31/May/20 yes, I'm up... I'm awake I said... just let me stretch

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Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

So what's it doing on the last day of May?  Raining.  

Now, were not talking biblical rain falls, like, gonna float the ark away or anything like that.  

But raining that gentle rain, where a person, with a porch with a roof over it, would sit outside with their coffee and enjoy the sound of the falling rain.

It would be raining hard enough to keep the insects from flying.  Especially those mosquitoes.  Hate the mosquitoes.  Oh and the wasps.  I don't like them either.  Wasps are like the assholes of the insect community.

But not raining so hard that the birds weren't enjoying the rain too.  They are chirping.  The worms are coming up out of the ground.

Oh and the fresh smell of the rain falling.

Yep, that's the kind of rain a person would enjoy.

But that's not me.

We don't have a covered porch.

So, instead, I am laying by the back door, where the floor is the coldest.  I can hear the rain falling and that's good enough for me.

Oh and the Big Guy...  he's smiling cause he doesn't have to shovel rain.

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30/May/20 you try wearing a fur coat when it's warm outside

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Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The Big Guy has this fan, and it's pointing right at him.  Do you think he would turn the fan towards me?  Nope.  It was way hotter downstairs than it was upstairs.  

Yes, I know that heat is subjective.

It was only 27 C inside the house yesterday.  But less than a month ago, there was snow on the ground.

Like, right now.  I want to be OUTSIDE.

Because outside, it's 16 C.  Inside, it's 25 C.  Why doesn't the Big Guy want to be outside with me?

Hmmm...  he is saying this word.  Acclimatization.

OK, I had to look it up too.  Big word that means he wants to get used to the heat.  Well you don't have to do it all in one sitting.

Here is the thing.  Mother Nature is only pulling a prank on the humans.  Tomorrow, and the following days, it's going to rain and it's going to be cold.  Were talking daily high of +11 and +13 C in the upcoming days.  Lots of rain too.  25 to 30 mm of rain each day for about 5 days coming.

So it's a good thing that the Big Guy was outside yesterday morning, mowing the lawn.  Cause with all that rain, it's going to GROW!

One thing they always agree on though.  The yard does look really nice once the lawn is mowed.

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29/May/20 well it certainly does feel like Summer

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Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

This picture, it was taken last night, as myself, Tonya and the Big Guy were on the front steps.  So far, it's too early for the mosquitoes.  Oh, but they will be coming.  Soon and with a vengeance.

Well, if you were living in Cape Breton, you would have felt the heat.  Now, it was +29 with a +35 humidex.

I'm sure a lot of you are going "Pfft, that's not even hot".

Ahhh, perhaps where you live, this isn't hot.  For us though, it most certainly is.  Considering less than a month ago, there was snow on the front lawn.

From what I hear, it's going to be even hotter.  Plus drier.  I would think, those people that are on well water, they are going to have to think about some other source of water before the Summer is out.  Either that, or dig a deeper well.

The Big Guy didn't get to mow the lawn yesterday.  Tonya needed some help with the work computer.  Now, he wasn't able to get any of it resolved.  But there was some other stuff that she needed help with.  Which he was able to get done.  But, by the time he was done helping her, she was due to start her work.  He didn't want to be mowing the lawn and disturbing her while she is at work.

So...  before he starts work today, it is his plan to mow the lawn.

When the Big Guy was looking at the weather, starting tomorrow, thru till Thursday, rain, rain and more rain.

So much for the dry Summer.

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28/May/20 this is a day that Stephen King would write about

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Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Well it's foggy out this morning.

I'm not sure that this picture does it justice to see just how foggy it is outside.

There we go...  These pictures are a lot better.

Now you can actually see how much fog there is.  

Did you ever see that Stephen King movie, "The Mist".  Yea, this fog is thick like that.

Tonya was saying that the grass needs to be mowed.  Well, with the weather being what it is, the Big Guy isn't going to be mowing the lawn in The Mist.  Besides, it's a bit too early in the morning to get outside mowing the lawn.  Perhaps later this afternoon, once The Mist burns off.

Although you can't see it in this picture, you can see where that shed is in the last picture.  Well, on the Big Guy's side of the fence, there was a tree stump.  Well that tree stump has rotted away and the Big Guy used to put the ashed from his charcoal BBQ on top of the stump.  Well the stump has finally burnt away.  It left quite the hole in the ground.

The Big Guy has been trying to back fill the holes.  So he has been using stuff like potatoe peels, onions skins, other compost stuff.  Now bones and other stuff, well that goes in the green bin.  He finds that if mother nature will not eat it, it goes in the tree stump hole.  If mother nature will eat it, it goes in the green bin.  He uses the Sea Gulls to determine where each items goes.

Anyways, turns out, rats are not quite as finiky as Sea Gulls.  So the rats have been eating his potatoe skins, carrot skins, and other stuff that the Big Guy has been using to try to make compost to fill in the hole where the tree stump was.

So now, he has resigned himself to putting all the green bin stuff, even if it can be composted, into the green bin.

He does NOT want rats near his house.  Not at all.

He needs gravel to back fill the hole and then top it off the top soil and grass seed.  But then again, the rats that are still in the area, will likely eat the seed.  So, perhaps he may have to get grass sod instead.  I'm sure he will figure it out.

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27/May/20 Summer is around the corner and I'm already hot

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Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

I like the back entry to the house.

1st off, I get to see people as they come into the house.  Most people come into the house from the back door, not the front.

2nd item, there isn't any insulation under the floor, so it's the coolest room in the house.

3rd, it's by the shoes, so in an instant, I can grab one of Tonya's shoes and satisfy my need for a quick chew.

You can see the Big Guy's sneaker.  But like the song goes by Jim Croce...

You don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with the Big Guy's sneakers

Tonya started her 1st day of training to be a sommelier.  That's a really fancy name for a Wine Steward.  She says that she is really going to like the new job.

The Big Guy, well, he's still the Big Guy...  Yesterday he made some spaghetti and meat balls.  Of course his meatball sauce is chock a block full of onions.

What is his friggin problem?  Why all the onions?

Just like today, Tonya asked him to make some chicken burgers with a Cesar Salad.  Some how or other, I bet he's going to be adding onions in there.

He's just a freak.

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26/May/20 is that a fox I hear in my back yard

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Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

You know, for someone that was supposed to be off work yesterday, namely Tonya, she certainly didn't act like it.

She was shopping for this and shopping for that.  Going here and going there.  She only stopped around supper time.

What good is having a day off if your just going to run around like that?

The Big Guy is bitching about his gout.  So far, it's just "gout light".  Not the full blown gout where you can't even walk.

Later this morning, the Big Guy is going to have a virtual Doctor's appointment.  This is new.  Now you call to make an appointment.  The Doctor calls you a few days later.  Your prescriptions are sent in to the pharmacy.  Easy peasy.

I wonder if that's going to be the way of the future?  But you would think, for some of the more advanced patients, they would have like a facebook video chat so that the Doctor can actually "see" his patient.  

I'm pretty sure that the Doctor would like to get the Big Guy's blood pressure.  They always seem to like doing that.

I've seen that little machine that Tonya has at home.  You put the cuff around your arm and press the start button.  The cuff inflates.  I've seen Tonya give out little yells of pain.  It really puffs up that cuff.  Then, it deflates and gives the blood pressure and the heart rhythm.

I'm pretty sure I would chew on it when it would inflate.

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25/May/20 I've got my toy piggie to keep me entertained

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Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Yesterday, the Big Guy made that Beef Stew.  Oh how he went on and on about it.  Geesh, to listen to him, you would think he would have invented beef stew.  Later in the day, Tonya was dishing out the beef stew into containers.

Suddenly, she went to my food bowl.  She brought it into the kitchen.

There was gravy that was at the bottom of the pot.

She put the gravy all over my kibble and stirred it in.

OK, so now I know what the Big Guy was getting on about.  

I will give him his due.  It was rather delicious.

In the news...  Well, perhaps not news for the rest of the world to get excited about, but for my little family, it's news.  Tonya got a job with a new company.  She will be working with this company that delivers wine.  Of course we don't have a lot of details just yet.

But it does mean that Tonya will be off today.  Then she starts training on her new job tomorrow.

So, today, Tonya has to gather up all the computer equipment that is upstairs and bring it back to work and get all new computer equipment.  This will allow her to work from home.  Then, it will very likely be up to the Big Guy to set it all up for her.  Test it and make sure that she has access to everything.

Tonya is rather excited as she does like wine.

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24/May/20 I'm trapped under these stinky feet

Good morning world.

Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Once again, the Big Guy is up to his old tricks.

Can you ever guess what he did?  Just a little guess?

No?

Well I will tell you.

He gets up, around 4:30 this morning.  Now, had he not put the roast out last night, he wouldn't have done this.

Oh, I can see you about to say what he did.

Well, he made a Beef Stew.  He also said that it's one of his better ones.  Of course he made it in one of his porcelain covered cast iron dutch ovens.  That way, the beef will get super tender.

Do you know why I'm so upset by all of this?

Onions.

That's right.

The Big Guy put 2, count them, TWO onions in his beef stew.

That ruins the entire pot of beef stew.  Onions are NOT good for dogs.  Since I'm a dog, I can't have any of this beef stew.

Oh and by the way, he said that it was one of his better ones.  Can you believe that?

He's just nasty.

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23/May/20 it's been a long time since were allowed to see other people

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Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

This picture, above, is when the Big Guy was outside, polishing his precious car.  He didn't put me on my lead so that I could be outside with him.

Tonya soon fixed that and put me on my lead.

Which was fine for about 30 minutes or so.  But of course the Big Guy is working on detailing his car, and not paying attention to ME!

Tonya was inside the house, cleaning this and that.  I certainly wasn't under her feet while she was cleaning.

But I'm Tonya's dog.  Yes, yes, the Big Guy is my human as well, but he certainly isn't my favorite.  I know that he is the Alpha in the pack that is our family unit.

You don't bug the Alpha.  You just leave the Alpha alone.

Tonya, now, she isn't the Alpha.  I consider her to be pretty much at my level in the pack.

Yesterday was the 1st day that the Big Guy was doing his new job.  He said that it was pretty good.  For the most part, people NEED his help to figure something out.  He helps them and everyone goes away happy.

The Big Guy took this plastic bag out of the freezer.  I'm not impressed.  It's pulled pork.  Pork and me don't have a good relationship.  It has to be the fat content in the pork.  Once I eat pork...  oh my...  a few hours go by and then...  BAM!  My bowels scream with discontent.

Pork, your evil.

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22/May/20 I'm done being outside

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Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

If you didn't notice on Facebook, the Big Guy was outside, waxing his car.

Yea, it's a nice car and all that.  Not that I get to drive it.  Did you know, they even have a barrier so that I can't go from the middle seats to the front seat.

But the Big Guy was walking around the car.  Spray on the wax, wipe it in.  Wipe it off.  Rinse repeat.  BORING

I wanted back in the house with Tonya.

She may have been eating something and I wanted what ever she was eating.

Yesterday, I was talking about the fact that the Big Guy was going to be having a BBQ.  Well he did.  They had steaks.

Did I get any?  Well not from the Big Guy.  I could have been starving.

But I stared at Tonya.  Stare stare stare

I got some of her steak.

She just can't resist my stare.

She is powerless against me!

MUHA HA HA HA HA

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