The Meat Trilogy

‪Seeing an ad on TV for ham on sale, it made me think that in our family there was a Meat Trilogy. Thanksgiving was turkey, Christmas was roast beef, and Easter was ham.

So go ahead and have ham at Christmas if you want. I won’t judge you. But I have my preferences.‬

The Hidden

“Where IS the TV remote?” Paul asked, looking around.

The cat shifted, then decided the slight discomfort was worth the amusement value of keeping it concealed by lying on it a little longer.

On the tip of your mind

‪It’s a peculiar and agreeable sensation when something that’s been on the tip of your mind for several days finally jumps to the fore, like a leaf on a branch that has chosen this moment to float into your waiting hand.‬

Stay-at-home Congressional representative?

There’s a radio ad running to the effect of “There [name] goes again – jetting off to Washington, leaving the rest of us behind.”

Uh… isn’t going to Washington kind of IN the Congressional representative job description? I mean, that’s where they meet, right?

Weather Hype

On the news, they keep talking about “rain measured in feet, not inches!”

If we get an inch of rain, we can do the same thing. “We got 1/12th foot of rain!”

Done. Rain measured in feet, not inches. Two can play at that game.

Missing monsters

I saw a headline about someone ‘reading the riot act’ to missing ministers.

Which I read as missing monsters.

I like my version better.

Me to monsters: WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? I’VE BEEN WORRIED SICK ABOUT YOU! YOU’RE ALL GROUNDED.

Not terrible

The local weathercaster referred to this weekend as “not terrible” – two days of highs of 81° and a 20% chance of showers or scattered showers.

I hope she was being ironic. I’ll take that “not terrible” through the end of October, please. Then you can have your falling leaves and pumpkin spice whatever.