Your Weekly Antics, See Ya Abe Edition...11/14/25

Well kids, I hope you all survived the time change, the full moon, the Northern Lights, the drop in temperatures, the flurries - yes flurries, leaf removal, the fact that it's now dark before 5pm, and everything and anything else that could be presenting you with any type of annoyance interfering with your days. Embrace it people, we can't change everything. Here's what I've got...

1. I got a text this week from our local army recruiter looking for my niece. Not my child, but my niece. I may or may not have accidentally enlisted her…sorry Kiley. Thank you for your “pending” service. Exhibit 1

2. Check out this article. I’ve seen this several times before, but seeing as it came up again, I figured I’d pass it along…in Australia, three nuns, 88 year old Sister Bernadette, 86 year old Sister Regina, and 82 year old sister Rita were sick of being pushed around and put their feet down. The three report that in December 2023, they were taken against their will from the convent they had dedicated almost all their lives to. The convent had been taken over by the Archdiocese of Salzburg and the Reichersberg Abbey, an Augustinian monastery. The community officially came to a close in December 2024, but the nuns were granted lifelong residence as long as their health and mental capacity remained intact. However, in December 2023 that promise was broken, the nuns were packed up and the three were transferred to a catholic nursing home, much to their dissatisfaction. By September 2024, the three had had enough. They devised a plan, left the nursing home and broke back into their former convent, defying church orders, deciding they were going to live out their vows on their own terms. They even have their own Instagram page. Moral of the story…don’t break promises and mess with God’s lifelong humble servants – they’re not going to put up with it.

https://nypost.com/2025/11/08/world-news/three-nuns-in-their-80s-who-have-an-ig-account-escaped-their-nursing-home-to-return-to-convent/#:~:text=Austrian%20nuns%20escape%20nursing%20home,AFP%20via%20Getty%20Images

3. Quote of the week…"get yourself together so you don’t turn your feelings into felonies…” ~ Tim 11/12/25

4. We have another concern to ponder over when preparing for our Thanksgiving day feasts this year. We are under threat from a Turkey shortage. Apparently, due to disease and whatever else is going on with our feathered non-friends, turkey numbers are down, turkeys available to eat are low, and with that the cost of the main course of your meal goes up. You’ve all heard me complain about the Turkeys who have taken over the streets of the Woo, so here’s a simple solution. Run em down, pack em up, and viola, dinner is served. Exhibit 2, what the store bought turkeys look like before making their way to our plates...

5. It recently came to my attention that the turkeys we see on the sides of the road and in our neighborhoods are not actually the turkey’s we eat. With that said, I’d like to know what their purpose is and perhaps, if we started eating them, the numbers would dwindle, and that could mean less of these feathered beasts to harass us and clog our roadways. But that’s just me, tomato, tomatah…

6. Of course you know I needed more information on this whole turkey thing…not the shortage and the rising costs of our main meal, but of why we supposedly can’t or shouldn’t eat these wild beasts that cross the road, impeding my progress when running out for coffee…according to Google, where we get all our tried and true information, if you wanted to, you could take a gander at a turkey of the Woo, as they are direct descendants of the turkey eaten at our country’s first Thanksgiving feast...(no, I did not need Google to tell me this…get it together, I’m smarter than that…) I would suggest should you take a gander at that option, you find yourself a turkey out towards Barre or Oakham, and avoid the hood turkey’s of Main South. Again, just my personal and humble opinion on the matter. Also, apparently there are rules surrounding bagging yourself a wild turkey. We don’t like rules here, but here’s a link to you rule followers out there in the event you decide this is the way you’d like to go to secure your turkey dinner…Exhibit 3, Turkeys of The Woo.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/wild-turkey-hunting-regulations#:~:text=sunrise/sunset%20table.-,Required%20licenses%2C%20permits%2C%20and%20safety%20sticker,Safety%20sticker*

7. As if how we plan to supply our Turkey day guests with their main course isn’t enough to worry about, check this out…you heard it here first folks, unless of course you heard it on the news…our cranberry crops may also be under attack, we just haven’t heard about it yet…without The Antics you may not have heard about this until the week of Thanksgiving when you’re all out there scurrying around at the grocery stores gathering the offerings you serve up for your traditional holiday meal. No one has said this directly, we at The Antics are just speculating, because you know how the news is. In Plymouth MA last week, that’s right, the center and originator of the Thanksgiving day feast, had an issue all their own. A giant blade detached from a wind turbine, plummeting into a nearby cranberry bog. So, when you can’t find your cranberries to make your cranberry sauce, blame that – that’s the culprit.  

https://www.wcvb.com/article/wind-turbine-blade-bog-plymouth-investigation/69424587#:~:text=PLYMOUTH%2C%20Mass.%20%E2%80%94&text=the%20Bay%20Road.-,Firefighters%20found%20the%20detached%20blade%20several%20hundred%20feet%20away%20from,immediately%20after%20the%20blade%20detached.

8. In the event you find yourselves in the conundrum of not being able to find cranberry sauce, give Sue Miller a call. She’s been stocking up and can meet all your cranberry sauce needs.

9.  Another forefather was messed with this week…Abraham Lincoln. Poor guy gets his face put on a penny in 1910 for all eternity, and eternity stopped Wednesday. Wednesday November 12^th, after 232 years, the last penny was minted. In 2010, a Union Shield was added to the flip side of the coin symbolizing Lincoln's dedication to the preservation of the integrity of the United States…kind of ironic that the penny gets pulled when now more than ever, we could use this reminder, but what the hell do I know…

10.  It was costing 4 cents to produce each penny. I am no mathematician, but I’m thinking that’s not super efficient, and I’m wondering how long that deficit was going on before the penny people decided to pull the plug on their penny making operation. Don’t worry though kids, the U.S. Treasury isn’t going to be in the red and go under because of the penny and their 4 cent deficit per coin…the last five pennies minted were stamped with a special “omega” mark, and will not be circulated, but instead will be auctioned off, and I’m sure the proceeds will go right back to the U.S. Treasury. Of course it will.

And last but not least, have a great weekend!