Good morning Cape Breton.Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home.
So I guess this is new for the Big Guy. All his previous dogs were NOT allowed on his furniture. Tonya says that he's getting soft in his old days.
So the Big Guy has bought this video game for his XBox. He purchased it used, but that doesn't both him too much. He thought he would like it, but then seen some video's of how it plays. So then he thought, perhaps he wouldn't like it too much. Well he has changed his mind. He doesn't mind it too much at all. Now, he still thinks that Skyrim and Fallout are MUCH better, but he doesn't mind this game at all.
Oh and I don't get to play his XBox at all. Not even a little bit. When he's playing, I just go lay down. I may as well, as he is in the "zone" and doesn't even pay attention to Tonya.
Now that's funny. Tonya will often be on Facebook, while the Big Guy is playing his XBox. She will see something that she thinks is funny, or something that she believes he should see RIGHT NOW! She will try to get his attention. Of course, he doesn't really care, but he will say things like, "oh, wow", or "cool". Meanwhile, he hasn't even moved his head to look at what she is looking at.
She has caught him more than once pulling this stunt. Then she gets upset with him.
But to be fair, he doesn't always try to get Tonya to look at his XBox game when he is playing it.
I know that he has several games that they could play together. Like Monopoly, or Backgammon, but she doesn't want to play. He can get pretty frustrated with this and he would like her to enjoy the XBox as much as he does.
But I guess that isn't going to happen any day soon. So the Big Guy just goes about playing his single player games.
Oh and it's Friday. You know what Friday means to me. Yes, it's GARBAGE DAY! Gotta get the sniffer ready!
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Good morning Cape Breton.Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home.
Summer will be coming to a close pretty soon. Last weekend, Tonya and the Big Guy hosted a work BBQ and they put my little pool away.
They haven't taken it back out.
I used to use the pool as a HUGE drinking bowl.
Now I've got this drinking bowl that Tonya will fill up and clean out every other day. Yes, the water is fresh, but it isn't the same as the pool water.
I miss my little pool.
We should be having another BBQ this weekend. It's Tonya's sister's birthday. Her name is Elaine.
So that will mean that the Big Guy will be doing the cooking for everyone. They will put their feed bags on, and afterwards, they will make their excuses and go home.
I wonder if the Big Guy will have another bon fire, like he did last weekend? I guess it really doesn't matter that much as I am not invited to participate. My lead gets tangled up in everything.
Just like yesterday. I've got this pinch collar. Well, when it's time for a walk, I can get pretty excited. I ran off the deck and then decided to go exploring. But I've still got the pinch collar on. Well if it didn't get hooked and then I couldn't get away. I tried to pull and pull, but the pinch collar DUG IN! That scared me a lot. As much as I tried, the pinch collar wouldn't let go and it was hurting me. The Big Guy needed to move me towards where I was stuck and I didn't want to move in that direction. But once he used his muscles to move me, I because unstuck and it didn't hurt any longer.
Then we went for our walk.
Tonya said that I had a nice poop on our walk. Made me feel proud.
A good poop will do that for ya.
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Good morning Cape Breton.Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home.
I spent the night on the deck again. There is only going to be so many more nights that I can do that before the nights are going to be really cold and Tonya will not allow me out there.
With the lack of rain this year, there certainly has been a lot less mosquitoes. Not to say that they are all gone, but there is a lot less of them.
So yesterday the Big Guy decided that he was going to make a Shepard's pie. You should have heard him. Going on and on about how good it tasted. But would he share? NOPE! But then again, there was onions in it. So I can see why he didn't share.
Tonya was confused about the Big Guy having a day off yesterday. She was sure he was going to be late and he just smiled at her. Then she finally figured out that he was on days off yesterday. So he stayed home and binged watched this TV programs called "Innocents". Obviously he liked it as he watched it all day long.
The weather people are saying that we are at risk for thunderstorms today. Sure... the Big Guy has heard this time and time again. But we don't seem to be getting any thunderstorms this year.
Then again, the Big Guy hasn't seen how I react to them. I heard that their last dog, Sebastian, he didn't like them at all.
So we will see if we get any thunder and lightening.
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Good morning Cape Breton.Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home.
So Tonya has this new Sunflower afghan, but I'm not allowed to go near it. Such a shame too. It has the flower pedals in 3D. I could chew and chew on them.
I'm sure she will turn her back on me...
I wouldn't ruin the afghan on purpose, it's just a driving force in me to chew on stuff.
I know that urge goes away when it comes to the Big Guy's stuff though. When I get caught going near his stuff, out comes this sour apple spray stuff. Gawd how I hate that stuff.
So I know, if it smells like the Big Guy = no touchie
Tonya and the Big Guy need to find a new family doctor. I heard that their doctor is going to close his practice. This came as a surprise to everyone. I hope he's OK. I've been to his office and he gave me a few pats. His wife is pretty nice too. I've met her a few times when we've been out walking. Now there is someone that walks FAR. She said once, she was walking about eight kilometers a day. WOW! I would be some tired when I got home.
The Big Guy gets to stay home with me today. He has a day off from work. Now, Tonya's got to go to work later on. I think she would much rather stay home.
I over heard the Big Guy saying he's going to be making this Sheppard's Pie. But not with potatoes. He gets some pretty weird ideas at times. But I also bet he's going to use onions in it, so that means NONE for me. I don't do so well with onions. It upsets my poop and it becomes all watery and stuff.
But I bet I can beg and get a taste from Tonya. I will take the chance that my pooper will be fine.
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Max our Bernese Mountain Dog at the spa
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Good morning Cape Breton.
Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home.
My non-furry Memere is safe and sound, once again, she is home in Moncton New Brunswick. She left Tonya this wonderful Sunflower Afghan. I know she is going to be showing it off at work all day today.
We went to the dog park yesterday and as you can see, I got up on the picnic table. The Big Guy was kinda worried about how I would get down.
No worries, I jumped right off the table.
It was fun being at the dog park. I got to meet a few dogs that I never seen before. Although there was this one brute. He went after this much smaller dog. So they left the dog park. I know who SHOULD have left and it wasn't the smaller dog.
That dog come sniffing around me and I wasn't concerned about him being a bully. I was much larger than him. But it never came to that. Eventually the owner left the dog park.
Afterwards we went to the Four Paw Pet Spa. I knew that it was bath time. I didn't fight it this time. I know during previous visits, I would fight it. But in the end, I still got a bath. Besides, the bath isn't so bad.
In the end, I was smelling pretty good. I've got conditioner in my fur, so it's all good. My fur is nice and soft and I smell pretty good too.
Then, later on, Elisha and Bryson came for a visit. I was really good this time. I didn't scare Bryson too much. He did make a comment on how I was a really big dog. But that's because he's so little. So of course I look rather large to him.
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Good morning Cape Breton.Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home.
Yesterday my non-furry Memere taught me to wait. Boy oh boy, let me tell you, that was hard to do. But I did great. She would tell me to sit and to wait and wait. She had put some chicken in my food bowl.
When she told me that I was allowed to have it, I got confused.
I can't have it and now I can have it? Talk about mixed messages.
Yes, the chicken was really good.
Talking of my non-furry Memere... she just left to go back to Moncton, where she lives. He helped her with her bags to get to her car, then helped with her GPS as it was set to the 24 hour time clock. She wanted it on a 12 hour clock. It didn't take much for the Big Guy to find the setting and fix it for her. He really likes doing stuff for her.
Tonya had a work party last night at our house. There wasn't too many people that showed up. But just enough for me to be really popular with everyone.
They had this really expensive speaker from work. It was nice and all that, but their little speaker that they have, is also pretty nice too. For the size of it, it puts out pretty good music. The Big Guy said something about a memory card for Tonya's phone so that they could add more music to her phone.
The Big Guy was outside putting stuff back where it belongs and putting other stuff away so that when Tonya gets up, most of it is done.
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Max our Bernese Mountain Dog deck dancing with Tonya
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Good morning Cape Breton.Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home.
Yesterday the Big Guy went and mowed the lawn. Not sure if it really needed to be mowed, as opposed to trimmed back a bit. Either way, it's done now. Although he did set the lawn mower higher than normal so that he didn't cut it too close to the ground.
The Big Guy also has this rat trap. Well he didn't notice, but it has a safety catch on it so that it doesn't go off. Because he didn't notice, it never went off and the rats and mice were able to get to the peanut butter that was inside the trap and never went off.
Yesterday he corrected that mistake.
So far, he hasn't caught anything.
Well you should see the afghan that my non-furry Memere has made for Tonya. Is she ever excited. She can't wait to show it off at work.
The Big Guy is really proud of all the work she had put into it.
She even makes hats and what not. Tonya really likes Minions. Well she made her a new hat and guess who put it on me... Yup, Tonya did. She thought that I would like it. Well guess what... I'm wearing a fur coat. I really don't need a hat.
My non-furry Memere also made an afghan for my non-furry sister-in-law Kim. Although her's is Gray with the Sunflowers and Tonya's is White with the Sunflowers.
Which one do you like?
Before you ask, neither afghan is for sale.
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Good morning Cape Breton.Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home.
So if you don't get the subject line, it's from one of the Big Guy's favorite movies, 2001 A Space Odyssey.
He can be such a nerd at times.
I need him to open the door so that I can go outside. Now, I could go THROUGH the door, but that would only piss him off.
So for now, I will ask him to OPEN the door for me.
So the Big Guy is going to be going to Ford this morning, with out ME.
I think they would rather enjoy my company over there. Then I could get extra pats and belly rubs. It would be so much fun. I could test each car to see how easy it is to get in and out of.
I could be one of their product testers. They could pay me in dog treats.
So the Big Guy got a new printer. Can you believe that the printer has it's own email address? So the Big Guy sends an email to the printer and it prints it off. Look, you would think the Big Guy just discovered sliced bread. He's just so happy.
I've been looking at the lawn/weeds in my property. I've got a feeling that the Big Guy really needs to cut the lawn/weeds. Normally his lawn looks a lot nicer than what it does. But without the rain, it seems that only the weeds are growing.
Also the front hedge is looking pretty ratty. Time to beautify my property.
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Good morning Cape Breton.Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home.
The Big Guy is always up early. Geesh, I wonder if he will ever sleep in? Me... well I like to nap all over the house. But not in what would be considered "normal" places.
I love to be inside door ways and what not. There is a movement of air from one room to another. This way, that little breeze keeps me cooled off.
The only problem with laying in door ways is that my slumber is always being disturbed. Especially if it's the Big Guy. He will often try to step around me, but other times, he just doesn't care that I'm sleeping, he will nudge me with his foot.
He has tried to step around me a few times. BUT there has been other times when he has stepped around and he has stepped on my fur.
OUCH!
Well that makes me jump.
Try pulling on a few strands of you hair and see how much YOU like it.
It also makes me very wary of when the Big Guy is moving around the house. It means "go find some other place to lay down".
Well, the Big Guy is off to watch one of his programs on TV. This time, it's Big Brother. At times, I think he watches it cause of the ladies wearing their skimpy bikinis.
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Max our Bernese Mountain Dog cools off his paws after a long walk
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Good morning Cape Breton.Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home.
So yesterday there was a bit of excitement. As I am laying in the kitchen, it started to rain in our kitchen. So that really wasn't expected.
The day previously, the city was working on the water supply. When the Big Guy came home, he noticed that there was air pockets in the lines and that there was dirty water. So he ran the water in the taps to clear the water. But he didn't get all the air out of the lines.
So when he turned on the shower, the air pocket would have compressed and the pipe under the bathroom sink, ruptured and created a hole in the tube. The Big Guy thought, WOW the shower seems pretty loud this morning.
Tonya got up to see why the shower was so loud. She came into the bathroom to see the water flowing from under the sink.
So they tried to clean it up. But meanwhile, the water was dripping though the floor and into the kitchen ceiling, where it was like a rain fall in the kitchen.
Thankfully they were able to stop the water. But still, the water was still dripping into the kitchen. Of course, I tried to lick as much of it as I could.
This also meant that I was walking though the puddles that was forming.
I was barking quite a bit. I was trying to let Tonya and the Big Guy know that it was raining in the kitchen.
The Big Guy can say some pretty stupid things at times. He was looking at me and saying stuff like, Lassie, are you telling me that Timmy fell into the well?
No you dumb arse... it's frickin raining in the kitchen!
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Max our Bernese Mountain Dog having his first swim
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Good morning Cape Breton.Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home.
So Tonya and the Big Guy got this new thing in the car. It's no longer the metal cage that would potentially catch my collar. Now it's a nice piece of canvas, it's got mesh and some pockets. Really nice. The Big Guy new, when they would have passengers in the middle seat, there was also an issue, of the metal cage could also catch on to them as well.
No more.
Now it all neat and tidy.
I wonder what took him so long to purchase it?
I knew he really liked the cage bit when he owned the Ford Taurus. He said that people used to mistake him for a cop. And they would have too. Especially when he would wear his "walking jacket". That is VERY reflective. He really likes that jacket.
Tonya has been walking me the last few days, without the Big Guy. He has this thing called gout. Apparently when this happens, he can hardly walk. But yesterday, he took these pills and he feels a lot better. So perhaps he can walk me again.
Now that the temperature isn't so outrageous for these parts. I can go for longer walks again.
I think the next thing the Big Guy is going to purchase for his XBox is a "book drive". This doesn't require an external power source, but does allow him to expand on the memory for his machine. This will allow him to have access to more games at any one time. Not that he can play more than one game at a time, but it will allow him to have it at his finger tips if he wants to play it without having to wait to install it.
I know... first world problems... they are real to him...
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Max our Bernese Mountain Dog running around our back deck
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