Booming Banter

The thing is always getting me in trouble.

If its not Ma huffing with me about roughIng her up its Dad screaming about racing round the room after her. Disrupts his oxygen.

She puts on this ”butter wouldn’t melt in my mouth” look.

But she got sussed today.

A big lump of innards from a toy she has been eating was stuck to her lips!

I had a great big smirk on my face when Ma told her off and chased her back to the snoring bro!

Blessing 1140-Evidence

To say that today is nasty is an understatement. Pouring.

The tike would not walk further than our front yard.

She is not speaking to me.

Nor is Mom as I had a go at the niece last night and scratched her on the nose and cheek close to her eye.

Ma ate the face of me and hasn’t spoken to me since.

She is being a little unfair as the reason for my displeasure was that the niece tried to get up close and personal with Mom during my snuggle time with her.

All you can do in times like these is remember the beauty of days past like the lovely outing Ma had with me this week when we drove through the country to my beauty parlor.

Sometimes you need the contrast to see the glory.

Blessing #1139-Hope Ahead

Hi Lovelies this is your favorite pitty pups Nala!

Yesterday I suffered severe trauma.

My uncle and hero the mighty Scooby the scruffy disappeared.

I cried all day and gazed out the window.

Eventually after much praying, close to six in the evening, the door opened and in came my Granny G with a strange skinny creature I had never seen before.

Having sniffed his neck all I could get was lavender.

The rear approach helped me identify that it was my beloved leader and Emperor!

He is now reestablished on his throne and I am once more happy and secure.

Don’t say a word but he sure looks naked to me!

Blessing #1138-New Clothes

There’s early rising and then there is too early rising.

This morning at two o’clock alarms started going off.

The power had gone off so Dads oxygen generating machine started screaming.

The power company estimated restoration by six but you never know.

We got Dad on his little portable tank but then we realized that we didn’t know how to switch the flow controller to the bigger cylinder.

One had a gasket but the other two didn’t. We were green!

The bro googled how to make the switch and was confident he could handle the one with the gasket but we were worried if we needed the others how we should connect them.

So we called the providers of the equipment and they called us back. Poor people had to wake up a technician to give us the instructions.

No sooner had he called than the juice was back on.

Back to bed and in all of this the tike never stirred!

PS secretary was so overwrought she forgot to push publish button!

Blessing #1137-Practice Run

There are all sorts of days.

So this morning Ma whispered in my ear, while we were having a snuggle, that we’d make October 25th the ”Love Your Nemesis Nala Day”

After all the same sun rises on us all.

Ma had been inspired by the sermon Pastor Justin and Pastor Katya preached together yesterday. If you’d like to hear it here’s the link.

The niece is making some progress I must say like not eating hedgehogs.

She annoyed Dad something shocking though this morning, spilled his coffee all over everthing.

Knowing she was in deep trouble she pinned her ears back and snuck off to the brother’s bedroom.

That was a cue for Ma and me to go out in the car.

We had nearly run out of poop bags. As you all know what goes in must come out and a lot goes into mega mouth.

So we went to the dollar store.

We got her a new leash which was terrible generous of us.

Hope she understands all my treat money is holding her tight!

Blessing #1136-Practicing what we Preach!

Never in the canine history of this household, that has been going strong since 1995, has this happened.

WE HAVE RUN OUT OF DOG FOOD!

The last morsels were poured out of the bag this morning.

You might blame mighty mouth as she eats twice as much as a great dane.

The truth is though that all the responsibility lies with my Mother.

She runs on empty all the time and it would seem thinks we can too.

Dad is usually the driving force behind food shopping and when he was in charge we always had a bag in reserve.

If herself would spend more time shopping for us rather than finding and selling “Treasure” we’d all be in much better shape.

Thankfully the bro has the afternoon off or the tike might start chewing on me!

Blessing #1135-Brotherhood

In the Florence Harding book Ma found yesterday there was an old book mark.

Of course being a nosy sort I told Ma she had to invest who this dude was.

Turns out it made sense he was where we found him.

Having discovered one God my immediate next question was ”is there a DOG God” since I obviously could be one!

Heck of course there is.

He’s a bit creepy though and man does he bear a striking resemblance to the nasty niece!

Blessing #1134-Understudies

Ma is hard to annoy on a Friday although the tike is trying her best to make her mad. Don’t let innocent looks deceive you! It is demonic!

She took us both for a walk in the rain while the white washing was in. Since it takes 70minutes we got to go far far away.

When we came back she had a quick soak and then took off for work all smiles.

This is because she knows that there will inevitably be garage sales to visit.

The mental telepathy between us is so strong I can tell you already that she snagged some great treasures.

A collectible jar for Beanie Money that I trust means snacks!

A book on First Lady Florence Harding that should sell fast since she lived just across the road from the tearoom.

A boxed set of LPs for Christmas time. Not long now till I get my annual megabone from the one in red. Bring it on big man!

Wonder does he go to the lost horizon? Ma thinks she found a gem with this LP. The sleeve is a work of art!

Looks like a swell place .Maybe he could take the monster there and leave her!

That would be such a gift! Is this adequate correspondence?

Blessing #1133-Letter to Santa

Round our way it is not getting light right now till nearly eight o’clock which is great because big ears can’t tell the time yet. She just goes on sleeping!

It’s great because it gives Ma and me some time to get on with things before the maniac moves.

This morning we made pumpkin muffins.

They are super easy.

Even my Ma can make them.

This recipe will give you 48 minis, ideal for afternoon tea parties plus ten biggies perfect for a breakfast snacky with your Daddy!

When you add a little frosting and, at Auntie Paula’s suggestion, a candy corn on top they don’t look bad at all!

Blessing #1132-Fall Feature

Remember the tike was cleaning the floor? Well there have been consequences.

She’s had the bro up all night with the runs. He had to take her out every two hours

Fortunately there was a full moon so he could see where he was going.

Even though the comings and goings woke us all up I recognized how appreciative I was that she went outside by planting a big smacker on her muzzle.

She’s resting now and so are my bro and me. Parenthood is tough at times! So is being an uncle!!!!

Blessing #1131– Potty Trained