Nut Ella Is Afraid

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?