P is for Putz
It is a known fact. Putzes are no longer clutzes. Look around. Retirees and baby boomers happily putz along the highway on holiday and wear knobby-knee shorts and floppy sandals.
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Crafting aficionados putz about, making this and that out of crooked driftwood, old wool, and recycled soup cans. Gardeners putz and grow weird broccoli, Tiger lilies, stiff-necked garlic, and lumpy gourds. They also poke cautiously at vegetables that change colour when cooked.
Even their sunflowers are strange.
Inventors may be the best putzes by default, inventing new stuff out of old bicycle wheels to happily putz with, generating free electricity from cabbages and hiding snacks behind toolboxes in secret workshops.
That's a whole lot of putzing if you ask me. See how popular putzing has become? It is now more popular than naked ice climbing or accordion-playing in the deep end of the swimming pool.
Join the putzing revolution. The pandemic global shift to smart putzing is a historical event, almost as exciting as tectonic crustal shifts and stopping volcanic popcorn kaflooies.
The most skilled putzes are adept at making minute, minimal and incremental putzic adjustments worthy of fine art. Serious putzing, after all, means twiddling, fiddling, kaboodling around, fine-tuning, and playing with the good to make it better.
The curious neophyte may mistakenly hypothesize that packaged instructions provide the the same benefits as traditional old-fashioned putzing. At Incoming Bytes we are convinced that no automatic system or instructions can equal the precision adjustments made by a professional old putz.
Clever readers of Incoming Bytes should insist upon clear instruction in the fine art of putzing from their elected putz mentors. After all, if you're going to be a putz, you may as well get it right.
Is that incoming I hear?
puh, puh, puh, stop putzing around on us already, Raymond!
ReplyDeleteHi, MJ, we love to putz about. Putzing around is directional, ie. circular, and we get to do it all over again. ":) ~R
DeleteI suppose you've got a point, R. I was putzing on Phase 2 of my chunky pink yarn blanket for letter P...and it was so much fun. Have to admit, this A - Z Challenge has me putzing in a few crochet directions I never quite expected...having a great time though and hope you everyone else is too. Some of these blog putzers I've discovered through this Challenge are really good!
Deleteaha! so glad there is a name for what I do!
ReplyDeletebest,
MOV
MOV, you got it! Fun eh? A highly skilled putzer you are too! ":)
DeleteWow, is that what I've been doing all day? Learn something new every day! :-)
ReplyDeleteGlory, you're busted...hahaha! Putzing, that's it! ":) ~R
DeleteOh wow! If you aren't a putzer you haven't lived the good life...No other way to be. Putzing to songs and whistling, putzing on rainy days, putzing when it's cold outside, putzing just because...Right on VK
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly right, Vk...it's the only way to live. Putz around and enjoy doing what you do best! Whistling, singing, diddling and putzing, not necessarily in that order....":) !R
DeleteI take it, Raymond, you are using the Yiddish definition of putz which means to make a fool of oneself. In that I am an expert; as opposed to the German definition of the verb "putzen" which means "to clean." When it comes to cleaning, my skills in that are sorely lacking :) Besides, I hate to clean, it's so boring, and no matter how many times the dishes are washed or the tables dusted, they have to be cleaned again and again and again, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Cleaning is a thankless job.
ReplyDeleteThanks for an entertaining read. More like this, please.
Katley, that's the secret, there isn't really a definition specifically used, if you like diddling around, playing the harmonica, singing in the rain, making stuff, cleaning, no matter what you do, as long as you do it in a non-directional manner and enjoy doing it, you're an accomplished putzing person. Cleaning is a thankless job isn't it, that's why you're supposed to stop in the middle of it and trim the flowers, write a note, look at picture albums, feed the canaries, look at old shoes, or whatever makes you the happiest...and you'll feel like a genuinely happy putz. The Yiddish definition may be closer, 'we do as we like when we like because it's fun to do it and it's entertaining and it's enjoyable' no matter what else has to be done....even cleaning! ":)) Thanks for bringing up the problem of 'definition', I actually was going to put it into the text and then decided against it. Neither definition really works perfectly, but they don't have to either...not in MY putzing around. ":)) !R
DeleteSounds good to me. I think you are right. NO instructions.
ReplyDeletehi Lorre, welcome to IncomingBytes! Nice to see you! We don't need any instructions to putz. We already know how. We're good at putzing along! ":)) ~R
DeleteI think Raymond, thats what I will do today, When I have finished here I may go and see how my broccoli is growing? Then who knows I may get out my pastels and draw, or, I could go bake another loaf of better still I might make myself a cuppa with a piece of that Ginger cake I baked yesterday. Arrgh Putzing around is the Life isn’t it just!.. Sue
ReplyDeleteSue, that is exactly what a Dreamwalker is supposed to do, walk around and enjoy doing stuff! Ginger cake sounds good! It's the life we all dream of, so check out that broccoli and sketch a few pictures, watch the seeds sprout..and dream! ":) ~R
DeleteYou only read the instructions if you have more than three parts left over. And no, bolts, washers and nuts do not count in the leftover parts department.
ReplyDeleteRed
A Professional Putz
Red, that is TOO funny. A professional Putz...I LOVE it! I've never had anyone admit being a professional Putz before. That is a first!
DeleteI rebuilt a 350 Chevy truck motor, right down to the pistons, wrist pins, hydraulic lifters and all. I had a half dozen parts left over and it ran perfectly. AND got better gas mileage. I have no idea why...":)) Instructions are only good if you understand them. That lets me out, I'm "instruction challenged", and don't ask me to assembly anything reading instructions, it's pretty much impossible, I find 'instructions' annoying as anything can get...haha! ":) ~R