Booming Banter

Did you know that yesterday was International Banana Day?

We found out thanks to cousin Krishna who is smack bang in the middle of banana country in Tamil Nadu.

Dad did his usual lunch that included the famed fruit. He eats them everyday and is good at sharing.

I love them. They are sweet but not sugary and they give me a good vibration.

Did you know that the botanical name for the plantain plant is Musa Sapiens?

The fruit of the Wise Man!

Oh YES that’s why the two Krishna’s and me are mad about the mellow munchkins.

Blessing#2422-Yum Yum Yellows

Precious Peeps it’s Pits here to help you over the humpty.

As you know the Grey Gizz has been playing detective.

The only thing is he’s kept his nose to the ground.

Being in possession of more than one brain cell I keep my head high and eyes to the sky.

So it was that I spied the likely originator of the egg.

A huge bird perched on our roof.

It looks like a buzzard to me

Hope it doesn’t swoop.

There is never a dull moment down here on the farm.

Hope you’re having some excitement wherever you may be!

Love you lots and we’ll talk at the weekend.

Blessing#2421-Birds Eye View

The plot thickens.

The egg has hatched and the bird has flown or walked away.

My feeling is it must be some critter that can waddle as soon as it breaks free.

I’m a tad worried the Coyote may eat the critter.

I will be extra vigilant on my neighborhood watch.

Just call me Sherlock Scooby!!

Blessing#2420-Cracked It

When Ma came home from work on Saturday one of our big stone planters had been tipped over.

These things are super heavy so it certainly wasn’t a case of “blowing in the wind”

If it had been hit by a vehicle or mower that would certainly have caused a dent.

When she went to put it back upright the whole story took on another dimension.

Buried in the soil was a large egg!

Now how on earth could that have happened

Where did the egg come from.

Had some big chick dropped it and then the planter got knocked over somehow or is someone playing a joke on us?

Amazingly the egg was not broken!!!

Ma put it close to the pot just in case some bird is looking for it and it was still safe when I inspected it on my sunrise sortie Sunday morning!

What to do now? Should we repot it?

Blessing#2419-Mystery Move

Things are starting to heat up at the new ranch.

The rewiring has started. It will take three weeks and cost enough in snack money to feed a homeless dog shelter for ten years!!

I am concerned about my own future supply of MILKBONE. I may have to rely on Aunty Lori!!!

Ma has informed me she will have to start working Tuesday when we move to foot the bills for this adventure.

Seriously I don’t understand why we can’t be like any other people and just be content with what we have rather than chopping and changing all the time.

There! I’ve been grumpy.

Not sure if it made me feel better or worse. Probably stopped me biting someone!!!!

Blessing#2418-Crotchety Critter

So Jaws thinks Moley is a man dog.

Ha!

She hasn’t a clue. Truly she is stupid.

Moley is a fine female and therefore it is me myself I that may make a proposal.

She is a bit young for me though.

If I were to pursue the new Princess in the Palace I’d also have to abandon Ma.

Since she is super stressed at present with the renovations and in need of my nightly snuggles maybe I shall stick around here.

There is no doubt though I’d make an excellent match!

Blessing#2417-Consorts

Precious Peeps it’s Pits Perfect here to project you passionately into a long Memorial Day weekend.

The weather is like a great big blob of boke here.

It has been raining non stop and it is freezing too.

It’s even colder than it was in March.

Granny keep saying “A wet and a windy May fills the barnyards full of corn and hay”

I keep telling her I don’t give a toot.

I would like the chance to bask in the sun just a little.

Of course I know good days are just around the corner but this is seriously just good for a duck!

Still dear reader regardless of this climatic catastrophe I will soldier on as you must too.

Eat pizza, chew down on some cheesy whotsits and guzzle a fizzy or two.

After all that you won’t feel like doing much more than sleeping anyway.

Blessing#2416-Comatose Conditions

We had a very early start this morning. We were up and onto our business by 6:00 am.

See last Thursday the trash guys came real early and missed our house and many others.

The recycling peeps came at their regular time so that was taken but we were left with a trash can full of garbage and something else.

Some years ago when she was more than “méchant” my niece ate a hole in one of Ma’s favorite arm chairs.

Ma kept the defective piece in her bedroom with the hole hidden by a throw.

She’d bought it as a pair in China but now that we are moving she had decided it must go.

When it wasn’t picked up last week she has since been questioning her position.

So I said “Ma look at it like this, if they don’t get it this time it is a sign to say get it fixed”

Given that it is pouring outside it will be well washed.

Blessing#2415-Dumped Deal

Precious Peeps it’s me PITS your one and only perfect princess here to help you over the humpty.

I have high hopes of making it to a real palace sometime soon.

Her Majesty has been to Battersea and adopted Moley.

She chose the name because she thinks he looks like a mole.

I agree he is a little dodgy but couldn’t care less if he looked like Godzilla if he gets me a place in the palace I’m all in to tie the knot.

I can hear you from here saying he’s too young for a mature maiden like me but that’s not a bit of a problem for someone as fit and fabulous as myself.

I will expect you all to bow but no need to curtsy if you are over fifty and have dodgy knees.

Keep on worshipping me and I’ll speak to you at the weekend

Blessing#2414-Yoonger Men

What did you think of when you saw today’s number pop up?

Was it the July 4th fireworks or are you more of a musical buff who went straight to the overture?

Being the culture vulture of our family I thought you’d like to know a little more about why Tchaikovsky wrote the piece.

It was all to do with the successful defense of the Russian empire against the invasion of that fierce Frenchman Napoleon in 1812.

It wasn’t the history that inspired the maestro though it was the epic depiction of the events of that autumn written much later in Leo Tolstoys War and Peace.

Makes you wonder which author will write the epic about Vladimir Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin and who might compose the tune!!

Blessing#2413-Victorious