Booming Banter

Have you been following the visit of the King and Queen to the USA?

They are certainly packing a lot into their trip.

I’ve had to listen to all the speeches as Ma is keen to get every nuance. It was a great surprise that Rory got a shout out from President Trump. We think that’s a BIG hint to the King that a certain person deserves a knighthood.

All in all the speeches have been entertaining as well as highly diplomatic.

You have to ask yourself where these people in their late seventies get their energy from.

Maybe if we had cooks and dressers and cleaners and drivers and such we’d have their stamina too but you have to give it to them they are all working hard.

I know this evening we’ll have more to listen to but I’m resigned to it for now.

Blessing#2757-Between the Lines

Precious Peeps it’s PITS here to heave you over the humpty.

Today I have a piece of Pitty philosophy for you.

Sometimes you’ve got to wait.

Take me. When Daddy goes to work I sit at the door for a while just in case he’s made a mistake and it’s his day off and he comes back.

Usually I sit there for about ten minutes before KONG calls and I go chat with him.

Life then usually swings into action. Granny takes the Gizz and me trotting, I have a long siesta when she goes to work and then before you know it Granny’s home and it’s dinner time for me.

When Granny starts cooking I know it won’t be long till Dad is back so I take my place again behind the door and eventually he arrives.

Now here’s the thing I could have sat there all day just waiting and doing nothing but instead I packed in quite a bit. So if your waiting for something special be like me and get yourself some fun distraction like a good walk or a good sleep or a good meal and the time will fly by.

Speaking of meals I hear the kibble hitting the bowl.

I’ll be back Friday with more wisdom for the weekend

Blessing#2756-Purposeful Patience

Precious Peeps it’s PITS here to heave you over the humpty.

Today I have a piece of Pitty philosophy for you.

Sometimes you’ve got to wait.

Take me. When Daddy goes to work I sit at the door for a while just in case he’s made a mistake and it’s his day off and he comes back.

Usually I sit there for about ten minutes before KONG calls and I go chat with him.

Life then usually swings into action. Granny takes the Gizz and me trotting, I have a long siesta when she goes to work and then before you know it Granny’s home and it’s dinner time for me.

When Granny starts cooking I know it won’t be long till Dad is back so I take my place again behind the door and eventually he arrives.

Now here’s the thing I could have sat there all day just waiting and doing nothing but instead I packed in quite a bit. So if your waiting for something special be like me and get yourself some fun distraction like a good walk or a good sleep or a good meal and the time will fly by.

Speaking of meals I hear the kibble hitting the bowl.

I’ll be back Friday with more wisdom for the weekend

Blessing#2756-Purposeful Patience

It’s great having friends like Auntie Marsha and Uncle Jim who have a farm because they bring you all sorts of goodies.

On Sunday they swung past our house with a haul of asparagus for us.

Ma cooked it up yesterday with some new potatoes and salmon. It smelled so good.

I’m generally not a greens sort of guy but those little spears are tasty.

They have a very distinctive smell and here’s the best bit I noticed it’s a smell that keeps on giving long after the dinners done.

It’s like a whole lesson on amino acid and protein metabolism in real time.

I’ll spare you the details but you’ll know it involves the kidney too.

Blessing#2755-Asparagine

Do you ever have a dream where you dream your having a dream and in that dream you wake up and then go back to sleep and have the dream again?

I don’t but Ma says that it’s a very strange feeling because when you eventually do wake up you wonder are you still dreaming.

This leads me to the conclusion that humans need to concentrate on being alive and alert.

Take my adventure of yesterday.

As we were trotting along a truck drove past with the window down and a great golden retriever hanging out of it. Her locks were like Rapunzel!

I yanked my leash from Ma’s paw and took off after the truck. Believe it or not I caught up with it after about two hundred yards.

The driver saw me eventually and stopped but by then I had the itch to keep running so I did.

Ma was hurtling after me with Jaws in tow.

After a further two hundred yards or so I decided I’d had enough and let her catch me.

She was raging, I was exhausted, Jaws was jealous and we trotted home together.

Ma said that I could have been killed and it was a nightmare to watch. I said enough of talking about dreams for one day but if I see that gorgeous retriever I’m definitely chasing her truck again.

Blessing#2754-Repetition

Ma is counting down the days until a new epic is released on Brit Box.

It’s the story of Mary Bennett one of the five Bennett sisters.

We all know that in Pride and Prejudice she comes across as something of a nerd and her musical performances were dubious at best.

This will be a new twist on the book worm. She’s not what we all think.

Ma often thought that Mary should have married Rev Mr Collins. That would have been a triumph for her. The first sister married, a home of her own, mixing with Lady Catherine and of course inheriting her father’s home in due course.

It wasn’t to be though Jane Austen had other ideas.

Would you read a book called Mrs Mary Collins if I happened to put pen to paper?

Blessing#2753-Plots Thicken

Do you ever wake up and think it’s morning and then when you discover it’s only 4:30 you roll over and go back to sleep and then the next thing you know it’s 7:55. Well that is what happened to Ma this morning!

Now we have to rush and hurry scurry because we have to make “Fifteens” for the tearoom.

It’s not complicated. You turn two sleeves of graham crackers into a powder, toss in a big handful of mini marshmallows, toss in another big handful of dried cranberries and then mix the whole thing with a can of condensed milk until it looks like cement.

You then split the mix into three portions and roll each one on Saran Wrap coated with coconut. Once you have your three sausages you freeze them and then when you need them you cut each sausage into fifteen pieces or about!

There, easy peasy you can try over the weekend.

Blessing#2752-Recipe

Precious Peeps it’s PITS here to whistle you into a wonderful weekend.

Granny asked me to convey to you her regrets about getting the number wrong when typing the Grumpy Gizzards message of yesterday. Her phone is small and her thumbs are big and sometimes they get in the way of accuracy.

Now on to more important matters. This spring air and the beauty of nature have encouraged me to take up opera.

I see myself as a young Maria Callis. I’ve got the looks don’t you think?

KONG is encouraging me as always. He says that “music is the food of love”. He such a culture vulture that fish in a dish.

Sing me a sweet sonata he says each morning and in the evening a little night music is his favorite.

I do my best to accommodate him as he is such a darling. It also drives the stinking Gizzard mad.

Granny is concerned the neighbors may complain but she enjoys my gifts. I have so many it’s sometimes hard to believe I real.

I hope y’all have a chance to open up your vocal cords this weekend and let her rip. Nothing like a bit of singing for the soul.

Stay cool and if you can’t have a shower and sing in there instead.

With love and yours as always The Perfect One!

Blessing#2751-Cantata

There is something that amazes me it’s that very tiny flowers can produce very powerful smells.

Just outside our bedroom we have a bed of Lily of the Valley.

It’s coming into bloom and Ma has been oh-ing and ah-ing about how precious it is.

She’s cut a little bunch and brought it inside and it’s doing my head in.

It may smell fresh and fragrant to the hooman nose but it’s overpowering for me.

Doesn’t she realize my sense of smell is a thousand times greater than hers.

It’s like living in a bottle of Issey Miyake!

Only silver lining to this story is it does mask the pong of the PIT!

Blessing#2750-Floral Tributes

Precious Peeps it’s PITS here as PERFECT as ever and ready to heave you over the humpty.

It crossed my mind as I was about to speak with you that many of you today look forward to what was previously a pretty miserable midweek moment.

Now as you open your little peepers I see you smiling at the prospect of hearing from me. OH the joy I bring. Such a talent and beautiful to boot.

Anyway enough of that. On to recent action with KONG. He’s giving me swimming lessons.

Since the pool is in shock in preparation for the season he felt it was important that should I happen to slip into the deep end that I come out none the worse for wear.

His love is so tender.

He’s been teaching me all about breathing. Unless you have gills like his it’s imperative that you don’t gasp for air while you’re underwater.

As for getting around he says I must propel myself with rhythm and reverence not rock and roll. “Gentle doesn’t it my darling” he says.

For the moment I will practice my stokes in my head as it’s still a tad cold to dip even the tootsies in but that day of delight is coming.

Off now to kiss KONG and spread more love and laughter.

Be like me or as close as you can get to a passion for perfection!

We’ll talk Friday.

Blessing#2749-Making a Splash