Booming Banter

It’s Auntie Hema’s birthday so of course one of our first things to do today was send her best wishes. We have another six friends with birthdays today and that got us thinking why is today so popular.

Well according to the office of national statistics today is not one of the most common birthdays in the USA. The number one is September 17.

You can work out why for yourselves but it’s linked to a big man in a red suit!!!

Mine is number 171, dad’s is 333, the bro’s 305, Jaws is 271 and Ma’s 47. I’d never have guessed this!

Here’s a chart for you to ponder all day long if you have any desire to disconnect from world affairs.

Sometimes it does you good to simply reflect! If you have the charts for your country please share so we can have entertainment for weeks to come cross referencing!!

I hope you appreciate all the research I do for you!

Blessing#2718-Dates

I have to give it to Jaws “The Pretty Pitty” has a certain ring to it.

If she were to usurp me and start her own publication I’d have some competition as my secretary only has two paws.

I’d have to take a different angle on life. Instead of going after justice for Jaws I could become a style icon or resuscitate my political ambitions.

Maybe I should encourage her to leave me to wag alone. If she was successful she might take off and live in NYNY and I’d be so happy to have Ma all to myself.

It is a tough call. Days watching TV could get old fast. She does come in useful for some sport of a sort

I’d have no one to target with my wit and wisdom except yourselves.

I need to think this through!

Blessing#2717-Considerations

Precious Peeps it’s Pits here to whizz you into a wonderful weekend.

Kong has encouraged me to get myself known. He says I’m the next supermodel but that I must stop being so modest.

I have to PROJECT! So I’ve struck a few poses to see what y’all think.

Kong say I must start my own website. It’s very lucrative and with my beauty I should make a fortune in no time.

He says when I strike gold I can buy him a tank as compensation that way I’ll be the only DISH in his life.

He’s so funny. We have such fun together.

Hope y’all get to hang out with your honey this weekend and dream.

Be like me and love yourself to bits.

Talk soon. Toodleoo!

Blessing#2716-Projections

Have you been watching the dinosaurs on Netflix. It’s hard to imagine them walking around your backyard.

An asteroid took them out as you know and here’s the thing one exploded over Ohio two days ago.

The thing was a massive seven tons and was seen all the way across the USA.

It succumbed to atmospheric pressure about two hours drive from us in the Lake Erie region.

When it popped it released the equivalent of 250 tons of TNT and the sonic boom was heard for miles and miles.

Seems that bits of it are scattered all around our State. No doubt they will soon be for sale on eBay!

So aren’t we the lucky ones that it didn’t land or we’d have been thinking it was a nuke and who knows what might have happened then!

Blessing#2715-Close Call

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

Did you have a fun Saint Patrick’s Day. Granny had Guinness she poured some out for Dad and Grandpa but neither of them drank so she necked it all. Smells so stinky!

I bet that young Jessie Buckley had a few bevies last night to celebrate her win at the Oscar’s. First Irish woman ever to win one.

She is almost as beautiful as me. That dress was perfection. If you gotta wear clothes make them stunning. I also was impressed that she didn’t talk like Shakespeare’s wife she had a really broad Irish accent.

Did you watch her movie Hamnet. We did. She is brilliant but it’s all a tad too sad for me.

Anyway I thought I’d best keep Kong diverted well aware from the TV when she is on in case he might ditch me for her. You never can be too careful.

I’m still PERFECT and so is my Fish! We‘ll talk to you Friday from our island paradise. In the meantime take rest and stay smiling. I love you!

Blessing#2714-Victorious

A happy Saint Patrick’s day to all you little leprechauns out there.

We were very busy yesterday preparing for an event at the tearoom today.

There is going to be some shenanigans along with soda bread and apple cake.

We made both oven and griddle soda and we’ll let you know which one is rated best. We’re rooting for the griddle farls since we’re from the North!

Do you ever think about how soda bread was invented? Well we hate to disappoint you who think Saint Patrick ate it because he didn’t!

It came to Ireland in the 1800s as an invention brought to Europe from Native Americans. The first soda bread recipe was written by an English man!

Well doesn’t matter a jot as it’s now well and truly linked to the Emerald Isle and makes many a morning brighter.

Enjoy what ever you do today and be sure to turn the sunny side up just like the good Saint!

Blessing#2713-Potash

You all know how much Ma loves a good bargain. Well this weekend she excelled herself.

There was an estate sale just round the corner from us on Saturday. For those of you who aren’t from these parts estate sales are when someone has moved to a retirement home or have passed away and the entire contents of their house is sold.

Ma went looking for teapots but they had none. Instead in the basement she found a huge tote box filled with candles marked $5

The poor man running the sale had to carry it up to her car and was quite exhausted by the weight.

Yesterday we sorted everything out. In total she’d snagged 28 large pillar candle a dozen taper candles and eight tea lights.

We have them all organized now by season and they are tucked away tidily in our big living room cabinet.

It is so satisfying when this happens and made us happy especially since our supply was running a little low.

A God Wink for us to keep her lit!

Blessing#2712-Restocking

Howdee cowboys it’s Kong here to get y’all swimming this Sunday.

I’m a tad shook up right now because I got real scared last evening.

I was doing my usual thing while the tandoori chicken was cooking when all of a sudden I heard my true loves teeth hitting her Nyla kinda hard.

That’s always a sign of stress for my pretty puppy and then old Granny starts screaming. I’ve never heard her shout so loud and let me tell you she’s a sharp shouter Soon after my Father in Law to be starts swearing. Now I’m not saying exactly what he said as I’d shock you too much.

This pattern of crunch, cry and curse went on for a full forty minutes.

All became clear when they all calmed down and came over into my kitchen to eat their dinner.

Seems like a complicated issue! See England whom Ireland usual detests was playing France in a game of rugby and Ireland had just beaten Scotland so if England beat France then Ireland would win everything but if France won they wouldn’t so the Irish were cheering for the English that has never happened in the history of history before!

Did you get that. Well with two minutes to go Ireland scored and were ahead by one point and then France got a penalty and crawled back two points so in the end France won by 48 points to 46.

The high score explains what I had endured. It was worse than a stampede at the High Chaparral! Fortunately the tournament is over for another year and we can get back to simpler sports like swimming!

Y’all keep at it now and keep going round and round and round and dreaming of Pitties.

Blessing#2711-Action Packed

Yesterday it was hard to walk at all as the winds were so wild. They lasted all day. Ma who is ancient said she’d never seen wind like it in her life!!!

Trees were falling, limbs were flying all around, roofs were taking off into the sky and sadly in our town one house caught fire and within minutes the flames had spread to the next house.

People back in our old stomping ground have been without power since yesterday afternoon.

It was seriously bad and so it was just lovely this morning to get a message from Katie our insurance agent at Shamrock Insurance to explain to all her clients exactly what they should do.

She told them don’t need to wait till Monday to call me. “I’m here for you right now”. She also explained that people should take photos of any damage and can call in their contractors immediately to get things fixed.

We have thankfully no damage here at home but many people will have that’s why it gave us such a warm feeling to get that message.

Yet another advantage of living in a small town your a friend rather than a number.

Blessing#2710-Reassurance

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

Kong and I are planning to hang out together and whisper sweet nothings to each other.

We talk about all sorts of things like swimming and eating and going round in circles.

We’re planning to do some synchronized water aerobics once the pool opens. He probably will have to play his part from the sideline as all the chlorine might irritate his little gills.

It’s fun planning though.

That’s my recommendation for y’all if you happen to have nothing special going on just pretend.

Get out some paper and start making a list of all you have to do before you go on your cruise or to the beach or to the nightclub or the beauty parlor or your wedding or whatever takes you fancy.

Just thinking about it is almost as good as doing it so jump on board and be like like me.

I love y’all almost as much as Kong and hope you have a fun time doing whatever.

Blessing#2709-Dream Maker