Booming Banter

Ma had to expend some more pent up passion yesterday by spending some more time stocking up.

This time on books.

A second hand book store in the tearoom town is closing and they were having a sale.

For $5 you got as many books as you could stuff into a plastic bag.

Of course Ma is gifted in this regard with all her experience of rummage sales.

Her bag was stuffed to the gills.

Even when she off loaded five for Dad to keep him sweet the bag still looked full.

She even got one for me too.

I quickly read it and gave it back to her to sell at the store.

It was really ancient. Published in 1947 but she found some older ones dating back to 1940.

Now all we can hope is that they sell so I can get some snacks.

Blessing##2285-Lots of Literature

You know when business is bad Ma has to comfort herself with thrifting.

So it was this week that she spent the time she’d ordinarily be washing dishes finding bargains at The Salvation Army’s store.

Now let me tell you what she found is a work of art. She even paid full price for it $7.99. Ma never pays full price!!!

It’s a gigantic Afghan blanket. Weighs exactly five pounds, that’s a lot of wool, is all hand done and never used.

Seriously the person who made this must have been crocheting for months. What patience and skill they had to make such a masterpiece.

You can only wonder why it ended up where it did.

Did no one love it?

Fortunately it’s found a good home now and Dad is grateful for the gift.

Like me it’s a lucky and very lovely rescue!

Blessing#2284-Rainbows

Precious Peeps it’s your very own Pitty Perfect here to propel you like a bob sleigh into a very white weekend.

We have more snow coming and it’s GREAT.

A tad torturous on the tootsies but it’s such fun to crunch through it and having a refreshing snack on it too.

I have been making love hearts for my beau Remington with my peepee.

Isn’t it fun the things you can find to do if you just put your mind to having fun.

Be like me and make your mark!

Blessing#2283-Shorthand

It’s still Baltic here but we’re blustering on.

Ma is determined that we shouldn’t let our steps slip.

I agree with her. It’s too early in the year to cave in and starts slobbing it.

She is reluctant though to go too far off the road so communication with other canines is limited.

Fortunately the fire hydrants are fairly strategically positioned.

Looks like more white water is on the way for the weekend.

May take up skiing!!

Blessing#2282-Snow Scapes

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

It’s perilously cold here so much so that if you stop for a minute when you’re out on your trot there is a chance you might freeze to the ground.

Granny has suggested making us sweaters but for once the stinking Gizz and I are agreed on something.

No thanks Gran.

We’d be the laughing stock of this neighborhood.

So we soldier on shivering if we don’t keep moving so that’s the only solution for us.

Make our moto yours too!

Shake that bootie babes!

Blessing#2281-Mushers

Years ago the Bro taught me how to sit up straight at table while he was having a nosh.

Yesterday while he was tucking into his Frosted Flakes I got a little tiger in my own tank.

I knew he’d give me some at the end of the brekkie but I was a tad hungry. The snow always gives me an appetite for life.

So I thought to myself let’s take this to a different dimension.

If cats can do it so can I!

Blessing#2280-Elevation

Yesterday Ma got the Bro to take down all the Christmas decor while she and Dad went to church and then got the groceries.

He did a real good job under my supervision of course and the niece stayed out of the way and chewed her Nyla as told her I nuke her if she didn’t.

Ma was so inspired by the clean up that she took to and put up the Chinese New Year gear as a quid pro quo.

All done before 1:00pm so after lunch a good siesta was warranted for all.

Dinner done we all watched the movie Pride and Prejudice again. It’s the version with Kiera Knightly as Elizabeth. Don’t ask who was Darcy but it wasn’t Colin Firth.

This time Ma said she really enjoyed it. Previously she hadn’t been hot on it as Colin was absent but upon reflection she concluded that ambience changes everything.

Blessing#2279-Reruns

Yesterday on our trot we saw something sad.

A perfect little red squirrel was lying in the middle of the road dead as a dodo.

It had its tiny eyes closed and looked just like it was sleeping. It was clearly not long gone as it was completely in tact.

The niece tried to get hold of it but Ma was firm and decided that if it was still in one piece on our return she’d give it a decent place to rest.

So good to her word Ma braced herself restrained the niece and grabbed the critter by its tail and placed it in the nearest yard.

We could have carried it home to ours but world war three may have ensued as to who owned it and Ma could certainly not have held it and us without shoulder dislocation.

Ironic then that when we got back in President Carters last journey was just beginning.

We know that he, like that squirrel has his eyes closed and is peacefully back with his maker.

Blessing#2278-At Rest

Ma isn’t hard to please.

Yesterday she was all thrilled because she realized on her way to work that the sat nav didn’t just say “work” for her destination but by some miracle switched to Booming Blessings.

This means her little business is pinned in Google maps with a fine big teapot symbol.

It was like she won the lottery.

I suppose if some tea lovers just happen to be passing by Marion Ohio it might entice them to stop in.

I just said that I wouldn’t mind a little trip there myself but she said it’s too cold for me to sit in the car for long.

Did she ever realize I’m her service dog she could bring me inside to keep her calm and warm!

Blessing#2277-Markers

Precious Peeps it’s your very own perfectly pretty Pitty here to give you a great big woof into the first weekend of the year.

Maybe you are on a health kick like granny or going green or something equally noble.

Since I cannot be improved upon I’m just being my usual wonderful self.

It makes life so much easier to live when everything you do is done with the utmost elegance.

Be like me or at least a little bit of a PIT!!

Blessing#2276-Poise