we also recommend wrapping your head in a warm towel

I almost forgot to tell you about something I learned when I was at Big Cedar Lodge a few weeks ago.   It started with me bemoaning the fact that Dottie got all the hair in the family.  I have never been able to comprehend this.  She said it had nothing to do with heredity.  

She swore me to secrecy then revealed that if you go out on the night of a full moon, after having collected the spit of a turtle and combined it with flowering quince petals to make a paste that you rub on your head while standing on one leg it encourages the development of new hair follicles. 

I thanked her for this tip and told her I was going to think long and hard on it.  Then I ran back to our cabin, took the cinnamon rolls out of the oven, made coffee, and told Mary Ann what she said.  We decided rubbing the extra frosting from the pan on our scalps while talking to a female cardinal might just do the same thing.

We also recommend wrapping your head in a warm towel after the frosting application and taking a nap. 

If you guessed this was a tall tale carefully crafted in order to allow me to show you 6 more pictures from Big Cedar Lodge you would be right.  Everything except the part about wrapping your head after the frosting.  That is the whole truth, and nothing but.  

 

Comments

[Dottie Moss]

Laughing my hair off in New Mexico!

[Diane]

You are so funny. Runs in the family. I think you tell a tale here but nevertheless I'm looking for a turtle I can use.

[Janet Ghio]

So funny--I'm all for trying the frosting part while talking to a female cardinal

[Vicki in Michigan]

lol.....................

[barbara]

You all are so funny! Dottie has beautiful hair. I'll go for the frosting, the towel and the nap!

[Pat P]

I think I well into my early teens before I figured out that most of what my older sister told me was a tall tale, just to see how gullible I was!

[jeanette, mistress of longears]

What does she recommend for the sore abdominals from all that laughing?

[sister]

all i could think while i was reading this was
OH NO that turtle is going to fall to his death.
that made me v.v.v. sad
and upset.
and i wondered how i could save him.
and i also wondered which mountaintop at BIG CEDAR you found him on.
cause i don't remember any mountains like that.
and then i looked closer.
and saw that it was the pond!
not a mountain!
the turtle is safe!
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
p.s.
my hair is too thick now!

[Joan]

I do believe this is one of those Tall Tales From Kansas!

I do have 2 desert tortoise but not flowering quince nor cardinals of any color!

I'll just have to be content to eat the cinnamon rolls AND the frosting...there's no way I could waste that by rubbing in my hair!

[Leslie j. Moran]

Carol, Carol, Carol. Only you :)

[Susie LaFond]

and I could sit here and listen to your tall tales all day and all night long, the time would fly by and I bet my hair would grow too and devouring all your gorgeous photographs... lets just say I won't be going anywhere anytime soon btw, what is it with you and your sisters, I swear you all must have been born with uncanny photography skills, so whats in your secret potion for that may I ask?