Author: boomingbanter

The rain was coming down in sheets at our usual trot time so we got the micro version to get our jobs done.

When we came back Ma dove into the laundry room.

We could hear her huffing and puffing and throwing things around which usually means she is mad.

We couldn’t work it out as we’d been good on our walk!!!

She emerged for breath a few times and brought out a shelf. She looked triumphant.

I’ve liquidated one shelf she yelled to Dad!

She then returned to the depths and continued huffing and puffing like a dragon for another hour.

When she came out there was a full bag of trash and a gazillion empty boxes.

Dad was forced to inspect the organizational excellence.

This included the arrangement of enough cleaning fluids to see us into the next millennium as well as no less than five unopened boxes of leather cleaner.

Clearly this particular way to hell was paved with very good intentions

Blessing#2469-Small Step

If you own a dog you can probably relate to Mark Twain’s take on life.

I know Ma does and has often said this very thing to me on the quiet.

The fifty million dollar question is have you ever seen Mark’s dog?

We hadn’t.

So when we clapped eyes on it yesterday we had to share with you.

Out thoughts we’re that he is much bigger and bolder looking than we’d have predicted.

He looks almost as big as his main man Mark.

Bet he would have kept him warm on a cold night though.

Wonder would he have dug our blessing number for today. Well we will never know if he was into that sort of line up but we do!!!

Blessing#2468-Aligned and Enlightened

The Bro is digging the new ranch.

That would be literally and metaphorically!

He cleared an over grown area and cut out some deadwood in a tree yesterday so Ma could plant those perennials she rescued.

Ma as you know is hard to please but when they got home she told Dad loudly in the Bro’s presence that he’d done a GREAT JOB!

While Ma was planting the area after she’d packed up at the tearoom the Bro proceed to make himself a fire pit.

He intends to burn some of that deadwood this week.

Who knows maybe one of these days if I’m good he’ll roast me a sausage.

Blessing#2467-S’mores and More

Ma was away working at a Kairos fundraiser yesterday.

It was a dinner and WHO DID IT mystery.

She left us at midday and returned at 9:00 pm.

Of course that meant we got our evening outing with the Bro which is a 180 second circuit of our own yard.

It was steaming hot so I wasn’t to sad about that but I get very anxious when Ma is not home by six.

So what to do but wait and watch.

I’m not sure why I do this because it doesn’t seem to bring her any quicker.

I just seem to be able to breath easier if I think the next car will be Aretha.

Do you do that too?

Blessing#2466-Back to Base

Precious Peeps it’s me your PERFECT as always Pitty Pal here to project you into a wonderful weekend.

I was just getting back in my stride after the roller coaster start to the week when Granny woke me up in the middle of the night.

She had taken a fit of the giggles.

Says it happens to her now and again.

Seems she had such a funny dream that it raised her from her slumbers and she just couldn’t stop laughing.

What was the dream about you ask just as I did and here is what she said.

She was dating President Trump! Except he wasn’t President at the time he was a young whipper snapper real estate developer.

Hardly that funny is it?

Well no it isn’t until you get to the best bit. He had a great big black head just to the left of his nose and Granny was out to squeeze it like doctor Pimple Popper.

OK I admit that is a little funnier.

She woke up just as she was about to dive into it as he sat at a wooden kitchen table.

In biblical times Joseph would have had a field day interpreting this.

For now I’ll just say humans are strange especially when they are doing flips on run down houses!!

Hope this has helped you see that no matter how crazy you might think you are Granny is worse.

Blessing#2565-Cloud Cuckoo Land

So you won’t believe this one unless you believe in divine intervention.

Yesterday on the way to the tearoom Ma stopped to buy jam.

She saw that there were racks of plants outside the second hand Restore shop which was a first!

Being as nosy as Pinocchio she had to sniff this out.

There were literally hundreds of plants many of which were at deaths door but since it was marked buy one get two free Ma decided to investigate.

She went inside and asked how much a plant was and the lady said $1.

WOW!

Ma coughed up the dollar and the lady said take four and Ma thanked her and then the lady said “You know what just take as many as you want”

It was like the feeding of the five thousand on a plant platform.

The backseat if her car was filled.

Ma feels that God personally gifted this to her for the new house and she has already dibbled in the two cherry tomato plants.

The perennials and annuals will have to wait till the weekend when she has cleared a spot for them but she is as happy as a pig in muck.

She never did get the jam but she sure is jammy!!!!!

Blessing#2464-Abundance

Precious Peeps it’s PITS here to help you as always over the humpty.

I’m already a bit confused about this week because Granny and Grandpa were away Monday and then Granny had to work yesterday already so it feels like I’ve already had two humpties.

It’s like a little roller coaster.

Does that happen to you too?

If your usual routine gets out of kilter do you start thinking your lost?

It’s not a serious problem of course it just makes me tired.

I feel like I need more sleep to handle it and the heat doesn’t make it better.

Maybe this won’t help you over your humpty at all today but I thought I’d share just in case you are like me.

That way you won’t feel alone.

Be like me always get it out there and say it like it is.

Bet you’ll feel better soon especially after some snoozing.

Blessing#2463-Transparency.

I feel that the niece and I are being neglected.

Yesterday Ma and Pa left for the new ranch at 9:00 and didn’t return till 1:00.

Their excuse? Making measurements.

I know they brought Consuelo along too which is hard to take. The AI gets to go and we animated quadrupeds have to stay home.

I’m not concerned about the swimming as that wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be but the freedom to race around in circles in that fenced yard is sweet.

Oh well the good news is another job is done and we are one day closer to our move!!!

Blessing#2462-Step by Step

My Auntie Tjin is visiting Monument Valley and posted some pics including a dinosaur foot print.

Ma and I took to philosophysing when we saw this.

Is it even possible to imagine such critters walking around the yard.

What sort of noise did they make? Were they clever? How did they sleep?

Somethings we do know.

They’d be as tall as our house.

You could make a breakfast for fifty with just one of their eggs.

No matter how hard we try we still struggle to see how such dominance could be destroyed by a piece of rock from outer space.

If that hadn’t happened would we even be here?

It’s a wake up call for all species that we too could be snuffed out.

Best crack on now while the going is good and I’ve still got my human to take me for a trot.

Continue to gaze heavenwards just in case another big boy is coming.

Blessing#2461-Thoughts for the Week

JAWS is in trouble again.

She was completely conked out after our extraordinary extravaganza on the 4th but clearly had recuperated by yesterday morning.

She deftly snuck into my Moms closet and devoured her only remaining flip flops.

They happened to be a fancy pair to boot.

I don’t know if she was taking revenge on Ma for the forced exercise during the expedition or if she was hungry for more than her brekkie provided.

Either way she was in the dog house reflecting on her misdemeanors until her Dad got off work.

Heaven knows what she’ll get up yo next.

In the meantime I plan to take a short trot with her now and then rest up since it’s baking hot once more and we need to replenish glycogen stores for future doggy paddling.

Blessing#2460-Build Up