Tessie pulled her red and green plaid skirt around her waist uncovering her white tights that drooped in the crotch as she sat Indian style on the cement right outside her Kindergarten classroom back door. This is where she wanted to be. Not with all those loud children, not with the games and the shoving, not with the boys who refused to let her play Princess Leia last time. Sitting, she stretched out her tiny hand to grab an acorn and began to study it. A dark brown round wood with a party hat and a point sticking out of it.
Margo came and towered over her in her green Osh-Kosh-B'Goshes and picked one up too. Off came the pointy party hat and then Margo gently laid it on the ground and stepped on it. The nut split easily and the inside was a tough pale meat that wanted to be discovered. Tessie did the same and again and again, they split several acorns to make an exceptional Acorn Stew. A pot was made in the freshly dug ground. The meat had to be separated from the wood. The party hats had to be put into the makeshift pot first.Busy they were for the rest of the recess period and in the end, they had a boiling Acorn Stew happily made for whoever wanted some. Dirt and acorns under their nails, the two girls sat in the shadows of the concrete patio, working and wondering why the children were so loud.
