How Green Becomes Wood

"It may also just be the texture," Daizi chuckled, while Ivy turned her face away from trying the egg, "It's unfamiliar to her."

"Life is very difficult when everything is new to you. I am sure they are delicious, Tristan."
 
"That's is perfectly all right. Deviled egg is not for everyone," Tristan smiled, fully unoffended by the toddler's reaction.

"They are good," Xander said before popping in his second egg.

Alec set the egg aside and tried offering a bit of bread from the spinach dip roll. Just the bread, none of the filling. "I'll try a bite in a bit."
 
ALec had some egg, decided he liked it better than Ivy, though he preferred traditional flavors over this sour cream and onion thing. The roll he split between himself and Ivy, eventually offering her some bites with a tiny amount of the spinach dip on the bread.

"Well, thank you for asking," Tristan smiled. "It's been a rather interesting week. Someone is having a 60th birthday party, and they are a member of a very large family. Very large. With a desire to avoid smells, and yet multiple have ordered bouquets and potted plants. It's... an interesting brief to work with."
 
The spinach roll Ivy decided she liked, and Dark made a mild comment about how this boded well for getting her to continue to eat her vegetables as she aged.

"I don't think I'd be able to work customer service, I'd get too frustrated," Daizi admitted, "Do you have a favourite sort of event to do flowers for?"
 
Alec giggled and finished sharing the spinach roll with Ivy. He tried out the mini corndogs next, having a mini sword fight with Xander using toothpicks in order to claim some as his own. He cut them tiny and offered Ivy a bit of the breading first, followed by a bit of hot dog.

"I like the offbeat types," Tristan admitted. "Wedding venues, birthdays, even funerals can be interesting and even fun, but I love when people come to me and ask me to do flowers for their dog's wedding, pizza marathons, and one person tried to host a fish tossing contest like the Florabama mullet toss. I never heard any follow-ups to that one. They can be utterly bizzare, but they are about people loving and living their lives to the fullest, and they present new flower challenges. Like how to make a flower display that looks like a fish. That one has to be the oddest to date."
 
"Oh, one designed by you? Now that would be an epic event, to be certain!" Tristan chuckled.

There was one mini corn dog left. Xander and Alec both eyed it. Xander looked at Ivy, still on Alec's lap and smirked. Alec made a face at him.
 
"I'll have to plan an event even more strange and unusual than our Halloween party," Daizi grinned, "Maybe I'll get the coven together."

Ivy looked at the two of them, not knowing what exactly was happening, but since she noticed they were both looking at the corn dog, she reached out to grab it.
 
"Oh, do you have a coven around here? That must be very nice to be able to gather like that," Tristan said, pleasantly surprised.

The twins groaned, and Alec sat back to supervise the eating of the corn dog.

Tristan glanced at them in amusement. "How have those two not managed to eat you out of house and home?"
 
"Yes, it's a few of my friends and I. We're sort of in talks of initiating a new member, Gwen made a new friend who is very interested, but we've not made a decision yet," Daizi replied.

Dark watched the twins before responding to Tristan's question, "You do not wish to see our grocery bill. Thankfully Daizi grows fruit and Cooger grows vegetables, which helps." It didn't help that he too had a substantial appetite.
 
Tristan chuckled at Dark's response. "That sounds quite substantial!" Seeing they'd nearly polished off the food, he asked, "Shall we begin adjourning to the event?"

"It's just singing and making a fools of ourselves," Xander remarked.

"I like calling it an event!" Alec said happily.
 
"It seems as good a time as any," Daizi said, "and thank you for the food, it was absolutely lovely. You have such a lovely home."

"And we circumvented disaster," Dark said, glancing at how well-contained Ivy had been.
 
"Thank you, I appreciate that," Tristan smiled.

Alec stood, hefting up Ivy as he did so. "Say, what did your landlord person say about putting in the wainscoting? I'm surprised they let you do something like that. I always heard that nice places like this, you couldn't do anything."

"It's more like faked wainscoting, and your uncle helped me put it up," Tristan explained. "I, well, he got a flat board from the hardware store, put the trim on the board, painted it, and then put it on the wall with removable adhesive pads."

"Wow. That's cool," Alec smiled. "Hey, Ba?"

"Sorry," Tristan laughed, wheeling toward the door.
 
"I let you paint a rainbow in your room," Dark said dryly, "I do not think wainscotting is the end of all things, considering how much is already in our home."

"Why do you never ask me for permission to decorate?" Daizi teased.
 
"Because I'm afraid of Ba having an aneurysm if he walks into a project like that," Alec snickered. "Plus, he's the one that works with wood."

"Hey, it's not my room, too, anymore, so you can do whatever you want," Xander said with a shrug.

Alec carried Ivy out to their car and buckled her in securely.
 
Alec grinned as he looked out the window, watching Tristan get into his car carefully. "I wonder why he doesn't get one of those vans with the wheelchair ramp things to get you in the driver's seat?"

"I bet they aren't cheap," Xander said. "Or maybe he likes being able to get himself in and out."

"Hmm. Good point. Looks like he's ready to go, Ba!" Alec reported.
 
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