30/Apr/21 can I have some of your steak

 

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

Tonya cooked up steak yesterday for their supper.

I was pretty sure I would get some from Tonya.

Like, what the hell?  She ate all her steak.

I better see if I can wear down the Big Guy.

What kind of crap is that?  No steak for the old dog?  Something is rotten in Denmark.

Tonya has learnt a new trick.

She walks me with my lead.  So I have a walking rope that is about 30 feet long.

I can travel.  I can run towards each tree.  I always stay within that 30 feet and don't really tug on the rope.

There is a downside to all that running.

When we get home, I'm exhausted from running from tree to tree and pissing.

I try to mark my spot.

By the end, I'm just lifting my leg and there is just a few dribbles of piss left.

Tonya says that I'm pissing dust at the end of our walk.

Dust or not, I'm trying to mark my places.

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29/Apr/21 did the hot dog maker break

 

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

Tonya is telling me that I will have to go visit the Vet one day.

But that she isn't looking forward to what the Vet is going to be telling her.

That I'm overweight.

I haven't been on a scale for a bit.

But I know that Tonya has been giving me treats.  Often.

Then there is the left overs from Tonya's plate.  (No left overs from the Big Guy)

Tonya says that there is this new dog food that I'm supposed to get.  It is for over weight dogs.

Now, look at the picture above.

Do I look fluffy?  Right, not over weight.  Just fluffy.

I've been washed and dried and my fur is really fluffy.

How about a treat?

They are only small.

OK, two treats.  Makes one big treat.

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Max our Bernese Mountain Dog with my humans having a BBQ

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28/Apr/21 the outdoors is only great if the sun is out

 

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

It has been raining out the last few days.

With the rain, I really don't sit out and enjoy the outside.  Neither does Tonya or the Big Guy.

I know that I will be the first one to bitch about it being hot outside.

The Big Guy's biggest gripe.  Mosquitos.

Obviously they are not out just yet.

Tonya loves sitting out in the evening and at night.  It is cooler that way in the summer.  But unless you use a lot of bug spray, you just can't enjoy sitting out without doing some sort of "swatting the flies" type of dance.

Birds eat a lot of mosquitoes.

If you ask the Big Guy, they don't eat enough of them.

Bats eat a lot of mosquitoes.  The Big Guy has always said, he would make a "bat box" and hang it on his property.  You need a North facing wall to hang the box.  He definitely has that.

The Big Guy just checked and they are available on Amazon.

For all the stuff that they purchase for their grandchildren and neices and nephews, you know this is something that they could get for themselves.

The Big Guy has seen bats flying around at night when the mosquitoes are out.

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27/Apr/21 back from the groomer

 

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

Any other dog would have ran to the closest mud puddle and rolled around in it.

That isn't about to happen with myself.

I was pretty upset with being at the groomer yesterday.

Why couldn't the Big Guy just take me to that Doggie Pet Spa and spend $10.00 to get me done?

But the knots behind my ears are gone.

The long fur between my toes and bottom of my pads, are gone.

That thick grey dead fur from my Winter Coat, is gone.

The Big Guy says that my fur is super soft right now.

OK, it is super soft.

Plus, really shiny.

Alright, it smells nice too.

When we got home, it was raining out.

They are just so lucky that I'm not a water dog.

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26/Apr/21 do not turn your back on your snacks

 

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

Yesterday we sat outside for a long time.

I had to go hide in the shade.  It was that warm on my fur.

At one point, the Big Guy stood up and was talking with someone in the driveway.  They were out walking their dog.

Tonya came outside and said hello and went back in the house.

What the Big Guy didn't notice, was that Tonya had placed a plate of cheese and crackers on the chair where the Big Guy was sitting.

At first, I was really barking at the lady and her dog.

I was not pleased.

But then I seen the cheese and crackers were in easy reach.

The Big Guy had his back to me, so...

I started in on them.

Krystal, who was in the driveway, said, what ever is on that plate, Max is eating it.

That is when the Big Guy turned and looked to see what she was talking about.

Hey, I stopped barking at Krystal and her dog.

I thought this is why the plate of cheese and crakers were put at this level.

I didn't get them all, but I sure was quiet.

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Max our Bernese Mountain Dog having his frozen cheese treat

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25/Apr/21 you are going to share your snacks with me

 

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

Yesterday, Tonya made some American Style Spaghetti.  This is where you mix all the spaghetti ingredients into the one pot. 

Normally, and I stress, normally, you put the pasta on the plate first, then pour the spaghetti sauce on top of the pasta.

Growing up, the Big Guy only knew of the American Style Spaghetti.  He thought of the other way, as being super fancy.

Having said that.

Tonya also purchased, what they call, a bread sword.

No.  It's not a sword made of bread.  It's just a long, tubular bread.

When I play my cards right, I get some of that bread from Tonya.

Yummy!

I will not bother with the Big Guy.  He just stares at me while he eats.  Yea...  creepy...

When it's late at night and the sun has gone down, and they have been having a few glasses of wine, they will get a snack.  Most times a piece of cheese.

If it's Tonya that is cutting up the cheese, she gets some for me too.

I just love cheese.  Doesn't matter what kind.

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24/Apr/21 can you please go outside and make me some hotdogs

 

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

The Big Guy has already been outside this year, cooking hot dogs and hamburgers.

How I love hot dogs.  They are like the perfect food.  No bones.

The sun certainly is getting up early every day.

The Big Guy gets up pretty close to 5:00 am every day.  It is getting to the point where the sky is no longer dark when he is getting up.

I have noticed that the Big Guy and Tonya drink coffee.

The Big Guy is pretty good, with or without coffee.

Tonya tells me to calm down before she has her coffee.

Yea, like that is going to happen.

I just get so excited when I see her.

Yes, I know it is only a few hours since I seen her.  But in Dog Time, it's an extraordinarily long time since I seen her.

I just HAVE to show her how much I love her.

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Max our Bernese Mountain Dog having difficult time with a hot dog

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23/Apr/21 why is it still snowing outside

 

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

Yesterday the Big Guy would put some sort of nonsense on the TV.  He would wrap himself up in his "blankie" and would wake up about 30 minutes later and the channel was changed.

He would reach for the TV remote and it would be missing.

He would look over and Tonya had the TV remote and was watching something that interested her.  She would look at him and say, "You were sleeping".  Which he was.

Now, today, the Big Guy tells me that he is going to go to work.  

He is feeling a lot better.

He also said that for his next booster shot, he will be taking vacation days so that he isn't calling off work.

I am glad that I am a dog and that I don't have to worry about such stuff.

I only worry about being put outside in the rain.

Yup, there was a cloud burst and I was left outside.

Not by the Big Guy.  But by Tonya.  She puts me outside even when I don't want to be outside.

I most certainly didn't want to be outside during the cloud burst.

Then, when I came inside, she wasn't impressed that I shook the water off my fur.

Well, if you didn't put me outside and forget about me, this wouldn't have been a problem.

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Max our Bernese Mountain Dog is waiting for Baby Aurora to drop her food

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22/Apr/21 I am a good dog

 

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

I was keeping an eye out for Tonya and the Big Guy yesterday.

They both got their Covid shot. Yesterday, they only wanted to sleep.  It was like they just couldn't nap enough.

I would go check on them.  Yup, breathing.

Tonya napped upstairs in the bed.

The Big Guy, he would just nap in the chair downstairs.  TV on quietly.  

He was wrapped up in his blanket.  Then he would throw it off, saying that he was too hot.  He would nap again.  Wake up cold.  Wrap himself up in the blanket.  

I didn't realize that the Covid shot made you dumb.

Why didn't he just put 1/2 the blanket on himself.

I looked at him today and was asking him, how does he feel.

He said that he is tired.  He just wants to nap.  He aches all over.

When the pharmacist said that it would be like getting the flu, she wasn't kidding.

Tonya called her sister and she feels drawn out too.

I asked the Big Guy, would he do it again?  Yes, 100% yes.  Only next time that he is going to get his booster, in the Summer, he said that he is going to book off vacation time.  He will know ahead of time.

Live and learn.

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21/Apr/21 I wonder if they could just feed me treats all day long

 

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

I wondered.  What if I ran out of kibble?  Could they give me a meal of just treats?

For some reason, I believe that I would probably get the squirts from all the treats.

Tonya and the Big Guy went out yesterday and they got their Covid shot.  Now, they have to get their second shot within the next 120 days.

Even though they got their shot, they still are not 100% immune to the Covid.  But they are more protected than they were yesterday.

Last evening, Tonya wanted to go sit outside to get some "Vitamine D".  The Big Guy wasn't feeling all that well.  I pulled up his hoodie and slouched a bit in his chair.  Then he closed his eyes.  He really didn't want to be outside at all.  He just wanted to sleep.

We didn't stay outside very long.

The Big Guy took off his jacket and had a nap on the couch.

He looked a lot better when he woke up.

He was telling me that he didn't sleep that well though.  His arm is still sore from where they injected him.

Tonya says that she feels fine.

I wonder why I didn't get the shot?  I heard that doggies can get the Covid.

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20/Apr/21 do you have any treats for me

 

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

That picture above, is me and Baby Floyd.

Bigger Floyd always gets his panties in a bunch when I get near his baby.

He is afraid that I'm going to bite him or something.

Like, no.  I wouldn't do that.  Ever.

Yesterday, I was speaking about the Beef Brisket that the Big Guy was going to cook up.

He did and I got some.  More than I expected.  People put too much on their plates and I got the left overs.

Something that everyone commented on.  There wasn't any gravy.

The Big Guy was going to make some gravy, but in the end, decided against it.

Today, he plans on making like a Biggie Breakfast with hash browns with the Brisket and fried eggs and some toast.

I will probably get some of Tonya's eggs, as I always do.  

Oh and some of her toast.

You KNOW that that Big Guy is going to put onions in the hash browns.

Today, Tonya and the Big Guy are going to be getting their Covid shot.  I hope they can feel better soon.  Not that they got the Covid, but I certainly wouldn't want them to get it.

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19/Apr/21 outside is where all the interesting smells are

Good morning world.

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

Today, the Big Guy is going to be cooking this giant piece of meat.

It's called a Beef Brisket.

I seen him researching how to cook it.  It's going to take about 10 hours to cook.  Perhaps less.  But likely it will take that long.

I also heard that he will NOT be using onions.  

That means, I will get some.

Oh boy!  I heard that Beef Brisket is great.

I guess I will find out.

I also heard that he plans on doing a vacuum seal with some of the left overs.  That means a lot of meat is going to be frozen.

So, even though this Beef Brisket is about 10 pounds.  I will likely only get a few slivers of it.

Nothing but a tease, if you ask me.

Tonya is also going to be making some potato salad.  I guess I will get some of THAT.  

The Big Guy is also going to be making a cole slaw.  They can have that.  Pfft...  carrots and cabbage?  Who likes that stuff?

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