Booming Banter

Do you like Halloween? For me it’s so so because there are all these bones about but you can’t chew them.

Ma always buys tons of candy but I don’t get any because “dogs can’t METABOLIZE chocolate Scooby”!!

As for pumpkin it’s just bla but it’s everywhere!

There now if you weren’t feeling up to trick or treating you have a good excuse.

Just say you are a follower of a very wise werewolf and you’re not spooked at all.

Blessing#2931-Hocus Pocus

Precious Peeps it’s Pits here to whistle you into another wonderful weekend.

Y’all know by now that my Granny is a nutter.

Most everyone who lives in Ohio closes up their pool in early September well before the leaves start falling.

Not granny. She still has our open and man is it collecting leaves.

Why you may ask. Is the old gal into cold water swimming or what?

No dear reader it’s simply because she likes to look at it.

Well I suppose it’s pretty. Contrasts well with the foliage. Accentuates its beauty sorta like me looking in a mirror.

Be like Granny and me do whatever takes your fancy this weekend and don’t worry if anyone calls you crazy.

No matter what remember I love you almost as much as myself.

Blessing#2930-Splash Pad

I don’t understand algorithms but I like some of the Facebook feed that I’ve seen Ma receiving recently.

They’re all about little houses on wheels.

For some reason we are receiving about five of these each day.

Why is that? Is it because we clicked on one?

Is it because we look like we need a vacation.

Is it because at a certain age people start buying such vehicles.

Is it that in fall people start thinking of escaping the Midwest before the ice storms roll in.

Who knows but these little vehicles sure look cute.

I could see myself riding shotgun and the. Having a good sleep.

We could stay in parks and picnic. Should we get one?

Blessing#2929-Home on the Road

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

I am delighted to inform you that dear Aretha has been returned to her usual spot in front of our garage.

She has been completely restored to braking boldness and not just that she’s had her spark plugs changed and a whole slew of other things that were coming due.

The dealership thought it would be a good way to thank us for our understanding and patience and we said thank you very much.

This got me thinking about maintenance in living critters. We don’t have spark plugs but just imagine we did what would we feel like if they were changed. I’d say we’d be friskier maybe funnier certainly more alert and full of beans.

So let’s for the sake of it pretend today on this humpty that we like Aretha have had a makeover and run around sparkling.

Try it and see I bet people notice the difference if they don’t just tell them I’m available to provide therapy.

Blessing#2928-New Bits

Poor Aretha has left for the shop to be repaired.

A big truck came and picked her up and she rolled up and off.

We love that little lady as she has taken us so many places.

We’re not sure when she’ll be ready to return but since we couldn’t go out we kept busy baking.

Ma used up all the yogurt and milk in the fridge and made enough wheaten bread to keep us going for weeks. We froze a lot.

It’s good stuff I can tell you.

So for dinner we had to make some good thick lentil soup.

There really is nothing quite like homemade soup and wheaten bread. It makes you feel loved.

Blessing#2928-Comfort Food.

Apart from a few minutes at brekkie and our trot we saw virtually nothing of Mom yesterday. It was great!

She took the Bro’s car and went to church then shopping then out to her friends for lunch and then to the prison for her Kairos weekend closing ceremony.

The Bro and the niece and me had a ball.

We just hung out together and watched soccer and then football and we ate all sorts of snacks.

We fried up a whole load of bacon for lunch and took naps and vegetated.

It was so cool.

Eventually Ma came home but we were so tired by then that we had to go to bed.

All Sundays should be like this or at least once a month.

Blessing#2927-Doing Nothing

You know we are never short of a bit of high drama well here’s the latest.

Ma left work yesterday to go out to Uncle Jim and Auntie Marsha’s farm as they were having a family get together.

The route takes her past our house but as she was driving she heard a dull sound and thought she’d left something in the trunk. She was going slow as it’s a 35mph zone and when she went to make a turn she discovered her brakes weren’t working. Yikes.

So of course she couldn’t go on to the farm that was miles off but she made it the half mile to our door.

When the Bro got in from work he saw there was something hanging down under her car. It was the brake caliper he said and there was fluid on the ground by her car.

Ma had had new brakes fitted front and rear less than two weeks earlier so something is not right here but that will get fixed.

Now here’s the thing this happened almost at our door but it could have happened in a neighborhood with children playing, or on a highway when she was going fast, or out on one of the remote country roads to the farm or at a major junction on a main road.

The possibilities are endless. Ma says she feels sure her guardian angel aka as Dad was watching over her.

Blessing#2926-Saved

Do you like being quiet? I mean hearing nothing?

This can happen here now at night because there is no AC or heating on.

It’s funny because the quieter everything is the more each noise that does happen makes you jump.

The squirrels sometimes drop nuts from one of our big trees onto our roof. You can hear it in the daytime but at night when it’s still they sound like ballistic missiles.

Just got me thinking that if we all kept quiet for an hour each day, no TV , no Facebook, no barking or shouting we might hear something important.

Ma said there’s a song about this

Blessing#2925-Sound of Silence

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

Are you feeling fab after my Wednesday tutorial. I’ll give you another next week.

In the meantime a little self focus.

I’ve been reflecting on what PITS might stand for.

Pure Intelligence Takes Stage

Please Incline Towards Superstar

Put In Take Shape

Paused Intending To Somersault

Why don’t you try with your nickname and see what your hidden meaning might be.

Only positive thoughts are permitted

This will keep you busy in any situation you run into this weekend and create a warm glow.

Enjoy and know that Perfection Is Truly Something!!

Blessing#2924-Acronyms

Isn’t it great the Pope is home and doesn’t need anymore treatment.

He must be such an inspiration for so many people.

Next time the King and him meet they’ll be able to share notes.

In the past all these things would have been kept secret but it’s great to know even the most important people are still like the rest of us critters.

Here’s hoping he’s feeling up to his Latin American tour as it will be great to see the reception he gets in Peru.

We’re happy he’s well healed!

Blessing#2923-Recovery