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Big Wall Dragon's Letter to Max
Hello Max,
I dropped off your questions you wrote on Thanksgiving at a special place on Big Wall hoping the Big Wall Dragon might find them. It has been very cold and snowy, and I was afraid that the BWD would not come out for a little fresh air until the weather improved. So, I was happily surprised when he shared his responses to me through a wonderful ‘whizpopper’ dream. Whizpoppers were the happy dreams that the Big Friendly Giant (BFG) caught and secretly blew into the rooms of sleeping children. Occasionally, he would blow a dream into the rooms of few a kid-friendly adults. So maybe the BFG and BWD are in cahoots together.
All that being said, the answers to your important questions came to me in my whizpopper dream from the BWD.
So here are Big Wall Dragon’s responses:
What is your favorite kind of pie?
I love chokecherry pie, and if you add some raspberries from the Grandma Dana’s garden, the pie is even more tasty and sweet – really “scrumdidlyumptous”. My favorite way of eating a pie is to have someone throw them up into the air (like a Frisbee) so I can swoop and catch them
What do you like to do?
More than anything I like to help people. Some people are frightened of dragons so if I can help them solve a problem they realize dragons can be nice. One time it rained really hard after the ranchers around Big Wall had cut all their hay. The hay had to be dry before the ranchers could make the hay into bales to feed their livestock in the winter. If the hay stays wet it spoils and the ranchers wouldn’t have anything to feed their cows. I flew back and forth over the hay fields and used my very hot breath and the wind of my wings to dry out the hay. The ranchers were so grateful they went to their kitchens and baked me dozens of pies. Since it was June, and the rancher’s kids were all playing baseball, the kids practiced throwing the pies up to me. A baseball is definitely a different shape than a pie so some of the throws weren’t very good, but I had fun trying to catch them all. The ones I missed crashed to the ground and were enjoyed by my friends: the rabbits, coyotes, prairie dogs, porcupines, and birds. The porcupines were exceptionally happy to have some of the pies because, everyone knows, porcupines love pie.
Do you have a nickname?
Some of my dragon friends in Scotland call me Wally D (“Hey, Wally D, what’s happening?”). In Mexico, they call me “Senor Big WD”. Mostly my friends call me “BWD”. Max, since you are my friend, you can call me “BWD” or any other name you like (please don’t call me Shirley or Jane or any other girls name) because even though I can breath fire, I am a very “cool” dude.
What is your favorite color?
Hmm…that’s a tough one. I love it when the prairie all turns green in the spring, yet every time I need to solve a particularly troublesome problem, I always rely on my fire red inner throat flame. But then again, when the summer gets so hot, that even my cave tucked deep at the base of Big Wall warms up, I seek out the big blue ponds on the prairie to dive into and cool off. Then again, the yellow breasts of the returning Meadowlarks in the spring always put an extra lift into my big dragon wings.
What is your favorite animal?
That is easy… the Spiny Horn Toad, who if it had wings like me, would be a miniature dragon. The Horn Toads and I get together often to visit. They are always complaining that they didn’t get wings, and are stuck scrambling around the grass and rocks, and never get to go on big adventures like me. Sometimes I let them climb on my wings and I take them for a ride. Unfortunately they tend to get “air sick” so the rides are pretty short. So, instead of taking them on my long trips, we sit out on the hot rocks and I tell all about my adventures.
What is your favorite sport?
We dragons used to compete on how far we could skid on open lakes without sinking. The key is to hit the water low and fast with tail and wing stretched back and aligned, while heating the water in front of us with our fire breath. Lately I have been hearing about this Quiditch game that a kid named Harry Potter likes to play with his classmates. My dragon friends and I are thinking about entering a team. We think we could take the game to a new level.
What is your favorite food?
After pie, fried grasshoppers rolled in brown sugar and cinnamon is a late summer favorite. Every Christmas the local ranchers go in together and order me two 50 pound barrels of brown sugar and a few pounds of cinnamon and 10 pounds of Milton Ranch honey. I store them in my cave. Then in summer, at the height of the summer hatch, I fly low over the prairies spreading a light fire-mist that quickly fries all the hoppers. With a special hovering of my wings, I can gather all the grasshoppers into a big round ball and transport it back to the cave. Then I melt some honey to mix the hoppers with the sugar and cinnamon to make my own year round grasshopper granola balls. Yum! Yum!
What are your dragon friend’s names?
Dragons tend to have the name of the location of their home (cave, lake, mountain) in their name. I have many dragon buddies scattered over the globe, but here are a few names of my closest adventure companions in Montana. They are named “Flathead Lake Freya”, “Yellowstone Yuri”, “Glacier Grace” and most interestingly I have a friend named “Missouri River Max”.
I hope I have answered your questions and hope to hear from you.
BWD
These answers were sent to Grampa Bill through a “whizpopper” dream.
December 10, 2016
I dropped off your questions you wrote on Thanksgiving at a special place on Big Wall hoping the Big Wall Dragon might find them. It has been very cold and snowy, and I was afraid that the BWD would not come out for a little fresh air until the weather improved. So, I was happily surprised when he shared his responses to me through a wonderful ‘whizpopper’ dream. Whizpoppers were the happy dreams that the Big Friendly Giant (BFG) caught and secretly blew into the rooms of sleeping children. Occasionally, he would blow a dream into the rooms of few a kid-friendly adults. So maybe the BFG and BWD are in cahoots together.
All that being said, the answers to your important questions came to me in my whizpopper dream from the BWD.
So here are Big Wall Dragon’s responses:
What is your favorite kind of pie?
I love chokecherry pie, and if you add some raspberries from the Grandma Dana’s garden, the pie is even more tasty and sweet – really “scrumdidlyumptous”. My favorite way of eating a pie is to have someone throw them up into the air (like a Frisbee) so I can swoop and catch them
What do you like to do?
More than anything I like to help people. Some people are frightened of dragons so if I can help them solve a problem they realize dragons can be nice. One time it rained really hard after the ranchers around Big Wall had cut all their hay. The hay had to be dry before the ranchers could make the hay into bales to feed their livestock in the winter. If the hay stays wet it spoils and the ranchers wouldn’t have anything to feed their cows. I flew back and forth over the hay fields and used my very hot breath and the wind of my wings to dry out the hay. The ranchers were so grateful they went to their kitchens and baked me dozens of pies. Since it was June, and the rancher’s kids were all playing baseball, the kids practiced throwing the pies up to me. A baseball is definitely a different shape than a pie so some of the throws weren’t very good, but I had fun trying to catch them all. The ones I missed crashed to the ground and were enjoyed by my friends: the rabbits, coyotes, prairie dogs, porcupines, and birds. The porcupines were exceptionally happy to have some of the pies because, everyone knows, porcupines love pie.
Do you have a nickname?
Some of my dragon friends in Scotland call me Wally D (“Hey, Wally D, what’s happening?”). In Mexico, they call me “Senor Big WD”. Mostly my friends call me “BWD”. Max, since you are my friend, you can call me “BWD” or any other name you like (please don’t call me Shirley or Jane or any other girls name) because even though I can breath fire, I am a very “cool” dude.
What is your favorite color?
Hmm…that’s a tough one. I love it when the prairie all turns green in the spring, yet every time I need to solve a particularly troublesome problem, I always rely on my fire red inner throat flame. But then again, when the summer gets so hot, that even my cave tucked deep at the base of Big Wall warms up, I seek out the big blue ponds on the prairie to dive into and cool off. Then again, the yellow breasts of the returning Meadowlarks in the spring always put an extra lift into my big dragon wings.
What is your favorite animal?
That is easy… the Spiny Horn Toad, who if it had wings like me, would be a miniature dragon. The Horn Toads and I get together often to visit. They are always complaining that they didn’t get wings, and are stuck scrambling around the grass and rocks, and never get to go on big adventures like me. Sometimes I let them climb on my wings and I take them for a ride. Unfortunately they tend to get “air sick” so the rides are pretty short. So, instead of taking them on my long trips, we sit out on the hot rocks and I tell all about my adventures.
What is your favorite sport?
We dragons used to compete on how far we could skid on open lakes without sinking. The key is to hit the water low and fast with tail and wing stretched back and aligned, while heating the water in front of us with our fire breath. Lately I have been hearing about this Quiditch game that a kid named Harry Potter likes to play with his classmates. My dragon friends and I are thinking about entering a team. We think we could take the game to a new level.
What is your favorite food?
After pie, fried grasshoppers rolled in brown sugar and cinnamon is a late summer favorite. Every Christmas the local ranchers go in together and order me two 50 pound barrels of brown sugar and a few pounds of cinnamon and 10 pounds of Milton Ranch honey. I store them in my cave. Then in summer, at the height of the summer hatch, I fly low over the prairies spreading a light fire-mist that quickly fries all the hoppers. With a special hovering of my wings, I can gather all the grasshoppers into a big round ball and transport it back to the cave. Then I melt some honey to mix the hoppers with the sugar and cinnamon to make my own year round grasshopper granola balls. Yum! Yum!
What are your dragon friend’s names?
Dragons tend to have the name of the location of their home (cave, lake, mountain) in their name. I have many dragon buddies scattered over the globe, but here are a few names of my closest adventure companions in Montana. They are named “Flathead Lake Freya”, “Yellowstone Yuri”, “Glacier Grace” and most interestingly I have a friend named “Missouri River Max”.
I hope I have answered your questions and hope to hear from you.
BWD
These answers were sent to Grampa Bill through a “whizpopper” dream.
December 10, 2016