I hung out with Nut Ella yesterday! We made peanut butter cookies. Peanuts: they're also called ground-nuts. Where Nut Ella's grandma lives in southern Virginia they grow peanuts and sweet potatoes. Nut Ella always comes home with peanut soup and sweet potato pie to share with us. I think it helps to have sandy soil with stuff like that. With sandy soil, there is more air space and things that grow roots as food seem to get big more easily. It heats up faster in the spring.
Here where we live the soil is clay. It holds on to good food better. You can''t just pull it out, sometimes you have to dig it with a garden fork or something. Like if you pull out a carrot it might break as you're taking it out. And when it gets wet it sticks together. Not a lot of air space.
So, Nut Ella is afraid of Wombat Warren. She won't go near his garden or his house (which is also called Wombat Warren, which is confusing). I tell her, "Don't be afraid, Wombat Warren is nice," but she is still. Do you have anything I can tell her that would make her stop being afraid?
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Maybe Nut Ella should trust her instincts. a friend of a friend is a registered wombat rehabilitator and this how she responded to my email query about this issue.
Be careful, Broccoli Rob.
"Although wombats, especially young ones, look cute and are affectionate, full grown they can be aggressive, threatening, and even dangerous. As a wombat grows and matures, it becomes less and less friendly, and increasingly hostile and unpredictable. They have sufficient strength and speed to be dangerous. They're extremely strong and can be very destructive. They can tear holes in fences, doors, and even walls. There's not much that will stop a wombat other than concrete or steel."
Or maybe Nut Ella could give Wombat Warren some peanut butter cookies. Or, better yet, Nut Ella could give *me* some peanut butter cookies. VUBOQ loves the peanut butter cookies.
Can you tell me something about the Sweet Potato Twins?
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