This Just In …

My mom just called to share the latest family news and some funny tidbits emerged when she asked me to, “Guess what?”

- My nephew is dating a goat tyer on his college’s rodeo team and wants to go to Las Vegas with her for spring break. The family has already checked out her profile on the school’s rodeo page. Her favorite food is sushi.

- My other nephew’s Kia was stolen this week (possibly because he left spare keys and his ipod in the car) and at age 24 his new choice of car is …. drumroll please … a station wagon. Why does he want this car? “To haul his stuff around.”

The new scratching post

- Despite his constant complaining over the cost of having pets, my father made the cats a new scratching post, which my mother described as, “a beauty” and “it’s like the twin towers.” Construction materials included: an old fence post, a garbage can lid, carpet remnants, a rope, and the metal lid off of a candy jar.

- My mother made the mistake of pointing out miniature chickens for sale to my father when they visited the hardware store in town. Now he wants to buy them to add to his current flock. My mother is opposed to the acquisition.

To quote Dave Barry, “I can’t make this stuff up. I just can’t.”