The Oh, Hello everyone welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast this is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. This is the time of year in which I want to jump up and down and shout out of my little Sparkle megaphone, get over here because December. Oh my goodness we have so much goodness so many

stories so many projects. So if you're listening to this at the end of November, early December, check it out.

Most specifically, we have what are called audio advent calendars.

Now, if you know what a paper advent calendar is, it's a

usually a beautiful calendar of sorts where you get to open a door a day for December 1st to the 25th all the way to Christmas.

Well with us we offer a story a day for December 1st to the 25th.

And do you know what?

We have five of those audio advent calendars,

so you have five advent experiences to choose from.

So I have picked the very first story in the Junkyard Tales audio

admin calendar. It's called December 1 so you can try it out and if you're not yet a sparkle subscriber, jump on a free trial and really

enjoy our content for December because I promise it will put you in the holiday mood and remind you of what's most most important during this season.

The story you're about to hear is one of our giant library of nearly 1,500 original stories at Sparkle

Stories. That's a lot of stories, a lot of adventures, a lot of wonderful tales, and you can enjoy all of them for free for a week.

Go to sparkle stories.com and click the button at the top that says start free trial then you can listen to as

much as you like anytime you like. Okay now onto the story December 1 from the Junkared Tales audio admin calendar.

Enjoy. The This is a story about a junkyard, a most unusual place that was home to a host of unusual animals.

There was little mama, the busy rabbit, and Sally, the chip monk who shared a home in the old maple

tree toward the back of the junkyard near the compost pile.

There was Spiro, the fun-loving skunk who spent his days looking for tins of tuna and sardines

in the new garbage piles. And there was Zippy, the porcupine.

It was always so very late for meetings.

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