Booming Banter

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

The bro went for his Covid test this morning now all we have to do is wait for the results. Immediate impact was that Ma had to cancel her dental appointment and call off her work at the mall this afternoon. Both the dentist and Debbie the mall owner fully understood.

We played a little piggy instead.

This uncertainty means Ma and Pa are grounded so we had a walk and then did our scones for the week.

I love scone day because I get the egg wash that Ma puts on top of them microwaved into a little omelette just for me.

That’s my exclusive deal with my Ma. She doesn’t give treats to her granddaughter. It stops with the snuggles.

The tike is trying hard though to get into the action.

Every time Ma opens the pantry door she’s in there.

Must say that she’s taught me a thing or two that little lady.

You should always be ready to snap ever occasion to get a nomnom.

Blessing #1068-New Tricks.

Ma was all excited yesterday morning because her pal Tjin and her son Arthur were coming to stay for the weekend from Wisconsin.

They were to arrive for dinner after their full day road trip and we were all going to eat BBQ.

Well you know it’s our house so nothing goes to plan.

When Ma got in from work at six Aaron was already home. One of his workmates had tested positive for Covid so all those who’d been in contact with this person were sent home.

Ma called Tjin who was about an hour away from our place. Tjin wisely decided since Arthur is only nine and hasn’t been able to get vaccinated yet she’d stay in a hotel.

Ma and Pa stayed home from Church so we got to play a lot which was fun. We are getting along well now and even pulled piggy together.

Aaron tried to get tested this morning and booked a slot in Columbus but when he got there no one was at the test site so he is booked for tomorrow morning.

Tjin and Arthur did come over for a walk with us to our park and fed the ducks and geese and us.

They are now off to Legoland but they will be back for dinner as it’s safe to sit far apart on the patio.

We’ll for sure get another walk with them too.

Blessing # 1067– Outdoors

Our neighbor Karen sent Ma a post about tea etiquette from a blog about all things Victorian.

If you are interested she has now posted it on her Booming Blessings Tea and Treasure page.

Being Ma she couldn’t stop at reading just that article and got into the next chapter of that blog.

That got me and the tike really bored so we started playing and playing up too.

The episode about Lammas told the story of this old style of fair held in Northern Europe including in Ballycastle Northern Ireland each year.

She learned a lot about what it means.

It’s all about breaking bread.

How appropriate that our kitchen is current full of the broken bits of bread all set to be croutoned!

Blessing # 1066-Irony