ANOTHER BITE

Lovely Tuesday to everyone!

I’m having such a nice one that I decided to pop in and post ANOTHER BITE — on a day when I’ve taken quite a few bites myself. First off, I probably owe my digestive system an apology for everything I’ve put it through today. It wasn’t the quantity, but the variety — wide and wild. Still, it’s been a fun day… if we don’t count the number of unwanted, inappropriate jokes I had to endure from a certain senior colleague.

I heard our folks in the diaspora really went all out for Independence Day — especially those in New York. Good for them! I’d probably have the same enthusiasm too if I weren’t here. It’s a bit like how we are with old classmates: deep down, we don’t even like each other that much, but on that one random occasion when we bump into each other in public, we act like lifelong besties. The warmth fades the moment we’re four feet apart.

Kind of like how parents seem to love the child who’s far away more than the one who’s always around — or how my bunbun showers me with extra love in the mornings and when I return home late at night.

In other news, it seems I’ve inspired half the neighbourhood to start planting things. I genuinely wish them well — mostly because that means fewer people will be sneaking veggies from my garden in the future. Speaking of garden, the native variety land fowls killed one of my pepper plants yesterday. I have a little fence around them but that’s only to discourage them, it can’t prevent them truly from flying over and getting in. Now these birds belong to someone else but they come into my yard because apparently that’s where the food is. They’ve cost a lot of damage and sometimes I have enough mean energy to wish I was living that old country life where I can shoot wild animals coming into MY PROPERTY making reference to Banjo the Villain in Powerpuff girls. I feel like my siblings specifically the one before and the one after me understand my cartoon references. Niece 1 and 2 are catching up but they still have a lot of source material to cover.

Maybe I drank a bit of truth serum today… or maybe it’s just Talk Tuesday. Either way, I’ve shared too much already. Time to go find my bunbun — I haven’t seen him since I got back.

Bye!