Booming Banter

You know that sometimes when Ma wakes up in the middle of the night she has revelations. Well she had one on Thursday but we saved it for today because it’s religious. Some of you might even say sacrilegious! Please don’t be offended she is old and means no harm!!

Anyway to understand this you will have to read quite a bit of background. See Ma grew up in the Church of Ireland and in their Book of Common Prayer there is the Rite of Holy Communion.

Now Ma attended church every Sunday since she was born so she became very familiar with the text. Within the service the priest can choose from different sayings taken from the New Testament and one of these is First Timothy 1;15. Ma knows them off by heart.

So for some reason this came into her head and then it struck her. Oh my lands this is so similar to the first sentence in Pride and Prejudice. She as you know is much enamored by the tale and also knows a lot of it by heart.

Why oh why had she not thought of this before? She couldn’t wait for morning she had to google if anyone had ever published anything on this idea! Well NO THEY HAD NOT.

So I now have the privilege to reveal this discovery to you. Compared if you will the two texts side by side!

Here is the piece from Paul to Timothy as stated in the 1962 edition of the Book of Common Prayer and below it the first line of Pride and Prejudice!

Can you spot the similarities! They have the same number of words exactly and they both speak of truth and global understanding and they both have hero a single young man!

Ma is now convinced that good old Jane Austen who incidentally was a Church of Englands priests daughter hit on her famous line while sitting thinking in church.

So now that you have recovered from your faint and are willing to continue reading. Here is the big question. Did Jane model Darcy on Jesus?

Ma had to google this also and it seems that some have suggested this previously but never in the context of Timothy only on Darcy virtues of love and forgiveness!

There, don’t ever say we don’t give you epic topics to reflect on. Bet you’ll be tossing this around in your mind for weeks. Ma may look into doing another Ph.D on the subject.

Blessing#2690-Food for Thought

All over Ohio, wait make that all over the USA The Knights of Columbus organize Friday Fish Fries during Lent.

Our Hoomans have been to a few in the past but none has been as AWESOME as that they partook of last evening here in Marion Ohio.

There is something about a small town that makes everything bigger and better.

The crowd was massive. Our team got there before the 5:00 pm start up and they were the 65th family in line!! Can you imagine how many people showed up before closing at 7:30 pm

The food was phenomenal.

You know the Bro has a big appetite well even he couldn’t wolf it all done. The portions are epic!

Result was they brought plenty home and gave a good big bite to me and the niece. Incidentally Ma almost lost her finger to Jaws who is particularly fond of fish!

Kong and Val closed their eyes to the scene!

I am so happy that Lent is long as I feel the vibes that this will be a weekly event for us all.

Blessing#2689-Abundance

All over Ohio, wait make that all over the USA The Knights of Columbus organize Friday Fish Fries during Lent.

Our Hoomans have been to a few in the past but none has been as AWESOME as that they partook of last evening here in Marion Ohio.

There is something about a small town that makes everything bigger and better.

The crowd was massive. Our team got there before the 5:00 pm start up and they were the 65th family in line!! Can you imagine how many people showed up before closing at 7:30 pm

The food was phenomenal.

You know the Bro has a big appetite well even he couldn’t wolf it all done. The portions are epic!

Result was they brought plenty home and gave a good big bite to me and the niece. Incidentally Ma almost lost her finger to Jaws who is particularly fond of fish!

Kong and Val closed their eyes to the scene!

I am so happy that Lent is long as I feel the vibes that this will be a weekly event for us all.

Blessing#2689-Abundance

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

I’ve been doing great and smell spring in the air. It is almost as delightful as Granny’s feet.

The Old Gal has been good to her word and taken us for good trots these past days so I have rewarded her with a fine foot massage on our return.

There is nothing better than a good lick except a real chunky chew. I could of course have a go at eating her toes but that would impact future outings. This week I did eat a wooden spatula that had bacon grease on it. Don’t ask me how it happened to jump out of the frying pan.

So as you can see I’m just as happy as can be. I’m getting lots of love from my Fish in his Dish and plenty of delicious activities going on.

I trust you too will enjoy some equally exciting fun these next days and be nearly as PERFECTLY PERKY as this PITTY.

Stay cool and if you can’t get someone to lick your tootsies!

Blessing#2688-Spa Effects

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

I’ve been doing great and smell spring in the air. It is almost as delightful as Granny’s feet.

The Old Gal has been good to her word and taken us for good trots these past days so I have rewarded her with a fine foot massage on our return.

There is nothing better than a good lick except a real chunky chew. I could of course have a go at eating her toes but that would impact future outings. This week I did eat a wooden spatula that had bacon grease on it. Don’t ask me how it happened to jump out of the frying pan.

So as you can see I’m just as happy as can be. I’m getting lots of love from my Fish in his Dish and plenty of delicious activities going on.

I trust you too will enjoy some equally exciting fun these next days and be nearly as PERFECTLY PERKY as this PITTY.

Stay cool and if you can’t get someone to lick your tootsies!

Blessing#2688-Spa Effects

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

I’ve been doing great and smell spring in the air. It is almost as delightful as Granny’s feet.

The Old Gal has been good to her word and taken us for good trots these past days so I have rewarded her with a fine foot massage on our return.

There is nothing better than a good lick except a real chunky chew. I could of course have a go at eating her toes but that would impact future outings. This week I did eat a wooden spatula that had bacon grease on it. Don’t ask me how it happened to jump out of the frying pan.

So as you can see I’m just as happy as can be. I’m getting lots of love from my Fish in his Dish and plenty of delicious activities going on.

I trust you too will enjoy some equally exciting fun these next days and be nearly as PERFECTLY PERKY as this PITTY.

Stay cool and if you can’t get someone to lick your tootsies!

Blessing#2688-Spa Effects

We got a rude awakening at 5:30am.

The Bro comes into our room and shouts at Ma to wake up! She thought the worst but it wasn’t it was all about the breaking news!

Can you believe it the Andrew formerly known as Prince has been arrested! On his birthday to boot! Misconduct in Public Office!

This gives some medieval vibes to the current period. Those ancients were always throwing each other into the tower weren’t they.

As we type the King has spoken saying the THE LAW MUST TAKE ITS COURSE!!

Oh my goodness this is epic I must eat or I may faint!

Blessing#2687-History Making

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

Hope you enjoyed your dumplings or pancakes yesterday.

There is so much going on this week I just can’t believe it; Granny’s birthday, Presidents Day, Pancake Tuesday, Chinese New Year and now today the start of Lent and the start of Ramadan. Holy smoke how many things all happening at once.

It must be something to do with the moon or the stars.

That would make Granny kind of special and I knew that already.

She may shout and scream now and then but since the ice has melted she’s trotting like a gelding. Took us for a three miler yesterday!

I have it on good authority that the intent over Lent is to get in at least one good walk a day. Let’s see!

Must dash now as Dad will be coming home from the night shift and he and me need to feed Kong and Val so they can gobble up and do their stuff before Granny changes their water.

Love for now, I’ll stay PERFECT and we’ll talk on Friday.

Blessing#2686-Alignments

It was exceptionally kind of the country to declare a national holiday for Ma’s birthday. It felt fun to have everyone off work just for her!!!

It was also exceptionally kind of DISNEY+HULU to launch LOVE STORY. They hit us up with just three episodes which was a perfect quantity for maximum enjoyment.

Ma was enthralled. It is a wonderful tale of love between JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.

So far we’ve only got to the part where they meet and he is still dating Daryl Hannah while Carolyn is working at Calvin Klein.

It’s all recent history but so cool as Ma can remember it all from reading People magazine like it was yesterday.

Anyway the end to this chapter comes with the death of Jackie O and is so sad.

This has got it all. Drama, fashion, highs and lows and of course LOVE.

You absolutely must catch it if you can. Ma is predicting it will be as good as the Crown!

Blessing#2685-High Hopes

I’m lying here close to Ma as she goes through all her birthday wishes on Facebook.

It makes her sweeter!

Isn’t it incredible that because of this app she can get messages from people all over the world some of whom she hasn’t seen in more than half a century.

Ma tells me that when she sees photos of her best pals from her elementary school that she still can see the girl or boy as they were when they all parted company at age 11.

In their faces now on Facebook with their children and grandchildren she can still see the child.

It’s probably like that in heaven too that people are always the same person but you can see them at different times and places and still recognize them.

Enough now of this deep dive let us proceed to festive feasting and eat some chocolate cake for brekkie. I promise I’ll only have a crumb or two!!

Blessing#2684-Happy Day