August 20, 2013
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Kee-rash! Trees Fall And A Dinner Is Delivered.
TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM
Another night I didn’t really sleep well until it was almost daylight and then I slept until noon. I didn’t, however, go back to bed like I did yesterday but stayed up and got a few things done. The Beast asked about Chewlee and I told him she was going to be dropped off by the school bus. He didn’t say another word but I guess that’s all he wanted to know. I found him and Dennis sitting on the front porch steps deep in conversation.
Later I found out that Diane was having a shit fit over Jack’s cutting down the trees on the property directly behind where Dennis and Di had planned on putting their house. Di wanted to buy that lot but Dennis dragged his feet and Jackie bought it out from under them. He immediately cut down a few trees and he plans on putting a shed or small barn on it to store his ATV plus his tractor/lawnmower and god knows what else will end up in there. But Diane wanted to be able to have the trees for the privacy.
Like any nutty psychiatrist, at first she went on and on about moving the house over to the lot on the other side of where the big barn is going up and Dennis was ready to wring her neck because it would require the septic field and tank be moved (plus the perk test be done on that lot) and then there is the water line and the gas line…well, you get the idea. The Beast and I, separately, suggested they just get some mature trees and have them planted since they would end up being cheaper plus they could put them where they wanted them.
Diane made some excellent gumbo made with ham steak chunks instead of shrimp or sausage (or all three). It had just the right amount of *heat* to it. Any more and it would have been inedible. Any less and it would have been bland, kind of. Her dessert, unfortunately, didn’t come out the way it should have. She used Almond Milk to make the vanilla pudding she used to make banana cream pie. Well, Almond Milk, as good as it tastes, is NOT in any way, shape or form MILK. What happened is it never *gelled* or *set up* as it should have so we made jokes about her serving us the *soup* last instead of first. Regardless, it was very tasty and we ate it…with spoons mostly.
Chewlee wasn’t here long. When her mother showed up, she said in a shocked voice, *You mean Mommy is here ALREADY???* Too funny! She told her mother they had to hurry so she wouldn’t miss much of her favorite cartoon show, Peppa Pig. It will be much the same tomorrow because the Princess doesn’t go back to work until Thursday.
Love you all and I hope your week hasn’t been all that bad. Be good and have fun.
