Booming Banter

Ma had to go to the pharmacy this morning to pick up more of Dad’s prescriptions.

I wanted to go but she said I had to stay home and take care of the niece.

After fighting some we decided to sleep as Dad doesn’t like taking care of us especially if we are having a run around. He gets grumpy.

Ma decided to get her Covid booster and flu shot while she was at the pharmacy.

She had to wait an hour so she did some grocery shopping.

She’s in a bad mood though because she hates waiting and they wouldn’t take her before her scheduled time even though no one was there.

I told her chill and to quit moaning.

She’d know her driver if she was waiting all day every day like me for someone to come home and free her from the confines of this prison of a house I’m in.

Especially when my cell mate is the producer of the stinkiest farts in the world.

Maybe I’ll call her and ask her to pick up some meds for her too.

Blessing#1170-Multitasking

Ma is preparing to get the groceries in for her baking extravaganza tomorrow and Tuesday.

She’s getting ready for her Victorian Christmas next Saturday at the Tearoom.

I’m helping. She says what I want her to make wouldn’t fit with the taste of most people in the USA!

She pulling out lots of old recipes.

Granny’s boiled fruit cake is right up there.

Don’t know why that made Ma go all soft. She says it’s because it’s in Granny’s writing and is all full of marks of love from much use.

Her own cook book from school days is already half a century old and has been through the wars. Afternoon tea is a key section.

It’s great for reenacting the past.

Maybe a record party will be in order some day!

Blessing #1169-Retro

Mom and me woke up at 5:30 this morning. We lay and had a cuddle and talked about being kind to those around us. At 5:50 we decided we’d get up and have a quiet brekkie before mega mouth made manifest.

Well the best laid plans never running smooth and all that swiftly swung into action.

Who did we meet but the bro.

“Are you just coming in now” Ma asks him.

“No” he says “I’m getting ready for work. I have to make dough.”That would be the literal sort! Seems they’ve already thousands of pizza orders to fill.

It’s the great rivalry game today in football Ohio State versus the team up north (for the uninitiated that’s Michigan). It is sort of like the rivalry between me and mega but not quite as great.

So what does all this mean for Mom and me? Well of course since the bro is up the mega is crying to get her brekkie too.

This is where those of you with a light stomach need to disconnect.

You see as soon as the vacuum sucks up the kibble it has to be emptied.

This can be taken care of and removed when there is light in the sky but when it’s pitch black it can result in the creation of unidentifiable minefields in our yard.

Ma marks these potential stinkers with brightly colored bags filled with stones and then recovers the production when she can see it.

However, with the sun setting early in the evening and Ma only getting home after dark, we’d run out of mine markers such is the production of the beast.

That’s when Ma and me had to get creative. What can we find at this time of morning to make more markers.

Brainwave!

What do we have lots of?

What else but empty pill boxes!

Dad you don’t know how much you helped us! You really diffused a potentially stinky situation!

Blessing#1168-Innovation

Greetings good people. Nala your Pitty Pups reporting today!

We had a very short trot this morning as the ground is covered in white stuff.

It tastes like ice cubes and I enjoy licking it.

It does give your feet a funny feeling though. They get sort of burnie.

Granny says I move like a Lipizzaner well today gave that a whole new meaning. I was dancing!

I nearly took the old soul of her feet a few times. Better be careful because if she’s down we will get no outings! See I’m smarter than you all think!

The uncle says this is just the start of tootsie trouble. It’s going to get worse before it get better and I need to toughen up.

My Dad is giving me some strategies that the Eskimos use.

He is my hero. Love him so much I just smacked him one.

Blessing#1167-Rubbing Noses

The bro declared he didn’t want Turkey today.

Go figure he adopted a gobbler so hardly needs another one.

That left a lot of space in our oven as the salmon we are having will only need an hour.

So Ma decided to make Dad his favorite muffins and the bro some sausage rolls for breakfast.

They looked kinda dodgy. I think I should have had them as they are definitely seconds if not thirds. He declared them delicious and shared only a meager crumb.

Anyway all this delayed our walk till 8:30 and resulted in a first.

We got caught in the Powell Annual Turkey Trot on our way back from the park.

I behaved well as the hundreds of runners wound their way through our neighboring neighborhood. The niece wanted to run with them and tugged us along for half a mile.

Her neck is now nearly as long as a turkeys so I’m giving it a nibble while we watch the Macy’s parade.

Hope you have a great day. I plan on eating as much as possible. There will be no waste here as the walking waste disposal unit will take care of that!

Blessing #1166-Feasting

Sometimes if Ma is at home during the day she’s had enough of the news by five o’clock and wants to see something light hearted.

Last night we watched a movie about a dog called Bridell.

Man that dog is as ugly as sin, even uglier than the niece.

Anyways like all good rescue dogs like me it made this nasty man a much better person.

He started out by throwing the dog down a laundry shoot but ended up being converted to minor sainthood.

The inevitable also in Ma’s sort of movie he fell in love.

To make the whole thing even better they played music by Van the man.

So even though we haven’t watched this before it’s being added to our watch again when you need a lift list!

Blessings #1165-Pawfect Plot

Ma is on the war path. We got into a tangle on our walk this morning when we spotted some venison on the move and we nearly broke her pinky. It’s taken on a peculiar allure.

She screamed blue murder at us and vowed that we were going to be kept in check from now on.

She went shopping and is now back with two retractable leashes for monster dogs.

One is made in Germany and Ma says that’s for me as it should be of excellent quality and hold me tighter than a straight jacket. I’m definitely number one puller in this place.

She will be in for a shock if it’s as feeble as it wrapping because the niece noshed that up in no time.

The dark side is getting a made in China but it’s also for a hundred pounder so it should hold her tight for a time too.

Secretly we are happy to have these new gizmos because our old leashes were way to short and no fun at all.

We’re going to test them out this afternoon in the sunshine. We’ll be good at least until pinky has straight!

Blessing#1164-Equipped

Yesterday it was wet wet wet so we were stuck indoors watching TV and vegging.

Ma likes to watch educational things in the afternoon as she saves the soapy stuff for the evening with WINE!

We were once again subjected to NOVA and it was all about black holes.

She likes things about the universe because it makes her reflect on the divine and the vastness of space.

Well this business of black holes made me think of something or should I saw someone also! I too can be very philosophical.

They chew up everything around them.

See what I mean.

Once they get sufficiently dense they explode and spew out a new galaxy.

Not sure if she’ll produce a galaxy but this black body is set to explode soon. Keep clear bro!

Blessing #1163-Parallels

The niece is back to her usual form.

She’d eat the arm of you.

Yesterday already she tried to devour a remnant of a dead animal.

It looked like a squirrels tail but we didn’t studied it in depth.

Poor Ma had to pull it out of her mouth.

I nearly puked. The bro was warned she might too but she didn’t.

Today she downloaded about a kilo of kibble!

She also got her first taste of soda bread.

Ma was sending cards to our nears and dears in Northern Ireland and she got a hankering for home.

It’s sticks to your ribs that soda especially if it’s stuffed with ham and fried eggs.

It didn’t quite fill up the bro though.

He is nom noming away on Frosties as we write. Since he’s generous he’s sharing with us canines.

As they say the apple didn’t fall far from the tree with his daughter.

Blessing #1162-Brunch Crunch

Nala here your poor Pitty Pups.

I have been subjected to such unimaginable trauma.

I was taken to this place and they knocked me out.

When I woke up I was definitely no longer my former self. Part of me had been extracted and it wasn’t a tooth!

I’m improving and firing again on two cylinders but I’m certainly not the same girl I use to be.

I’m not sure I can trust these humans again.

The pain meds aren’t bad, taste a bit like a treat, though they make you feel real woozy.

See my uncle Scooby though he’s been great.

Looked after me like a gardien Angel.

I think we may have come to a different understanding and deeper respect for each other at least until such times as I can grab him by the scruff of the neck again.

Blessing#1161-Convalescing