Author: boomingbanter

When Ma came home from work on Saturday one of our big stone planters had been tipped over.

These things are super heavy so it certainly wasn’t a case of “blowing in the wind”

If it had been hit by a vehicle or mower that would certainly have caused a dent.

When she went to put it back upright the whole story took on another dimension.

Buried in the soil was a large egg!

Now how on earth could that have happened

Where did the egg come from.

Had some big chick dropped it and then the planter got knocked over somehow or is someone playing a joke on us?

Amazingly the egg was not broken!!!

Ma put it close to the pot just in case some bird is looking for it and it was still safe when I inspected it on my sunrise sortie Sunday morning!

What to do now? Should we repot it?

Blessing#2419-Mystery Move

Things are starting to heat up at the new ranch.

The rewiring has started. It will take three weeks and cost enough in snack money to feed a homeless dog shelter for ten years!!

I am concerned about my own future supply of MILKBONE. I may have to rely on Aunty Lori!!!

Ma has informed me she will have to start working Tuesday when we move to foot the bills for this adventure.

Seriously I don’t understand why we can’t be like any other people and just be content with what we have rather than chopping and changing all the time.

There! I’ve been grumpy.

Not sure if it made me feel better or worse. Probably stopped me biting someone!!!!

Blessing#2418-Crotchety Critter

So Jaws thinks Moley is a man dog.

Ha!

She hasn’t a clue. Truly she is stupid.

Moley is a fine female and therefore it is me myself I that may make a proposal.

She is a bit young for me though.

If I were to pursue the new Princess in the Palace I’d also have to abandon Ma.

Since she is super stressed at present with the renovations and in need of my nightly snuggles maybe I shall stick around here.

There is no doubt though I’d make an excellent match!

Blessing#2417-Consorts

Precious Peeps it’s Pits Perfect here to project you passionately into a long Memorial Day weekend.

The weather is like a great big blob of boke here.

It has been raining non stop and it is freezing too.

It’s even colder than it was in March.

Granny keep saying “A wet and a windy May fills the barnyards full of corn and hay”

I keep telling her I don’t give a toot.

I would like the chance to bask in the sun just a little.

Of course I know good days are just around the corner but this is seriously just good for a duck!

Still dear reader regardless of this climatic catastrophe I will soldier on as you must too.

Eat pizza, chew down on some cheesy whotsits and guzzle a fizzy or two.

After all that you won’t feel like doing much more than sleeping anyway.

Blessing#2416-Comatose Conditions

We had a very early start this morning. We were up and onto our business by 6:00 am.

See last Thursday the trash guys came real early and missed our house and many others.

The recycling peeps came at their regular time so that was taken but we were left with a trash can full of garbage and something else.

Some years ago when she was more than “méchant” my niece ate a hole in one of Ma’s favorite arm chairs.

Ma kept the defective piece in her bedroom with the hole hidden by a throw.

She’d bought it as a pair in China but now that we are moving she had decided it must go.

When it wasn’t picked up last week she has since been questioning her position.

So I said “Ma look at it like this, if they don’t get it this time it is a sign to say get it fixed”

Given that it is pouring outside it will be well washed.

Blessing#2415-Dumped Deal

Precious Peeps it’s me PITS your one and only perfect princess here to help you over the humpty.

I have high hopes of making it to a real palace sometime soon.

Her Majesty has been to Battersea and adopted Moley.

She chose the name because she thinks he looks like a mole.

I agree he is a little dodgy but couldn’t care less if he looked like Godzilla if he gets me a place in the palace I’m all in to tie the knot.

I can hear you from here saying he’s too young for a mature maiden like me but that’s not a bit of a problem for someone as fit and fabulous as myself.

I will expect you all to bow but no need to curtsy if you are over fifty and have dodgy knees.

Keep on worshipping me and I’ll speak to you at the weekend

Blessing#2414-Yoonger Men

What did you think of when you saw today’s number pop up?

Was it the July 4th fireworks or are you more of a musical buff who went straight to the overture?

Being the culture vulture of our family I thought you’d like to know a little more about why Tchaikovsky wrote the piece.

It was all to do with the successful defense of the Russian empire against the invasion of that fierce Frenchman Napoleon in 1812.

It wasn’t the history that inspired the maestro though it was the epic depiction of the events of that autumn written much later in Leo Tolstoys War and Peace.

Makes you wonder which author will write the epic about Vladimir Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin and who might compose the tune!!

Blessing#2413-Victorious

Sometimes it feels like I live in a zoo.

Not only is Benjamin Bunny and his entire family circle encamped in my yard but we now have at least two coyotes!!

A neighbor spotted the first at 8:55 and posted immediately on our local facebook group page not fifteen minutes later the parents spotted another.

This one was audacious stood gazing at Ma as she tried to get its photo.

We suspect that they may have sensed the birth of a fawn is imminent!

It’s a bit scary though that these critters are out in full view in the middle of the day.

We are going to stay vigilant as the last thing we need is a case of rabies.

Blessing#2412- Distant Relatives

If you have a week ahead when it seems almost every minute is accounted for does it make you want to stay in bed?

That’s what Ma and me are doing right now.

We have put all the gotta get that gotta go there gotta make this thing and that thing on the back burner and decided to stretch out really long from tippy toes to fingers and take in some gigantic yawns.

I am working on opening my eyes one at a time that way too much light can’t get inside me.

If it weren’t for the fact that I’m thirsty I might just shut them both up again.

I also may need a pee so I’ll do two more stretches and then spring into action.

Blessing#2411-Strategizing

When you are awakened by a thunderstorm of epic proportions and prolonged endurance you have to ponder something profound.

In the middle of the night we hit on a good mind blower while listening attentively for the tornado sirens.

Why are typhoons and hurricanes given different names.

Do they spin differently? Are they caused by different phenomena.

Well here’s the answer.

They’re the same! Only difference is their location.

So dear reader if you happen to be awake again tonight with the next round of storms that will be one less problem for you to solve.

Oh and for good measure they can be collectively classified cyclones

Blessing#2410-Meteorology 101