Tattle Tale Tuesday

We had lots of rain today. And lots of thunder and lightning. So there was lots of sleeping.



In fact, mom woke up to a thunderstorm at 6:40 am. She wasn't quite expecting that.




I am going to Tattle the answers to all the questions people have asked mom, Lucky or me. Then I will tell you something funny about Lucky.

1) Howard Pee Pugpants wanted to know if Lucky gets to eat cookies in bed. I assume by bed you mean PlusOne's bed, Howard, and the answer to that is NO. Mom does not let us eat our treats in the sleeping beds. No crumbs allowed, she says.

2) Emmitt wanted to know if mom's Asian quilt is done yet. The answer is no. Mom has to put the backing on it. She has something else she has to finish first, before she can tie that quilt.

3) Manicote asked about the police, because mom made a comment about the camera still being in police custody. The full story is here, but the short story is that we were broken into the week before Christmas and the camera was stolen. The police recovered almost 95% of the things stolen, but until the defendants either plead guilty (2 of them did) or go to trial (2 of them won't plead) mom can't get her things back. Including her engagement ring.

4) Frances Louise wanted to know how I came to be with mom, and did mom ever own any other kind of dog. Mom has owned only pugs. We are the second set of two pugs mom has had. The story of us begins here and goes on for three days. Here is the short version.

The pugs who came before, Muffie and Bridget were old and after Bridget went to the Bridge (at 15-1/2 yrs old) in August of 2003, mom was depressed and found Lucky through memere. Lucky was a sweet puggy puppy, but mom soon realized that a 16 year old pug was no fit companion for a puppy, so that's when I joined the family, to be Lucky's sister and playmate.

5)Ladypug Mugs asked the next question about karate. Mr. Karate is mom's nephew. Mom's older sister's son. Mom's older sister is Darling Millie's mom. Memere (mom's mom) is Studio Jeanne. Mr. Karate started his karate training around 13 years old. PlusOne started when he was 4-1/2 yrs old. When asked by the Studio Owner why he wanted to take karate, PlusOne said he wanted to be just like Mr. Karate. The Studio Owner was satisfied with that and PlusOne joined the classes. (PlusOne is now 11 yrs old.)

Mom started a year and a half later, on a Mother's Day promotion. (Free karate for moms for a month.) Mom had always wanted to do karate, ever since she was 16 years old. But when she started a trial period, she smashed her knee into the metal edge of a cement step and that ended that. (Among other things.) They all do Kenpo Karate, in the tradition of Ed Parker.

Mom thinks it's really cool that Rachel's (LadyPug Mug) mom trained with Chuck Norris. When she heard that, mom told her instructor. He was as curious as mom as to how that turned out. Was Chuck a good teacher and all the scoop, because the Studio Owner often talks about Chuck Norris and how he says as long as you learned something then you didn't really fail. (e.g. tournaments, fights, etc) Of course, the Chuck Norris jokes - tears curing blindness, etc - are all the rage at the studio.

And almost lastly, someone, (I am sorry, forgot who) asked if I sang, and I said no, I didn't sing. But I changed my mind and howled a storm for mom this morning, so she says she will have to see if she can videotape it and show it to all of you. Of course, since we have the old camera, it will be a really short video.

And lastly, here's the dirt on Lucky. Whenever she sleeps with us, she wakes mom up in the morning by licking her face. Now, Lucky is very methodical about this. She starts at the eye socket, goes down the nose, across the cheek, up the nose (unless mom gets her finger up it first) across her chin and then over to the ear where she starts chewing on mom's hair. But only if mom's had a perm. (Which she just did.) So of course, Lucky started chewing on the hair. Now, Lucky DOES NOT do this to PlusOne, just mom. And only when she sleeps in bed with us all night. Isn't that funny?