water, more pig chow, without strawberries, and to use the pig litter box. He’d figured that one out yesterday.

Next he ran around each room looking for excitement. The living room rug was VERY exciting and Snorfle rooted around for 10 minutes looking for bugs till he realized that this was not some funny beige grass he had never seen before. It was fun anyway and he rolled around for good measure.

Just then he noticed something. The hallway had been waxed and offered a small pig some real fun. After a few spills, Snorfle got the hang of it. He began by running on the living room rug. When he got to the hall he did a small jump, landed on his hooves and slid to the other end. He bumped into the wall a few times and there were some snout prints on the mirror at the end of the hall that everyone would wonder about later, but this was terrific !

Snorfle trotted happily back to the kitchen for more water and to see if any more strawberries were about. There weren’t, so he headed to the twin’s room. Cary and Jerry had all the usual things ten year old boys have in their rooms: a Brown’s pennant, a large dophin poster and a Dolly Parton poster where she had BIG hair and er, well.

There were baseballs and gloves, a football and soccer ball, and a whiffle ball that Snorfle pushed into every room of the house before the day was over. There was also a toy box that Snorfle could not reach, yet and some tennis balls he could.

He LOVED the furry tennis balls which tickled his very sensitive nose and he pushed them everywhere in the house. Snorfle hid 3 tennis balls under Jerry’s bed, 1 in Red and Merry’s room near the scales, one in the kitchen near his water bowl and one in his bed under the blanket for later.

Then Snorfle took a nap. He dreamed about a pig named Winston. He dreamed about his sister Sne. And he dreamed about the PIG GRAND COUNCIL.

When Snorfle woke up the Cherrys were all home and hellos were shouted, hugs and kisses passed all round, even to Snorfle and Family Time was here. Everyone told about their day, got some praise for doing a good job as usual, fixed dinner together and ate, without TV, so they could continue sharing their day.

After dinner, Cary went to his room. He shouted, “Where are my tennis balls?” and when everyone came to help him they saw the skid marks in the hall and the snout prints on the mirror and wondered and laughed a lot. This was Snorfle’s first day at his new home at 1440 Highridge Rd. in beautiful Lake Swenson with his adopted family Cary, Jerry, Merry and Red Cherry.

The End