mr pesky had a birthday

Jul 28, 2021

I mentioned earlier that Carl had back surgery. He’s recovering just fine and yesterday, I took him to get his stitches removed. He’s now been cleared to drive and it will probably take a big ole’ dip from my inheritance just to pay for gas. 🙄 

Some don’t feel the need to go, go, go. Like me — I don’t just get a hankerin’ to get in the car and drive around. Others — like the peskies — dream of stuff they simply have to go out to buy. Like they can’t wait 15-minutes to get a bar of soap because they only have 10 stored in the garage. I’m not joking, you guys. The next day, they’ll be “almost out” of toothpicks — or something equally as important.

Our phone conversations over the past couple weeks have followed the exact same pattern:

Me: What’s going on?
Mr. Pesky: Same thing that went on yesterday. (Said in the most disgusted tone possible.)
Momma Pesky: And the same thing that went on the day before. (Obviously repulsed tone loudly uttered following the response of Mr. Pesky.)

During that almost 3-week period of recuperation from surgery, Carl also turned another year older. He asked that his age not be disclosed, and of course, I’ll honor that request.

happy 72 Carl

TIL (Today I Learned): The rhyme you probably sang as a kid, “Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush,” was really a tune coined by female inmates of Wakefield Prison in England. That was their regimen for daily exercise and the bush is still on the grounds of Wakefield.