My Mind's Eye: 7/1/18

Today we join Two SPOILED CAT

Angel Sammy and Teddy for their poetic pictorial poem.

Here is today's photo prompt

Simpler times: Late 50's

TVees were new and so small.

You had to nearly sit on top of them for any view.

A postage stamp was taller.

Come Friday Daddy got home early

He bellowed girlies get in the car.

Off the the drive-in movies we went, it wasn't far.

No matter where you parked your view

was panoramic and fun was contagious from car to car.

You had your own speaker right there on the window.

Best of all was a trip to the concession stand

for a bottle Pepsi,it was ice cold, popcorn and

hot dogs all on a tray to go.

Life was simpler by far....watching movies from your car.

OMCs do I have a Bawhahahahahahahahaha for you. It involves farm implements (at the end of this post we attached a post from 2015 regarding the invention of farm implements for household task)**!!

First this true story happened on a Wednesday, Dad's train brain day so he was not home.

June 13, while Mom was backing down our veryyyyyyyyyyyyy looooooooooooooong drive.

she saw something odd at the bottom of the driveway. (Gracie Highlander has a backup camera). She backed down slowly. She parked the car in front of the house and cautiously walked toward said oddity. OMCS in heaven above it was a vole...dead as a door nail. It was not grossly ooozzzzing blood so she was purrty sure she didn't hit it. Trudy the traveling Tortie cat aka T4 was the prime suspect. Mom saw T4 stalking something in our back yard earlier. Getting up deaded animals is a DAD job...mom was gonna leave it for dad; however, the more she thought about it she started worrying T4 would be back for a meal. Worst case scenario T4 might eat it on our driveway making it look like a Crime Scene.

Mom goes to the garden shed to get a shovel, goes in the house for a trash bag, AND ARE YOU SITTING DOWN! She also got a can of Lysol that kills 99.9% of bacteria. She cautiously, in case the vole had any life left in it, gets the vole in the shovel.

She drops it in the trash bag then...................she sprayed Dad's edging shovel with 1/2 can of Lysol....she wanted to be sure he didn't get any vole bacteria should he touch it. Then she put it back into the shed....and guess what the shed smells like Lysol. She did remember to tell Dad about the Lysol(he hates the smell of Lysol) at which time after he finished LOLing he said thanks for being sure the shovel was 99.9% free of bacteria.

The end
I didn't witness this fiasco but this is what my cat's eye saw when I heard about it

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Tuesday Tale: They say Necessity is the .....

Mother of invention

FYI this TRUE TALE is proof positive.

I promise it is the last post I'll show of snow

BUT trust me it is gonna tickle your funny bone.

Often when the peeps leave I take up my sentry post from the guest bed this window
looks out onto the driveway.

During the last few weeks of February we had sleet, snow,

ice and freezing temperatures all with in a few days of each other. All this made our
driveway and front yard nearly impassable!!!

That is unless you are very clever...and my peeps are.

This picture shows very little white stuff but what you see is

ice and it is solid. Mom and Dad needed to go to buy groceries...

they had to get to Gracie at the bottom of the driveway.

But they can't ice skate so they did the next best thing

they used their noggins to think of a safe way down

~~Dad had already fallen on the ice earlier.~~

They used a pitch fork and a golf umbrella as their anchors to walk down

through the ice to the grass. Before they left

Mom thought to herself... how will we get the groceries back up to the

porch.

Easy peasy...they took to laundry baskets and two bungee cords

to the car when they left.

When they got back home with the groceries they loaded the

groceries in the baskets and pulled them up the hill with the

bungee cords in one hand and the pitchfork and the golf umbrella in the

other hand

Nobody fell...they got the groceries in the house

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We are not posting tomorrow, hopefully this Tuesday Tale
will keep you entertained until our Thoroughly Poetic Pictorial Thursday Post.
We will be visiting everyone.
Have a safe 4th and all your 4 leggers stay inside.
Madi your bfff and her crazy pants Mom