Doug's Dates
Today's story and sketch "by me" we see Doug Gofish piloting his Anion Anti Grav 37 Glider, in front of Doug's Date Moon Pie Store here in Indio California, Doug has just treated two (sisters Darla and Deb Kagler),
from Lippo the Blue Moon, to a week in nearby Palm Springs. Darla won the Moon Pie eating contest at the Koni
Crater Fair, two weeks ago and with the first prize, a weeks stay in Palm Springs, Doug was the Judge and had a hard
time letting the runner up Deb stay behind, she had only eaten one moon pie less than sister Darla, that being 42 pies in
the two minute contest. Which was quite close to the Lippo Moon record of 45 pies in two minutes. But let us get back
to the story of Doug's Date Moon Pie shop, and how it was that Doug arrived here in Indio about a thousand years
ago when he was a young grey alien youth, from the Koni Crater on lippo. After graduating from college with a degree
in Horticulture, Doug loaded up a transporter and came to Earth looking for a unique fruit filling for moon pie's.
Doug's professor had told him about a fruit he had found when he had traveled to Earth himself many years before
in a place he had landed to take a walkabout, he named it Indus which was short for (incredibly nasty dusty uninhabitable stop). But he did write in his notebook about a fruit tree that was nearly a hundred feet high and very hard to climb.
But that the fruit was tasty if you were brave enough to climb for it. Doug charted a course for Indus as shown on
the professors Earth map, and he had no problem finding the trees, they were in fact very very tall and loaded with
long clusters of dates. Doug set up a campsite, put on his tree climbing spikes and climbed up, tree after tree gathering
dates. With the portable moon pie kitchen set up and ready to go, Doug created the first date moon pies. Wanting to
get some customer feedback, Doug had noticed a lot of human workmen erecting a very large pyramid shaped building when
he was in low orbit looking for the trees, he went back to where the pyramid was being built and walked up
to the terrified workers, who noticed Doug was four feet tall grey and had very large black eyes, but their fear turned to joy when the workman ate the first moon pies on Earth. Doug gave each man a pie and the story was carved into the pyramid walls and is still readable today. Doug saved all of the date seeds, flew back into a low orbit and
found this area now known as Indio, which is really not so different from Indus, but is closer to Palm Springs.
He planted the seeds and they grew into a forest of Date Palms, and the fruit used for his Date Moon Pies.
Taa ta the Rod Blog
Doug's Dates
Today's story and sketch "by me" we see Doug Gofish piloting his Anion Anti Grav 37 Glider, in front of Doug's Date Moon Pie Store here in Indio California, Doug has just treated two (sisters Darla and Deb Kagler),
from Lippo the Blue Moon, to a week in nearby Palm Springs. Darla won the Moon Pie eating contest at the Koni
Crater Fair, two weeks ago and with the first prize, a weeks stay in Palm Springs, Doug was the Judge and had a hard
time letting the runner up Deb stay behind, she had only eaten one moon pie less than sister Darla, that being 42 pies in
the two minute contest. Which was quite close to the Lippo Moon record of 45 pies in two minutes. But let us get back
to the story of Doug's Date Moon Pie shop, and how it was that Doug arrived here in Indio about a thousand years
ago when he was a young grey alien youth, from the Koni Crater on lippo. After graduating from college with a degree
in Horticulture, Doug loaded up a transporter and came to Earth looking for a unique fruit filling for moon pie's.
Doug's professor had told him about a fruit he had found when he had traveled to Earth himself many years before
in a place he had landed to take a walkabout, he named it Indus which was short for (incredibly nasty dusty uninhabitable stop). But he did write in his notebook about a fruit tree that was nearly a hundred feet high and very hard to climb.
But that the fruit was tasty if you were brave enough to climb for it. Doug charted a course for Indus as shown on
the professors Earth map, and he had no problem finding the trees, they were in fact very very tall and loaded with
long clusters of dates. Doug set up a campsite, put on his tree climbing spikes and climbed up, tree after tree gathering
dates. With the portable moon pie kitchen set up and ready to go, Doug created the first date moon pies. Wanting to
get some customer feedback, Doug had noticed a lot of human workmen erecting a very large pyramid shaped building when
he was in low orbit looking for the trees, he went back to where the pyramid was being built and walked up
to the terrified workers, who noticed Doug was four feet tall grey and had very large black eyes, but their fear turned to joy when the workman ate the first moon pies on Earth. Doug gave each man a pie and the story was carved into the pyramid walls and is still readable today. Doug saved all of the date seeds, flew back into a low orbit and
found this area now known as Indio, which is really not so different from Indus, but is closer to Palm Springs.
He planted the seeds and they grew into a forest of Date Palms, and the fruit used for his Date Moon Pies.
Taa ta the Rod Blog