Booming Banter

It’s the seventieth anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth’s accession to the throne.

Being regal myself I can understand the challenges she faces every day.

My Mom loves her. Sees her as the Mother of her country.

The Queen is so wise. Like myself!

She may have been one of the few born with a silver spoon in her mouth but she has been dealt some hard hands throughout the years.

Yet her Majesty soldiers on and keeps on climbing ever hill before her.

Now as a very old lady she once again has shown that she is not giving up. Rather, with immense foresight and diplomacy she is preparing the way for her successor to succeed.

I have no doubt we all can learn from this and show that we too can move on and accept almost every situation with grace, compassion and gratitude!

Blessing#1239-Servant Leadership

The bro was bored yesterday so he decided he’d weigh in on the baking business too. This time for home use!

We made chocolate chip cookies and brownies. We only got the cookie not the chips as we don’t do chocolate.

He teased us mercilessly and as a punishment got a call from his manager to say as soon as the emergency lifted he had to work!

Served him right.

The niece was annoyed as she had plans for a play day with him. She put on her « I’m a poor princess. Please Pitty me pout»

Did her no good at all. Instead she had to listen to Dad shouting at her and me stealing her Nyla.

I soon got bored with the babe and slunk off to bed.

A shut eye restored me to my usual jovial self.

This morning I was on top form and Ma braved the cold to take me and the menace for a one miler. The snow is pure white and has little sparkly bits in it that are shiny like diamonds. Hope you can see them.

We enjoyed crunching and said hi to some birdies who were the only living beings around. They are all fluffed up to keep warm.

Ma has gone to work so I’m holding down the fort with Dad while the niece and bro snore some more.

They are so lazy not like me at all.

Blessing#1238-Whitest White

Hi Pitty Peeps! Happy weekend.

Mine started yesterday.

We got so much snow we have been ordered by local officials to stay home. Only emergency vehicles are allowed on the roads! Yippee!!!!

What fun I have had. Never known such joy!

I have also been very busy.

Playing.

Baking

Eating a mountain of pizza that the bro brought home when his shop shut. There was one large for each human so plenty to share with canines!!

Sleeping.

I clean wore out the Grey Gizz. He went white in the beard overnight.

I tried to give him the kiss of life but he pinned me and smacked one on my lips instead.

Hope you have a wonderful time too. I plan to continue making the most of us all being together in our lovely cosy kennel

Blessing#1237-Level 3

We were expecting to wake up to at least a few inches of snow.

Instead we got 100% pure ice.

Both the niece and I are partial to ice cubes but these were too small to crunch.

They make a strange noise when they are falling from the skies.

They also make the road like a skating rink.

We could pretend we were competing in the Winter Olympics.

Or we could test out our new recipe for gluten free cookies, plan a long fiesta siesta and declare closure.

Guess what we choose.

Blessing#1236-Testing Times

I listen to Al Roker ever morning on the TODAY show. He’s so funny.

Even though it’s Wednesday he said it was 2/2/22 day. Get it!!

I laughed.

Maybe I could take up weather forecasting myself like that stupid ground hog.

Ma is not laughing though about what lies ahead for tomorrow.

We are in the path of this storm that’s affecting nearly half the country. It’s the ice that gives her the shivers. If you’ve ever had to drive on ice you know that no four wheel drive or special tires help. You just crawl and slide.

She may have to close the Tearoom and stay home.

Can you all join me please right now in hoping we get dumped on that way she’ll have to take a day off and snuggle with me and get that kissy kissy critter out of my hair.

Blessing#1235-Weather Watching

Hello TIGERS!

My first Chinese New Year with y’all.

Granny who is a Rat is doing something special at the Tearoom.

Free green tea made the Chinese way all this week. It’s the good stuff too! She is feeling generous.

I don’t drink tea but I will for sure partake in spring rolls, dumplings and fortune cookies with the Gizz. He’s a pig!

No offense Gizz but it’s very appropriate!

Daddy’s a dragon which explains his appetite and loud and smelly farts.

Grandpa is a dog which is maybe why he can’t stand me. Competition!

See I know so much.

Like a good little ratter Granny found another Treasure in the thrift store so appropriate for this week.

Can you believe it!

KEY message from the master. You must have Purpose, Flow and Patience.

I have mastered the first. It is to eat bones as big as an ox like me.

Blessing#1234-Signs.

What excitement we had yesterday afternoon. There was an epic struggle and for once it wasn’t between me and Mega!

The Bengals from Cincinnati made it to the Super Bowl finals.

It was a real bone cruncher. We watched in awe.

Ma was screaming like a crazy critter. Although she took the noise to a new level just now when the monster ate a hole in her favorite chair but I digress.

An Ohio team has never won the Super Bowl and it’s been thirty odd years since the Bengals made the final.

They were the real underdogs but they did it.

The bro will need to start making dough now to be ready for the pizzas that will be ordered on Sunday February 13th.

Is it any coincidence that tomorrow heralds the start of the year of the Tiger.

Just saying those Rams better watch out.

Gotta get going on learning the chant!

Blessing#1233-WHODEY

You may wonder what a stinky little green thing has to do with a wonderful day well read on buds.

After Church Ma dropped Dad home and she’s like « let’s go Scoob we need to get dumplings and fortune cookies »

See Chinese New Year is approaching and any excuse she gets to stuff her face she takes it. In that regard she’s like Mega. Needs to work on appetite control does Ma.

So we ditched the niece and hit the road.

It is so balmy. The temperate crept up above freezing today so Ma could leave me in the car for a few minutes without being arrested.

At the Chinese store she always finds somethings to tempt her and today it was greens. Fortunately not anything alive that bites humans!

Other people were buying those.

I’d have had to take a back seat if she’d got any living critter.

Back home she starts. She chops up a few of these little boks and fries them and then a few more and then it’s what the heck they are healthy I’m going to eat the whole bag.

Once she starts eating them, with her chop sticks of course to get the full effect, she just can’t stop.

Of course this indulgence induced stomach swelling and sleep. So we just had a great siesta fiesta and are ready for a walk.

We’ll take big ears since we are now feeling refreshed and need to walk off the excess before dinner.

Blessing#1232-Chomping Chow

It’s beautiful looking out our kitchen window but it’s a day when you can’t go too far outside as again it is perilously cold.

As my Mummy’s Mummy always said there is always someone worse of than yourself.

The Eastern seaboard is being hammered by snowmagedon. A State of Emergency has been declared in seven states already. Boston is getting three inches of the white stuff each hour!

So since we are stuck in Ohio we made some chili to warm us up. We can forecast it will be even more windy tomorrow! Isn’t that funny! I’m such a joker not grumpy at all!

Once that was on we did a bit of reading as we couldn’t walk even a half mile.

We read about sleeping habits of canines and humans and learned some very interesting things.

I always sleep with Ma and tend to lie towards the top of the bed which makes me, it would seem, a very important person.

Big ears sleeps with the bro and gets buried under the covers. She emerges from the depths like a whale surfacing for air.

Don’t know what that says for her position in the pack but I reckon she’s at the bottom of the heap.

Blessing#1231-Pyramid Positions

Hi fans! Pitty Princess on duty today.

There is some fresh snow this morning which is fun but still I’m a little bummed.

All my squirrels have disappeared. No Tracks at all in front of the ranch except the ones me and granny and grumpy made!

I need to have something to chase to keep the shivers away.

No deer about either. The only one I saw this morning was standing rigid like an ornament.

The birdies too are all quiet and hidden from view.

Auntie Denise says they are all in their warm spots waiting for the arctic blast to pass.

So since she’s the only moving critter around apart from Granny and the Grey Gizz I’ve decided to chase her instead.

Anything to keep me from freezing! i might even accept a lick from the Gizz now that we’re back in the bunker.

Blessing#1230-Nests