Lydia and Alice talk to Alice’s parents, Natalie and Cagney, about their early relationship.Hatshepsut the chicken tries to walk up the stairs, and Alice and Lydia try to stop her.After some maneuvering, Batty confiscates the axe from Feldspar.Lydia tells Alice she wonders if she used to be a bird.They lie down in a picnic blanket in a nest carved out of the meadow. Alice takes her to a secret place, passing by the frog pond.There are more spiders in the carriage house apartment.Batty and Lydia return to cleaning Arundel. Batty decides to stay in Cagney's old carriage house apartment.Alice suggests ghost hunting and demonstrates her tae kwon do. Feldspar picks up an axe, and Alice and Lydia suspect Mrs.Alice gives Lydia a birdcall (eastern towhee) and Lydia pinky swear on their friendship.Cagney and his wife Natalie come to talk to Mrs.Tifton thinks Skye had a crush on Jeffrey. Tifton calls Mimi Robinette to tell her the family who was there 15 years ago is back. When a spider lands on Lydia, Lydia freaks out, and Batty sends her to sweep elsewhere in the house. Batty goes to the kitchen to rescue the spiders.The sisters and the dogs have lunch by a cherub fountain in the garden.Batty plays the piano in the old piano room, while all the furniture is covered in white sheets.Lydia gives the Zeus statue raspberries.Alice leaves when Cagney whistles her birdcall (black-capped chickadee) to her. She talks about her 12-year-old brother Jack. Lydia takes Batty to the sheep field, which used to be the bull field, and introduces her to Blossom/Big Papi.Batty and Lydia meet with Cagney and his 10-year-old daughter Alice, who live in the cottage.Jane’s car almost dies, then Batty sings to it.Ĥ: A Sheep Called Big Papi (or Blossom) A week after Batty breaks up with Wesley, Batty and Lydia drive to Arundel first.

Ben’s alien movie fails, Lydia quits her dancing lessons for the last time, and realizes she has a deep dislike for Deborah.Lydia protests that she does not like everybody.Tifton, now in New York City, had left Arundel to Jeffrey. Rosalind reveals she’ll get married in Arundel.Rosalind suggests they have a double marriage. However, Skye decides that marriage can be useful. She’d said that marriage wasn’t for everyone, especially not impatient people, and that marriage is an outmoded social construct. Skye had never mentioned marrying Dusek.Skye asks Lydia about the extra math Skye wanted her to do. She helps run an urban farm in a city near Cameron. She works as a waitress and has sworn off love. Batty tells Lydia that her artist boyfriend Wesley is talking about dropping out of school to go west.When Batty arrives at the bus stop, Lydia, plus dogs Sonata and Feldspar, is there to welcome her.2.4 4: A Sheep Called Big Papi (or Blossom)Ĭhapter-by-Chapter Summary 1: Dancing at the Bus Stop.

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