Patum Peperium is officially on a four day holiday celebrating our 16 years of feeding out of the same crib for life. I had hoped to get a post done to day telling you of some of the things Mr. P will be treated to this weekend but unfortunately, my time is not always my own, especially when there's a sick little one to attend to. Please don't anticipate that my better half will surprise me by showing up here at his own blog and writing a glowing tribute to me, his lesser half, I have to write those myself.
We, or more properly I, shall return on Monday educating you on hallmarks, silver whatnots and thingamijingys. I know the Catholic Boys For Art can't wait.
Mrs. P
I hope the little one gets better.
"Catholic Boys For Art" sounds like a NYC 1980s punk rock band that played at CBGBs.
Do you know any Episcopal or Methodist Boys For Art? I hear the National Council of Churches at Riverside- (that bastion of progressive wymin priestessess) they are very supportive of another group I don't know if you have heard of them called "Islamic Boys who Hate Art but Love AK-47s".
Posted by: Mandingo | September 14, 2006 at 12:33 PM
Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Peperium, on your 16th anniversary. I hope the two of you have a wonderful long weekend, recounting your many years of connubial bliss.
Posted by: Old Dominion Tory | September 14, 2006 at 12:51 PM
Thanks Old Dominion Tory. As soon as the kitchen floor has dried, I'm putting a batch of hermits in the oven for Mr. P's breakfast. Before children, we always spent our anniversary in Maine. We would get up very early and hike up Parkman Mountain and have a breakfast of fresh hermits and bottled water while watching Blue Hill and Penobscot Bay down below. When I met Mr. P he was carrying Parkman's book (a lovely cloth edition with ribbons for bookmarks) and I asked him, "What's that? The Bible?" He still asked me out anyway.
The little one is improving Mandingo. Thanks. Aren't Episcopal and Methodist Boys these days all about art?
Posted by: Mrs. Peperium | September 14, 2006 at 03:38 PM
Have a wonderful weekend anniversary celebration. Hopefully your little one is better. Are you taking the kids with you? Not good, not good at all. ha
Posted by: Debbie | September 14, 2006 at 04:04 PM
Hmmm, I don't know if they are about art these days or what they are into, God knows and God help us, I think they are back to their anti Americanism in the most insane ways - see link below - but I know in the 1980s they were very fond of folksy Latin American silk screen posters of sweaty Sandanistas and "No Nukes" prints they hung up in their offices of the local North-Eastern, say Boston or at Vassar, Hands of Cuba Coalition or something like "Gay Episcopal Chicano Pagan Agnostics for Choice Project" next to the photo of Rigoberta Menchu. Yeecchhh.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688738/posts
BTW my apologies to all the sane Presbyterian art luvvers.
Posted by: mandingo | September 14, 2006 at 04:16 PM
Hermits! My goodness, Mrs. Peperium, it has been a very long time since I have heard of that delightful New England treat. Your celebrations certainly will begin on an excellent note.
September is truly a magical month in New England and I bet it is enjoyable as well in Michigan.
Again, congratulations.
Cheers!
Posted by: Old Dominion Tory | September 14, 2006 at 04:41 PM
Congratulations indeed!
I thought is was called "Roman Catholic Boys for Art," but what would I know?
Posted by: Fiendish | September 14, 2006 at 05:00 PM
Fiendish, Mr. P is reading the book you recommended on Saratoga. Roman...Catholic...is there a difference when it comes to art?
Posted by: Mrs. Peperium | September 14, 2006 at 05:39 PM
If Mr. P finds "Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War" half as captivating as I did, I fear he will not be entirely good company for substantial chunks of the big anniversary weekend. Perhaps you can periodically hide the book somewhere in the crib.
Regarding the other topic, actually, Eastern Rite Catholics do have a different history (compared to Latin rie) as regards art. Although large majorities of Catholic men of all rites have, right from boyhood, shown a keen interest in the type of "Art" you are talking about.
Posted by: Fiendish | September 14, 2006 at 10:26 PM
Wider still and wider!
Shall thy bounds be set!
God who made thee mighty,
make thee mightier yet!!!!
Posted by: Andrew Cusack | September 15, 2006 at 12:27 AM
Happy Anniversary Mr & Mrs P!
You should see what Mrs C was wearing when I got home. And it's not even my anniversary. She must be very much into art...
or just very naughty.
Posted by: Card | September 15, 2006 at 07:25 AM