Lost Forest Village, as the place is often referred to, cannot be very large, even with outlying homes. Yet, Peach and Olive claim that their merchandise stand at the Farmers Market sells enough to pay their rent. Housing must be cheap over there, or it’s really an “artist’s retreat” village that caters to the comfortably wealthy. This week Peach and Olive also admitted that moving out of Florida (like Jules Rivera also did) was a positive game changer. Based on what we saw on Chedderson’s golf course, they didn’t get away from the alligators.

So, this week we watched Cherry and her sisters selling their products at the farmers market. We didn’t see a lot of action at first. But the sisters were surprised when up popped a real-life fashionista who declared she wanted to buy their entire display! Her use of dated slang seemed to turn Olive off, but Peach nearly fainted with hero worship when she learned the woman is the famous online influencer, Holly Folly! This didn’t faze Cherry one bit, as she trotted out her “country gal” attitude and even imposed herself in between Holly and Peach while they chatted about working together.

By the way, Holly Folly—I’m hoping you’ll recall—was only a minor character in Mark’s mountain-top investigation of Sid Stump’s questionable STEM retreat (“Bear Necessity”). But is Holly sincere or on the con? We may have wait for that answer, as tomorrow we’ll likely go back to check on Mark for a few weeks, unless Rivera changes her publishing routine.

Is Mark giving this talk in his pajamas!? Makes sense, I reckon, given he’s talking about a nocturnal animal that does its playing while we’re sleeping.

Opossums play “dead”, and  humans play “Possum.” Got it! I almost stepped on a big fat possum lounging on my side door stoop one night when I came home. It skedaddled out of the way pretty fast, once it determined that “playing dead” didn’t work on a human who didn’t see it until too late. Still, faking dead is a cool trick, unless you are being tracked by vultures. And I don’t know why, when the immunity genes were passed out, we didn’t get our share for snake venom and rabies.