On the morning of February 15th Styracosaurus woke up to realize that he was out of coffee plants. Since he was in Colorado visiting Stegosaurus and Edmontosaurus had been visiting with him, he turned to his loyal friends, and said, “What shall I do now ? All of the coffee plants I brought from Canada have been eaten! Where can we obtain more? Do you have any, Stegosaurus?”
Stegosaurus rejoined, “I do not! We have, all of us, eaten all available coffee plants! However, I have an idea. Let us all stomp forthrightly together to the State of Wyoming to visit my friend the retired Congresssaurus Triceratops. Since his retirement from politics, he has opened a greenery in his native State of Wyoming, and he has as his assistant our mutual mammal friend Steve Beavers.”
“Isn't Wyoming a little cold for the growth of coffee plants?” asked Edmontosaurus, already certain that he knew the answer.
“It is, but Congresssaurus Triceratops has, as part of his greenery business a very large green house. I have been there and seen it in saurus. He and his mammal associate Steve Beavers can grow anything in that greenhouse. Let us visit our friend in Wyoming to see if we can get more coffee plants right away!”
“I should like to come along with you, as I am also out of coffee plants!” said Edmontosaurus.
“Of course, you may come with us! Let us stomp forthrightly to Wyoming at once!” declared Stegosaurus.
Therefore, the three dinosaurs set off from Colorado to Wyoming and arrived at the cave and greenery of Congresssaurus Triceratops on February 24th, on a day when the greenery was closed and Congresssaurus Triceratops could be found eating his lawn. Stegosaurus knew that his true and loyal ceratopsian friend loved that recent invention, grass.
“Hail, friend Triceratops!” Stegosaurus exclaimed.
“Stegosaurus! Brother Styracosaurus! What a nice, unexpected visit! Who is this new friend you bring to me today? Is that Edmontosaurus?” asked Congresssaurus Triceratops.
“I am, indeed, Edmontosaurus of the hadrosaur family,” said Edmontosaurus. “Nice to meet you.”
“Where is our mammal friend Steve Beavers today?” asked Stegosaurus.
“Steve has gone fishing, by a shady, wady pool, instead of just a wishin’, and he’ll be back on Monday. Stick around, he’ll be back, and we’ll all have a great time together.” said Congresssaurus Triceratops.
“We appreciate your hospitality,” said Edmontosaurus.
“Friend Triceratops, what we are hoping for is that you have coffee plants in your greenhouse,” said Stegosaurus.
“I had some, not that long ago, but alas! I have eaten them and must grow some more,” said Congresssaurus Triceratops.
“Oh dear!”, said Styracosaurus.
“Don’t worry,” Congressaurus Triceratops assured his fellow ceratopsian. “Steve Beavers will be here on Monday, and he’ll get the coffee plants growing in no time. I have never met a mammal before so skilled as Steve Beavers is in encouraging things to grow. If anyone can do this and deliver the coffee plants you seek, it will be Steve Beavers.”
On March 2nd, Steve Beavers arrived at Congresssaurus Triceratops’ greenery with his fishing pole and a cooler full of fish that he had caught.
“My good friend Steve Beavers!” said Styracosaurus. “Do you remember me?”
“Yes, I do, Styracosaurus. “We met when I went to Canada. I hope you are doing well.”
“What do you have there?” asked Styracosaurus.
“I have been on vacation in North Carolina fishing,” said Steve Beavers. “I had a great time and the catch was plentiful.”
“I am glad you like fish,” said Styracosaurus. “I am a plant eater though and would not eat any fish.”
“I will eat fish for the both of us,” said Steve Beavers.
“I have a favor to ask you,” said Styracosaurus.
“What is it?” asked Steve Beavers.
“I have come from Canada to Colorado and now here to Wyoming and in all that time, not only myself but Stegosaurus and Edmontosaurus here are right out of coffee plants. Can you, with your mammal magic, grow some coffee plants for me? I would be forever grateful,” asked Styracosaurus.
“In the greenhouse, I might be able to” said Steve. “This will not be of the quality you are accustomed as Wyoming is not in a tropical zone, but I will try my best and give it a try in the greenhouse.”
“Thank you so much!” said Styracosaurus. “I am grateful. If there is anything I can do to help, let me know!”
“I see you have brought Stegosaurus with you and a duck billed dinosaur. Who is this new friend?” asked Steve Beavers.
Edmonosaurus, overhearing the conversation stomped forward to introduce himself.
“Pleased to meet you, Edmontosaurus, how long have you been traveling with Styracosaurus and Stegosaurus?”
Edmontosaurus explained his recent travels, starting with his time in South Africa, and Steve Beavers promised to plant him a coffee plant or two, as well as many as Stegosaurus would like.
“Thank you, friend Steve Beavers,” said Stegosaurus. “You are a true friend.”
Congresssaurus Triceratops asked Steve Beavers, “How was your vacation? It looks like you caught a plentiful amount of fishes.”
“I did, I managed to catch Mahi Mahi, Atlantic Salmon, and Red Snapper,” said Steve Beavers.
“Did you see my friend Plesiosaur or Elasmosaurus?” asked Stegosaurus.
“I did not, I am sure they would have been great competition for fish.”
“If you had met them you’d really like them. Someday I will introduce you to them.”
“Thank you,” said Steve Beavers.
“Steve, one thing I’d like to ask once you are settled,” said Congresssaurus Triceratops.
“I will plant you some coffee plants as well,” said Steve.
“Thank you kindly, but I was wondering if you’d change the greeting on our telephone to advise customers that they should listen carefully because our options have not changed in 70 million ears.”
“Ah, okay. I can do that,” said Steve.
“Thank you, as a dinosaur I don’t use telephones, but I would like to make things easy for our mammal customers.”
“Before I go on and take care of the phones for Triceratops I want to tell my dinosaur friends that I will do the best I can to grow your coffee plants in the greenhouse, but I advise you also that coffee plants are usually cultivated in tropical zones, where it is much warmer, and as you know, things are not as warm on Earth as they used to be. A coffee plant may grow in Wyoming, but might not, even in a greenhouse, produce beans. Even if, best case scenario, I can manage to pull off growing coffee plants that produce beans, it will take at least 8 years to mature,” said Steve Beavers.
“I have complete faith in you,” said Styracosaurus. “I have heard that you were able to grow an avacado tree in Floyd county, Virginia, USA. If anyone can cause coffee plants to produce beans in a non Tropical Zone, it would be you. You are very well known for your plant growing skills among dinosaurs and megafauna.” said Styracosaurus.
“I am 140 Million and 19,” said Stegosaurus. “What is 8 years to me but 8 more years? Everyone be calm and patient; if Steve Beavers can deliver coffee plants that produce coffee beans, he will certainly lauded among dinosaurs and mammals of his kind, but we will all be patient and kind, and respect our good friend who will try his best for us.”
“I am thankful for the sincere effort that you will make, Mr. Beavers, and I am sure that we will be fast friends no matter what happens, success or not,” said Edmontosaurus.
“I thank you all for your good faith,” said Steve Beavers. “It is true that I once grew an avocado tree in Virginia, but that was a story of unusual success, not the norm. I know I now have a reputation, and will try to live up to it, but I can honestly make no guarantees.”
All the dinosaurs agreed and promised Steve that they understood the situation.
The visitors remained in Wyoming visiting until April 1st, after which Edmontosaurus and Styracosaurus returned to Alberta, BC Canada, while Stegosaurus returned to Colorado, in search of the warmth and familiarity of his own home cave as well as the next adventure. Along the way he made some extra money by playing extinct in any Natural History Museum he encountered upon his route, returning home to Colorado in April 1st.
