31/Jan/22 Sailor Sailor don't look down, ain't no nickels on the ground

 

Good morning world.

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

Yesterday the Big Guy got out his snow blower.  

That was a bit of an adventure for him.

He had to do the "walk like a penguin" all the way to the garage.

He took the shovel with him as a "third leg".

But he would do that and then sort of walk like he was on a curling rink.

He made it to the garage and then got out his snow blower.

The snow blower has chains on the tires.  So no problems there.  He got rid of the stuff that the city put in his driveway.

It was a good thing that he didn't wait a lot longer.  Otherwise, it would have been a solid block of ice.

But once it was all cleared, he got rid of some of the tree branches that had fallen into his driveay.

His next door neighbor, he has some bark that fell off the tree that was in his yard, ended up in the Big Guy's driveway.

He didn't mind though.  It's sort of like extra traction for his driveway.  Bits and piece of bark all all over the place.

The Big Guy didn't have enough salt to do his driveway.

Now, if he purchased a bunch of sand.  He would have spread it over the ice.

But, instead, he is going to rely on Mother Nature to melt the ice for him.

Lazy bastard...

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30/Jan/22 I will hug him and squeeze him

 

Good morning world.

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

The Big Guy woke up a little earlier than normal today.

He is itchy all over.

He isn't allergic to much.

Just cats that he knows of.

But he woke himself out of sleep, scratching.

Tonya told him to stop scratching.

Yea, like that is going to happen.

He found some Benadryl that is really old.

If it would be Tonya, she would throw it out.

Yesterday, while she was putting the canned goods away, she found a can of tomoatoe juice that was over a year old.  She was going to throw it out.

The Big Guy said no.  It isn't dented.  It isn't bulged.  So, in his mind, it should still be good.

Tonya said, she will not have any of his tomatoe juice.

Those cans were put in the back of the cupboard, where the Big Guy couldn't see them.  So they were forgotten about.

She bought new cans of tomatoe juice.

The Big Guy didn't look, but he hopes that it's not hidden at the back.

If they are, they will be over looked once again.

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29/Jan/22 work police doing a surprise inspection

 

Good morning world.

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

Yesterday, the Big Guy went downstairs as Tonya was doing the laundry.

The Big Guy came upstairs.

He had a coffee for Tonya.

BUT

I sniffed some cookies.

They were in his pocket.

He gave one to Tonya and went back to his own "office" to try to hide the other cookies he brought upstairs.

Nice try.

They are the maple cookies that he loves so much.

HE HAD TWO COOKIES ON HIS DESK!!

I tried to tell everyone that he is in training with, he had food at his desk.

DAMN!!

The camera it tilted up and no one could see me.

No one was the wiser.

But he was breaking the rules. 

No food at your work desk.

He ate the cookie, all in one bite.

SHIT!!

He is destroying the evidence.

Tonya knew something was "up" as I never hang out with the Big Guy while he is at work.

It was too late.  The cookies were gone and me, being who I am, I sniffed out any crumbs that fell and ate them up.

It was like the cookies were never there.

I better step up my game if I'm going to be the "food at work police".

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28/Jan/22 is it 9 am yet

 

Good morning world.

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

Can you see the baby gate in the picture?

This gate keeps me from going upstairs.

Tonya sleeps upstairs.

Around 7 am, each day, I want to be outside.

If Tonya and the Big Guy are sleeping, I will bang on the gate, DEMANDING to be put outside.

If not, I will leave you a present on the living room floor.

Tonya always gets up.

BUT...

They have both moved to a new account and they are not working as late.

The Big Guy is back to getting up at 5 am each day.

He will come downstairs and put the coffee on and start his day.

When I need to go outside, he is right there to put me outside.

But Tonya is still upstairs.

Do you know how long it is between 7 am and 9 am?

In human time, yea, you guys can knock it out of the park.

In dog time.  You can leave the house, start the car, forget something and come back in the house.

I will be just as enthusiastic to see you again, as if you had been gone the entire day.

Around 9 am, I can hear Tonya getting out of bed.

I can hear her walking towards the bathroom.

I am up and stating at the gate on the stairs.

I get impatient and I will bang on the gate.

There has been a few times, the Big Guy walk over and let me upstairs.

Do you know what a 160 pound dog sounds like, running up the stairs?  I will burst into the bathroom and I will enthusiastically great Tonya while she is trying to do her "business".

Then, it begins the yelling.

She hasn't had her coffee yet.

Don't care.  I am happy to see you and I'm going to show it.

She has to make her way downstairs.

Don't care.  I am happy to see you and I am going to be in the way, while you try to get down the stairs.

It's even worst if the Big Guy doesn't open the gate first.

Tonya will come downstairs and I am trying to force the gate open. I've got to greet her and show her how much I love her.

Once the gate is open, there is the jumping with joy and the leaning on her.  

Remember, still no coffee and she isn't quite as happy to see me.

Don't care.  I'm happy and that is what's important.

When Tonya gets her coffee and sits in her chair, I will get up on her lap and try to hug her.  (See the part where I am 160 pounds of lap dog)

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27/Jan/22 Blueberry Peanut butter treats

 

Good morning world.

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

Do you see that old chair that is in the picture?

It belonged to Tonya when she was little.

She never got rid of that chair.

Just like there is a chair that is in the master bedroom.

It is from the 1st table set that Tonya and the Big Guy would have purchased together.

That table was passed on to Floyd, but didn't really survive after several moves.

There are other chairs they have that is around the house.

You should see this one chair that is in their front entrance.

Because it has hooks on it, it is pretty much covered up with hats and jackets.  The Big Guy tried to look it up.  I guess it's called a High Tree Bench chair.

But due to where is it at, it's pretty much lost amongst the clutter.

The Big Guy thinks that it would be better if it was at the bottom of the stairs, but then it would cover the light switches and the thermostat to the house.

I'm more of a love seat person.

I get to curl up and I've still got room to stretch out if I want to.

Not so much if the Big Guy plops his big arse into the love seat first though.

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26/Nov/22 you can take pictures using your watch

 

Good morning world.

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

Normally the pictures that the Big Guy takes are wide screen.

He took my picture on his phone, but he used his watch to click the shutter.  But the picture wasn't wide screen.

But I guess if you want to go and be in the picture.

His phone has "gestures".  If you hold up your palm, the phone will see it and give a 10 second count down to take the photo.

The Big Guy loves technology.

Talking of technology.

Yesterday, Tonya was told to go do some research for work.

Well, her computer got a virus.

The Big Guy was told to fix her computer.

He did the standard procedures and he was pretty sure he had fixed it.

Tonya emailed one of her peers at work.  

The virus was passed a long via the email.

Bingo bango bongo...  The Big Guy is contacted to shut down the remove the tower from the network.

Tonya had to use her home computer to do the rest of her work yesterday.

She is getting a new tower today.

The Big Guy is pretty sure he doesn't have any virus on his computer.

Time till tell.

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25/Jan/22 why do I have to be quiet when you are at work

 

Good morning world.

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

Tonya and the Big Guy were working from home yesterday.

I went visit them a couple times.

But it was BORING...

They just sit and stare at these computer screens.

I wasn't into that.

I just laid at the top of the stairs and waited for them.

After they were done work, they came downstairs.

What did they do?

They watched TV.

I wanted some hugs from Tonya.

I got up in the chair with her and gave her some hugs.

Even though she was at work, which was only upstairs, I missed her.

I think I will visit her again today while she is at work.

Gotta make sure she isn't bored.

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24/Jan/22 did you say there is snow in the forecast

 

Good morning world.

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

The Big Guy was watching the news yesterday and the lady that does the weather, she was saying there is going to be some snow today.

Not a blizzard or anything like that.

The other day, Tonya put some chicken bones outside.

Guess what I found had been moved.

Yup, the chicken bones and they were close enough for me to get.

Tonya tried to chase me.

Tried.

I ate as much of the chicken bones as I could before she got them away from me.

I know, I know, I'm not supposed to eat chicken bones.

But why can they have chicken bones and I can't?

It's just not fair.

I'm pretty sure, those bones went in the green bin, which is down the driveway.

I wonder if the Big Guy will ever bring the green bin back to the back deck again?

Then again, no feral cats are around, so the rats would likely come back.

Naw, he's probably going to leave the green bin where it's at.

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23/Jan/22 what are you up to now

 

Good morning world.

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

Yesterday, the Big Guy and Tonya were moving a lot of stuff around the house.

All of it was being done upstairs.

Tonya has her "office" at the front of the house and the Big Guy is at the back of the house.

Tonya is spread out over a 6 foot folding table.  The Big Guy, he doesn't need a lot of space and has a 4 foot folding table.

Both seem really happy with their set up.

So, when I go upstairs to visit them at work, I will have two different rooms to visit.

Once I get my pats and scratches from each, I will probably just go hang out downstairs.

Tonya went and put that "couch table" in front of the living room window.  I will have to go to the "library" to be able to get up on the chaise lounge to actually bark at stuff outside.

Most of the people that come for a visit, always go to the back door.

The Big Guy has been pretty happy about the weather lately.

You know what I mean about that.

No snow.

It's cold enough to snow.

But it just isn't snowing.

No rain either.

At least not today.

I like the snow and how it's cold on my belly.

Oh well...  Winter isn't done just yet.

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22/Jan/22 Christmas stuff down, Valentine's stuff goes up

 

Good morning world.

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

Look to the right of the picture.

You can see the little portable heater is on.

But, just above that.  

There is a little white colored tree.

it has hearts on it.

This is for Valentine's.

Yup, it's a Valentine's Tree.

Not just the one.

There is 2 of them.  You just can't see the second one in this picture.

Other changes that you can't see in this picture is that the computer room has been changed.

The Big Guy brought up this smaller, 4 foot folding table that his father had built for the Commodore 64 computer.

Back then, you didn't have a computer monitor, you had a TV that you devoted as the screen.

Then, there was this rather big and chunky computer monitor.

Eventually they made flat screens for the computer.

Now, it's not enough to just have the one computer screen.  A lot of people have two screens.

If you are a gamer, it's not uncommon to have 3 computer screens.  Plus, they are very likely to be extended, super wide, so that they take up your field of vision.

The Big Guy isn't quite there just yet.

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21/Jan/22 why is that dog barking on TV

 

Good morning world.

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

Tonya said that the tree is to come down and go in the attic.

She took all the decorations off the tree.

Then it will be the task of putting everything away for another year.

I sure would like to help.

But it ain't my job.

I will do my part by just staying downstairs and out of the way.

I've heard that this is a big help on it's own.

I've never been to the attic.

In some movies, the attic is a scary place.

In this house, this is where the servant used to live.

The reason they know that is that there is a sink that is upstairs and there is only cold water.  The servant didn't need hot water.  Or it wasn't part of their contract.  I suppose they could have warmed some water by putting it in a container on top of the hot water baseboard heater that is in the room.

But I would imagine, it must have been super cold up there in the winter.

How times have changed.

There is no one that lives up their now.

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