Puttie Pie

The funniest things happen with animals. This story happens to be about some kitties across the street instead of our pups for a change. Tim and Michele are another MMS couple who live across the street from us. It's a wonderful blessing to have them so close. They care so well for our house and dogs when we travel and likewise, we look after their house and kitties when they travel. It's a match made in heaven for us all!

Another advantage is that we can host visitors together, which is what we did recently when we had a family visiting from Scotland. This time we met at Tim and Michele's house for dinner. I had "dessert duty" and baked a peaches and cream pie and also made a peanut butter pie. I have a pie basket which makes carrying the pies easy so I took it with the pies in for dinner. When we arrived I was greeted by 3 loving kitties, Frankie, Herbie and Lucy. Herbie and Lucy are getting big but are still very much curious little kittens. Knowing that, I placed the pie basket on the counter leaving the towel draped over it to protect it as we ate dinner. Michele put the peanut butter pie in the fridge. We had a delightful dinner with our friends from Scotland and were ready for the pie for dessert. Yum!

That's when Michele came in and sheepishly announced there had been a "pie incident". Either Herbie or Lucy the kitten thought the basket, complete with snugly towel, would be a very nice place to take a nap! Michele brought in the pie, looking not quite the way it had when I brought it. We all laughed like crazy people. While we were happily eating our dinner in the other room, One of the two kittens had stepped in the pie basket, on top of the towel and tromped all around to get comfy, leaving craters in the pie underneath! It was a nice soft bed and even still slightly warm from the oven! Ha!

Missionaries that we all are, we still ate the pie! The heavy towel had been totally covering the pie the whole time so the pie looked pretty bad but still tasted quite good. So, we had "putty pie." We may never call it peaches and cream pie again! :o) Ah, life with the animals we love....