Author: boomingbanter

Maybe it’s because it’s raining all the time these days but it sure feels dull and dreary.

I get what Mariah is chanting about “it’s not like Christmas at all”!

What to do?

Step 1 – recap that Ma removed turkey from freezer and put in fridge as a reminder of only four sleeps to go.

Step 2 – make shopping list in head in sync with Ma and collectively debate on whether to buy Brussels sprouts or not agree to get them so buy extra bacon to make them edible.

Step 3 – when awakened by Casey at 2:00 am ponder if main meal is to be served as lunch or dinner. Select lunch so you can have Turkey sandwiches while watching Call the Midwife special.

Step 4– remember you already made mince pies

Step 5- decide to eat mince pies for breakfast!

Suddenly it feels just a little more seasonal!

Gotta go!

Blessing#2290-Kick Starts

Precious Peeps it’s MERRY MAGICAL ME here to project you into the frenzied Friday that is the last before Christmas.

You gotta get all those last minute gifts and groceries in.

Even though I ripped up that pillow yesterday I’m staying zen about Santa.

He knows my heart and that I am the sweetest most gentle Pitty on the planet.

Contrary to the stinking Gizz’s projection my poop like me was perfectly formed yesterday.

It is only grumpy old grey geysers like him that get the gippies when they chew on something succulent.

I am thinking Santa may realize that this need to chew is linked to boredom and bring me a nice big toy.

I’ve dropped enough hints on that subject for one day so must go now and be on best behavior since I hear Granny is in cahoots with the red coat.

Only five sleeps to go dear ones. Be good!

Blessing#2289-Never Nicer

Ma was baking scones yesterday as she’d been delayed by her other endeavors over the past days.

She decided to make two batches and some pastry for the mince pies so she was in the kitchen for well over an hour.

Dad was also busy at the kitchen table doing accounts and I was guarding the ranch.

It was therefore an ideal time for Jaws to crack on and chew up yet another pillow.

This time the innards were green so I’ll look forward to seeing the outcome of that this morning.

Festive for sure!!! Should be suitably grinch like.

It nukes her notion of being good for Santa.

Makes me so glad I’m glowing with gloating!

Star of wonder eat your heart out!!

Blessing#2288-More for Me

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

Just one more week to go until CHRISTMAS!

I’m going to do my very best to be PERFECT these next days as Santa may very well be so impressed with my endeavors that he forgets my earlier little slip up .

He’s old so it’s not hard to forget. He’s probably like Granny she sometimes doesn’t remember why she went from one room to another until she comes back to GO!

I’m a tad concerned that those reindeer the big guy uses to get around may say bad things about me as those deer all talk too much.

I’ve never said a bad thing about anyone’s nose though so I’ll just go ahead and keep mine clean and suggest you do likewise.

Talk soon, walk now.

Blessing#2287-Count Down.

It was a funny old day yesterday. Ma had to go early for her biennial bone density measurement.

She forgot that she shouldn’t take her multivitamin and calcium supplement and they were down her throat before you could say rock and roll.

She kept quiet and no one asked so she may come out 500 mg stronger than previously recorded.

When she came back we went for a walk. Weight bearing exercise is good for the old spine and joints and she bears a lot more than she did last time she had her scan.

After we returned I heard her ask Dad if he wanted to go out with her.

He said sure and they took off at eleven thirty

By then it was pouring so I reflected that it wasn’t walking weather even if she’d been home and that the best thing I could do was snooze and dream of brighter days.

Well let me tell you there is only so much snoozing a guy can handle.

When it turned three I was beginning to panic. Dad never stays away that long!

Maybe they had been kidnapped!!!

By four I was apoplectic with worry and when it turned dark at five I started to howl. Each second felt like an hour until finally I heard the garage door open and in they walked with a gigantic bag full of thrift store purchases.

If I hadn’t been so hungry and desperate for a pee and glad to see their wrinkly little faces I’d have taken a bite out of them.

So it was that when I opened my correspondence from cousin Krishna just now that I thought how ironic that I just lived a day that felt like a week.

Bet you’ve all been there too.

Blessing#2286-Bargain Hunters

Precious Peeps you weren’t expecting me were you?

Well it’s Monday I know buts it’s also my Dad’s birthday so I figured no one is positioned to wish him more good things than me.

He is the most important person in my life so here is a piece of Pitty philosophy.

Each year brings new challenges and opportunities let’s face them and move on.

I hope he will have good times ahead and we will see and do some fun things together.

Change is not always easy but it is always better than treading water and nearly as good for you as chasing deer.

Blessing#2285-Older and Wiser

Things are going from bad to worse around here when it comes to trots.

Yesterday we got a sharp shift down to the end of the street before Ma took off at 7:50.

The sky wasn’t even lit up but it was pretty.

Ma dumped us with Dad and returned at 10:30. I got confused and thought maybe it was Sunday but no.

She took THE THING and me out for another pee and then took off again this time to the tearoom.

This is not good for my waistline and it’s certainly not good for Ma’s.

I was hoping Sunday would be a better day! It’s pouring down so short it shall be.

Blessing#2284-Sun Rise

Well the niece and I are just about emerging from the dog house.

See twelve deer ran across our yard just as we were ending our morning trot.

The temptation was too great. Food for the entire year to come.

There was a little snow on the ground so Ma couldn’t get a good grip.

She was purple with rage when she caught me three houses down the street but the niece continued the pursuit.

I’ll give her that she is a tenacious little terror.

So Ma dragged me home dumped me with Dad and called Auntie Denise to the rescue.

The gals went different routes but no sight of Jaws.

You know what after ten minutes the monster returned by herself to the ranch.

Dad called Ma and she called Denise and we were all back to GO!

Mind you we were Pawsona non gratis for the rest of the morning.

Here’s the kicker the beasts were back when Ma came home from work so we had to hold our business till they had finished their feast.

Blessing#2283-Herding

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

It is Baltic here with gales blowing like crazy so when we go trotting we have to virtually gallop to stay alive.

Yesterday was trash day and on our way home from the park this gust took someone’s trash and spewed it all over another persons yard.

A great big box started after me and I was so afraid, because I am as you know a very timid type.

I pulled poor old Granny so hard to escape it that my leash snapped off my collar.

She was panic stricken I’d run off but I was so scared of that intimidating object that I stood rooted to the ground like a tree.

I was made for Florida I feel not this Ohio chiller but you know me I put up with a lot just to be a perfect pretty Princess.

Blessing#2282-Endurance

Snow is pretty but it does my head in when it’s wet and makes snow balls on my tootsies.

Ma got a taste of what that feels like yesterday as her boots started to leak.

By the time we got back we could share stories about how cold we felt.

In a case of anything you can do I can do better in think I may have won.

She could shake the boots off in the blink of an eye but it took more than a minute for those stinking snowballs on my feet to melt.

I may invest in proper winter gear this year as I’m getting too long in the tooth for this malarkey!!!

Blessing#2281-Wrapping Up