Author: boomingbanter

Do you remember some months ago my Ma went to an estate sale and snagged a big box of LPs for next to nothing?

She was excited about that but even more excited yesterday when she found the perfect record player to go with them.

Seems it’s a little portable job from the 1960s and fits her establishment to a tee. Sorry bad pun there. She forced me into that one.

Anyway so much did she fall in love with this piece from the past that she paid full asking price for it which she never does!

She says in the business world they have a name for such an acquisition.

My thought it’s worth a spin

Blessing #1078-Strategic Fit

When Ma and I got up this morning the bro had disappeared with my niece. Not a word to say where they’d gone. Road trip no doubt with his girlfriend and Nala’s sister Simba! who calls a girl Simba I ask you!!!

Ma says I’m more reasonable than the bro is!! At least I annonce arrivals and departures.

It was like super cool for me on National Dogs Day because I got MY MA all to myself and we went for a super long walk with Denise.

We hadn’t been able to do that in a long time because of heat and HER!

They’ve taken all my toys away which is hardly fair.

What does one puppy need with all MY TOYS

I’m now bored so am starring out the window looking for them to return.

What a life! Dad is so boring!!!!

Blessing #1077 -Home Alone

Ma had a total meltdown last night about eight o’clock.

I’d had the runs all day and she was picking up poop constantly. At least I did it outside. I was very thankful.

Add to this the tike was tearing up book covers and shredding papers like a machine.

She was chilling with wine and had just had some ice-cream also as a reward for her patience when all hell broke loose.

She went to put her dirty glass in the dishwasher only to discover the top rack was off it’s rails and that three of the four roller guides were broken to shreds

She tried for an hour to fix it to no avail. By this time I was desperate to get out again.

She was huffing and puffing and swearing and banging and saying all sorts of unmentionable things about the STUPID men she lives with and how SHE has to do everything herself and so on.

She calmed down this morning. Sleep always helps but then discovered that during her rant I’d had made use of the fancy sitting room for my urgency.

She was then fit to kill and ready to puke. Fortunately it was time to meet Auntie Denise who always has a calming influence on her. So I dodged the bullet yet again.

Blessing #1076-Close Call

I’m warming to the tike. She is entertaining.

She likes hide and seek.

It gives us some additional indoor exercise on these hot days as you can’t trot much more than two miles as it gets sticky and we get weary.

She chews shoes like crazy so all over our place they are now elevated like ornaments.

I think it’s funny. Ma is amused. Dad is mad!

Such is life!!!!

Blessing # 1075-Gameplay

Ma was up to her old tricks this morning.

We went round Cardinal Hill with Auntie Denise and we spotted a big pile of things set out already for trash collection tomorrow.

This included some spectacular plants. With no exaggeration each one of these containers must have cost $200!!

We speed walked home so Ma could get the vegetation into the car and back to our yard before anyone else decided they had potential.

Now they are up on the pillars of our patio!

Can you believe someone would throw these away. It’s only mid August. They can keep on growing till end of October.

Chances are even then they’ll keep going just like the ones she dived on last year that are healthy and happy at the front door of the tearoom.

She winterized them in the window. It’ll be like a Victoria Palm house this year if she brings these latest specimens inside!!!!

I had to resuscitate the tike on the return as the walk back home was so swift.

We are now kipping together with the bro as it’s his day off.

I can handle this and have explained to my niece she better get used to my Mom’s philosophy that there is no shame in the rescue treasures that cross our path. They were destined for the TLC that only we can give!!!

Blessing # 1074-A Mans Junk

It’s very toasty today. We have been taking it easy.

Ma and Pa left us alone for a while and we each slept in our separate dorms.

That’s the best way to do things.

Eating from your own bowl only means mine gets pulled and put out of reach of the tike because she has me beat on speed.

Now that she can no long squeeze through the posts in the gate we can sit outside now and then. Still I’ll keep an eye on it.

I’ve claimed my chair.

She’s working out what suits her best.

She’ll no doubt need the biggest very soon if she keeps eating and growing at the current rate.

I’ll tolerate that as long as my throne and empire are safe.

Blessing #1073-Repartion

Ma hasn’t talked to me since nine o’clock last night apart from saying let’s go to bed.

I nipped the niece again.

She was chewing my Ma’s ankle so I did it as a defensive move but Ma and Dad were very cross with me.

She was still stewing this morning until she got a call just as we got up.

Seems alarms were going off at the store.

She abandoned me.

Told the brother to shake himself and get up and take care of me and his child.

He understood the command and the urgency. So he did his duty and picked up our poop!

Seems the issue at the store was a battery out in a smoke detector. The lady who rents the apartment got her Dad over to trouble shoot. He’s a fireman so that’s lucky.

Blessing # 1072– Rescued

The fawns have been out and about the past days and are getting very playful.

They are chewing up our yard and those of our neighbors in particular those with flowering hydrangeas. They must taste good but I’m a meat man so I’ll leave it to my niece to nibble.

The fawns got me thinking that all young ones are naughty and nice.

So even if the tike chews up our things I’m giving her a dispensation and a big slobbery smacker on the lips

She’s so lucky to have me!

Blessing #1071-Toddlers

You are getting two for the price of one today as Ma was so busy she forgot to post my epistle from yesterday.

It was about the bro who thinks his Nala is a Princess.

He does all this Lion King stuff with her. Holding her up to heaven. Wish she’d move on up there!

In my mind she’s no princess she’s a pain in the butt. Has me exhausted keeping her in check.

Can’t even get a decent sleep on the couch these days.

I suppose I could get the teeth into he and finish her off.

Instead though I contain myself and show a modicum of patience even when she has the audacity to do what she did just now.

She ate my breakfast, peed on the carpet because she’d stuffed her tummy so much and then used my Ma as her pillow to sleep it all off.

Just listen to this and it’s still not 7:00 am.

Any wonder I’m huffing and puffing and ready for the hills.

Blessing#1070– Grace

The bro still hasn’t got the results of his PCR testing so Ma has dispatched him to a town thirty miles away where he can get an antigen test done today. None to be had any closer.

That way we’ll know if she needs to cancel her customers for tomorrow.

All this means we are getting more time inside together as the weather is stinking. All wet and miserable.

The only thing to do is snuggle up.

The tike is getting a lot of attention. In particular sleeping on the couch beside MY MOM. She sleeps a lot.

As soon as she’s finished her snoring Ma dives outside with her to make sure she does her tinkle.

So far so good today.

Her paws are cute but her nails are sharp as scissors and she’s ripped Ma to shreds.

Just as long as she saves her ivories for noshing. They look wicked.

She’s gained two pounds this week so go figure how much she’s eating. That probably explains why she needs all that sleep too.

Tries ever chance she gets to grab a snack from under the table. She’s learned though that I have first dibs on those and that my fags are just as sharp as hers.

Blessing #1069-Grow Girl