Groggeries

Groggeries – a slightly disreputable barroom.

The fairy chef must be low on groceries. Once a year the chef for the fairies looks through his kitchen to see what food he needs. It is a long process. It takes about one month to do this job. He flies around his kitchen looking behind each door. He looks into each jar. Usually everything is almost gone. Those fairies can sure eat a lot. The list usually includes such things as purple mushrooms, the kiss of a honeybee, and the dust from starfish. The jar of butterfly cream is always low. The petals from the first roses disappear fast. He just cannot keep the juice of the honeysuckle around much. The fairies like to have it at every meal and even before bed. They drink it with sprinkles of stardust. The hardest thing for them is gathering the light from the firefly. They don’t like to have the fairy chef sneak up on them and squeeze their light. It makes them cranky and they tend to zoom by other fairies to send them spinning just for revenge. Fairies hate it when the chef goes out for groggeries. They usually get the anger of the other animals if they are disturbed. The fun part of getting groggeries is shopping for grapes. It is usually the time that all the wooly caterpillars are climbing on the vines. To get the grapes the chef has to pass over them which always tickles his belly. He seems to always keep having to make multiple trips to the grape vines. The fairy guards think that it is just for the fun of the tickled belly. This is a busy time for the fairy chef but he is responsible for keeping the groggeries full.