News from the Putty Anals

We call this the Anals, not the Annals because putties are anal. They’re always either farting, licking their behinds, or in the litter boxes going #2. Welcome to Putties for Pagans 2! We’re so glad you could make it! Do check out your other Putties for Pagans groups on other networks because there WILL be other groups on other networks. Tegwedd will be starting new groups of this franchise wherever she can. But not on PaganSpace.net and WiccanTogether because they’ve gone all fascist on us. You have to get your groups approved and they haven’t been approving groups lately so we’ll go there only to post on groups already there, not adding more groups. Our possibilities have narrowed somewhat. Tegwedd can’t go on either BlessedBeUK or Avalon because these 2 networks were the first to go fascist. It’s not a pretty sight when Pagan sites go fascist.

The putties have been extremely active this past summer. Whenever Tegwedd goes out to hang up the wash, or to take it down after it’s dry, Dr. Livingston I. (the I stands for Isis) Presume aka Princess Henrietta the Navigator wants to “help” She becomes extremely approachable and affectionate. Naturally Tegwedd has to stop what she’s doing and scritch her. It’s in the union rules. Vampirella is very funny and affectionate. That’s why we think she must’ve belonged to a family, because she is so affectionate, and when she came in, she had a flea collar on. She craves and expects human affection and attention. Of course we give it to her. She is so pretty, short white fur with beige accents. We think she’s another one of Little Boy’s progeny because she has 6 toes on each front paw. The folks at the SPCA thought she was pretty too when Tegwedd and Walt took her there to get spayed. She was very good about going into the cat carrier. She doesn’t walk; she stalks. Her eyes are blue during the day but red at night. She’s the great white huntress. She goes after butterflies and other bugs in the grass.

Who’d a thunk that Pyewacket was a secret member of the Putty IRA? Pyewacket has a game she plays; where she will cry at the door, supposedly to come in, then back away when one of us opens it to let her in. We have to coax her in. She cries to be petted, then walks away when you try to pet her. Stephen calls the crying at the door and crying to be petted the crying game which was a movie about the IRA. This could also be what the crossed paws are about. Her secret IRA name is Pyewacket O’Leary. When she isn’t plotting the demise of a country, she plays with Tegwedd’s magickal necklaces. This action is a blind to conceal her nefarious activities as secret leader of the Putty IRA.

A few days ago a stupid mouse found its way inside the house. We say stupid because that mouse had to have been able to smell that there are 8 putties living here. Putty Bear and Frakki tag teamed to catch it. They took turns grabbing it in their mouths, but that.mouse wouldn’t die. It got lost for awhile under the sofa where Tegwedd was sitting, but the tag team putties soon caught it again. Then when they lost interest in it, Stephen swept it into the dustpan, and took it to the big garbage bin outside. The mouse that wouldn’t die dropped to the bottom of the garbage bin, where it stayed, eating garbage until it either died of its injuries, or the garbage collectors picked up the garbage. Now it’s under a pile of garbage in a landfill somewhere.

Tabitha is 6 months old and funny. She barks (actually it’s more like a squeak) when you hold something above her head like a treat, her brush, or just your fingers. She squeaks most of the time, but very often, she’ll open her mouth and no sound comes out. We call it the silent miaow after the book of the same name. Right now Vampirella is playing with a dead piece of weed eater line that Tegwedd is holding with her right hand while she write with her left. All she has to do is move it a little, and Vampirella bats it around with her paws, first the right one, then the left. Suddenly Vampirella abandons it in favor of a ball, and Frakki and Tabitha have discovered the line and bat it about.

The putties teach each other things, not only behavior, but also classifying of what is a putty toy, and what isn’t. Pyewacket and Vampirella have an intense rivalry going. They’re each jealous of the other because they’re both cute. Vampirella is about 1 ½ times Pyewacket’s size, but Pyewacket isn’t intimidated in the slightest. For an adult female, Pyewacket is small, having reached her full size about a year ago. At least she’s filling out. You used to be able to feel the vertebrae on her spine, but she has flesh covering that now. She can more than hold her own in a fight with another putty. She’s a little spitfire. She also likes to bite noses. All the putties like to get into weird poses and imitate rugs. Pyewacket likes to knead people. Stephen gave her the epithet “accordion putty” because of the cute noises she makes when you gently squeeze her.

There’s a certain putty toy that Stephen, with his glaucoma” thinks is a severed Santa’s head, when in reality it’s a small stuffed Santa’s boot or Xmas stocking, Tabitha loves that toy. She bats it around, which makes it moves, which makes it alive and attractive to Tabitha. Night time lockdown is a tense time for all because they have to come in and stay in all night. It’s for their own safety and well-being but they don’t realize that, silly putties that they are, and make us call them and run around in the dark, trying to get them inside. As is almost everything for them, this is a game, and great fun. The Japanese aristocrats would understand this. At least they would have understood it during the period we round eyes like to call the Middle Ages and Renaissance. They liked to say things like “He is playing at playing music.” or “She is playing at drawing.” Tegwedd learned this about 35 years ago when she read “Shogun. Putties also like to play a game called escape. If they sense a human is going to either go outside, or come in, they dash through the open door into the great outdoors. Then they expect you the human to go around in the dark and chase them while they evade you. It can last for hours. Stephen has a tendency to tire of this game in 10 minutes. There the putties are, snug as bugs in rugs, in their small dark cozy hiding places, and Stephen is indoors, trying to catch his breath, going in and out with the inhaler, and then taking a treatment with the nebulizer.

Tell us your putty stories. The Putty Anals will continue when we do our latest installment of Magickal Familiars and their Powers.

Our friend Caitlin ni Manannan has people bringing her wood from when they prune their trees in their yards. And we are shortly going to be making Rune and Ogham sets. So if you’re local, bring us your branches. They should be at least the thickness of your thumb.

All you hard-workin’ Pagans should stand solidly with labor and against the Tea Party. As James Hoffa Jr. said, “Recall those sons of bitches! Go to your ballot boxes and vote them out.” The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, don’t, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.

Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Coming soon--prints of the Lady and the Tiger by Lizet. Rune and Ogham sets worked by Stephen. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.

We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 10 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.