Carolyn Holm

Dear Mom,
Something scary is going on! Puffin says it is an April Fool’s joke!
XOXO Poppy

Dear Poppy,
Wait, what?
Love, Carolyn

Dear Mom,
April Fool’s Day is tomorrow. He says that’s why you have been muttering about Power.
XOXO Poppy

Dear Poppy,
Oh, so all this has been because the universe is pranking us? With epic storms knocking down trees and turning off the power? Good prank. 
Love, Carolyn

Dear Mom,
What’s The Power? 
XOXO Poppy

Dear Poppy,
It’s what makes the lights go on, and the furnace go on, and it was off for a day and a half. That’s why the house is so cold. And it just went off again.
Love, Carolyn

Dear Mom,
That sounds extremely alarming. Why didn’t I know The Power could do this?
XOXO Poppy

Dear Poppy,
Normally you’d never even notice it. Power is not something tangible you can bark at. 
Love, Carolyn

Dear Mom,
Also, all the neighbors were in the street. That isn’t normal!!! Was this a party?
XOXO Poppy

Dear Poppy,
It was like a party, wasn’t it? We were all out watching the tree situation.
Love, Carolyn

Dear Mom,
What’s a tree situation?
XOXO Poppy

Dear Poppy,
You were with me. Didn’t you see that huge tree that fell over, into the power lines? That’s one of the reasons we didn’t have any power.
Love, Carolyn

Dear Mom,
I was watching the neighbors and the other dogs, not the trees. 
XOXO Poppy

Dear Poppy,
That makes perfect sense.
Love, Carolyn

Dear Mom,
Why were you all so interested in a tree?
XOXO Poppy

Dear Poppy,
When it fell, it got stuck in another tree and the power lines. The tree guys had to be raised up in crane buckets, wielding their chainsaws close to the wires, cutting away the leaning tree. It was immensely entertaining! We cheered when their crane finally got the trunk lowered down to the ground.
Love, Carolyn

Dear Mom,
Puffin says it’s not real. He said “April Fool’s!!!!”
XOXO Poppy

Dear Poppy,
I wish that were so, sweetie. But it’s real. I’ve told you before, don’t pay too much attention to what the cats tell you.
Love, Carolyn

Dear Mom,
Puffin says we’re supposed to play a joke on you for April Fools. But I don’t think dogs do jokes.
XOXO Poppy

Dear Poppy,
Not very well, anyway.
Love, Carolyn

Dear Mom,
Do cats do jokes?
XOXO Poppy

Dear Poppy,
I wouldn’t put it past them.
Love, Carolyn

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