(lights hum)
- [Narrator] Welcome to the Blue Briar neighborhood.
With dusk only just rising,
no creature dares awake from their slumber.
But in this quaint, mildly outdated home,
there is no such thing as normalcy.
This home's inheritor has just returned
from her early visit to the coop,
with her prized Rhode Island Red eggs.
(water splashes)
(gentle music)
Beautiful, odd, over achieving.
This is Gwen.
She holds a singular and intense passion
for the greatest gift mankind has ever been handed
since before our species walked the Earth, eggs.
(cheerful music)
With Spring well under way,
quickly approaching is the Blue Briar neighborhood fair.
A fantastic romp where children frolic
in freshly sprouted flora.
Artists of all kinds share their proudest work
and neighbors enjoy the company of one another.
(cheerful music)
Gwen takes the event a bit more seriously than this however.
She has used her unique and precise passion for eggs
to bring home the coveted Best Dish prize,
four years in a row.
(crowd applauds)
A hobby worth putting one's pride in.
There are 10 types of chickens that will lay the most eggs,
each unique depending on the chicken.
There's Leghorn, Plymouth, Sussex, Buff Orpington,
Barnavelder, Marans, Hamburg, Ancona, Hybrids,
and of course the Rhode Island Red.
(dramatic orchestral music)
(chickens cluck)
Choosing the right breed is the single most
important decision for an egg connoisseur.
Gwen treasures her beloved and rambunctious ladies
as if they were her own children.
(chickens cluck)
Gwen's love for the art of the egg
is closely followed by a strict routine.
Each evening, once her hens are roosting,
Gwen makes a visit to the nearby corner store
to purchase ingredients
for her next 24 hours in the kitchen.
(cat meows)
(soft music)
(eggs sizzle)
As a self-proclaimed god of the culinary world,
Gwen cannot risk the luxury of time off.
Gwen hasn't made or consumed a dish without eggs
in seven and a half years.
She doesn't mind though, each meal is practice.
(jazzy music)
- You be careful, that's how your father got cracked.
(Gwen snoring) (screams from the TV)
- [Narrator] Our dear Gwen
hasn't always been a champion though.
There was the Spring of 2009,
when that amateur Eugene Albert
earned Best Dish for his eccentric dill pickles.
(crowd applauds) (dramatic music)
Some do not fare well with failure.
(shouts)
(table thumps)
The queen of the Blue Briar Fair
had fallen like Humpty Dumpty from his wall.
She was in pieces, a loser.
Gwen fell into a deep depression.
But the light in her incubator hadn't quite flickered out,
for fate led Gwen to another greater loser,
one who didn't quite mind being a loser at all,
Nate.
Gwen's opposite, but other half.
His support is always nearby
and he is no less than elated to share it.
An illustrator with the fire to create,
Nate has been turned down from every art competition
in the Continental United States.
Every single year.
(soft piano music)
The time has arrived.
With her confidence in her abilities fully restored,
Gwen must pull out all the stops
to achieve a victory in her return to the fair.
(soft music)
Focus is of the utmost importance.
♪ Spooning in a spoon ♪
(jazzy music)
A bit of routine is in order before her uncertain return.
♪ Dabbled with a croon ♪
We've now reached what one woman
might consider the most important day of the year.
The Blue Briar Neighborhood Fair.
(cheerful music)
Neighbors from as far as the mouth of the Crooked Creek
have ventured out to the fair
to display their prides and passions,
and of course participate in a little friendly competition.
(soft music)
Even if they know they won't be winning that competition.
(soft music)
(crowd applauds)
(soft music transitions to mournful music)
(reflective music)
There's something poetic in the calm of being humbled.
In the acceptance of change
where change as never been invited,
in the understanding that sometimes
it's okay to allow yourself the simplicity of peace.
(soft music)
(birds twitter)
(light orchestral music)
(soft chiming)