January 16, 2012

• Bits And Pieces....

   

  TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

  The Beast got a bit of a shock on Saturday.  He received an invitation to his 50th Graduation Reunion.  However, get this.  His actual last year of high school, he attended a school in Florida (and, yes, he graduated).  But every single invitation he has received his whole adult life has come from the high school he attended for every year EXCEPT his graduation year.  Go figure.  But, the truly strange part is this.....when they would have started doing their research and updating, we would have already left our home in Florida (last known address) to move here.  We were well past the forwarding time period for the post office.  We did NOT have a land line or directory assistance address.  Our cell phones were on the *do not call* list.  He does not keep in touch with anyone he went to high school with so where in the hell did they get our current address from?  Hmm?  Hmm?

  The Beast made some really great bean soup the other day.  In fact, it was good enough that even Chewlee ate some of it.  He also made a pot roast with.....ta da!  carrots from our garden.  I kid you not.  He had left them in because they were kind of late developing.  The weather was mild so what could it hurt?  The carrots were beautiful and just perfect.  But there is something about our putting carrots from our garden in with the pot roast that turned off Chewlee.  She normally will eat the carrots (not the meat) but she wanted no part of these.  She had seen them when the Beast brought them in.  She might actually have seen him pick them out of the garden.  But they were NOT the carrots SHE wanted to eat.  Nope...not a single bite passed through those little lips of hers.   

  I know it's not the fact that Baron poops on the ground because our garden was done up in raised boxes.  The dog does NOT jump up onto them to *do his business*.  In fact, when the Beast goes around the yard with the shovel to collect and relocate THAT, Chewlee will NOT go near the area he puts it all.  Chewlee and the Beast both have an aversion to adding any of it to the compost but that doesn't bother me at all.  It's a choice, is all.

  The Beast picked me up some of the KFC hot wings on his way home after the meeting on Sunday.  I was so tickled.  Even Chewlee eats those and she ate a couple of them.  I managed to save a couple more and that will more than likely be my dinner tomorrow (today) since I doubt I will want much more after coming home from the wound center.  He even got me a whole jalapeno pepper and I saved that.  A glass of milk, the pepper and my remaining five or six wings will do me just nicely.  If I want more, I'll just add come cottage cheese.

  The goofy Princess calls me from her work around 7pm tonight (Sunday night) and you won't guess what the first words out of her mouth were?  *Grandma, could you watch Chewlee for me tomorrow from about 10 until 4 or 4:40pm?  My boss asked me if I could work.....*  I interrupted her and said, *No, I can't actually, dear.  Have you forgotten?* at the same time that she stopped herself and said, *OH!  I forgot about the doctor's appointment at the Wound Center....*.  We both laughed and I heard her telling her boss what was up as she disconnected.  At least this is a time when she can KEEP her day off for a change.  Her boss thinks nothing of having her come in to work on days she really needs to be able to get her washing done or her grocery shopping.  I mean, *C'mon woman!  This gal is working over 40 hours a week.  She is going full-time to college and at a more distant campus so more time lost in travel.  She also has to do all the other things mothers do....clean, cook, wash, shop....I know she has more energy than I do but who doesn't?    There ARE limits!

  Oh well, I went to bed early tonight because I really was tired.  I think I might have surprised the Beast even.  The dog woke me up once because he was snoring so loud so I pushed my foot out from under the blanket and used it to shake and wake him.  A couple hours later, I woke up, got up and cleaned my boo-boo's up and decided to do this before I head back to catch a little more sleep. 

  Love you all.  It's going to be almost 60 here today (and higher tomorrow) plus sunny so it will be a nice day all round.  Be good.  Be careful.  Smile a lot. 
  

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