31/Mar/22 why do beans make you fart

 

Good morning world.

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

The Big Guy is making a pot of baked beans today.

I think he is also going to be making some tea biscuits to go along with the beans.

I know that Tonya was pretty happy to hear that he was making the beans.

But why do beans make you fart?

The Big Guy looked it up.

I guess beans have sugars and fiber that's hard for humans to digest.  So the extra effort their digestive system goes though, produces gas.

The Big Guy read that you could add summer savory to off set the farts.

I think he would much rather fart than add summer savory to his beans.

I also heard that he will be adding bacon and onions to his beans.

Could you add anything else to them so that I can't have any of them?

I guess I will just have to hold out for the tea biscuit.

He also has a tooth that he needs to get pulled.  It's been hurting him for several years now.

He says, he is not getting a root canal.  That it's time for it to go.  The tooth is at the back of his mouth and not in his smile line.

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30/Mar/22 my paw is two boards wide

 

Good morning world.

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

Last night, I could smell BBQ.

The Big Guy made some chicken wings in the oven.

Crap...

Of course I can't have any wings.

I was hoping that there would have been some hot dogs.

I sniffed and sniffed, but I wasn't able to see any.

Just my luck.

Tonya has asked the Big Guy to be able to make some fried steak with veggies, so that it would be able to go in a wrap.

Of course the Big Guy can do that.  That's easy for him.

I am sure that he is going to use onions.

That means no wraps for me.

I wonder if I could encourage him to drop a few strips of cooked meat into my food bowl?  That shouldn't be too hard for him to do.

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29/Mar/22 it's only snow

 

Good morning world.

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

Tonya and the Big Guy seem to be coughing a lot.

Turns out, Covid isn't done giving.

The Big Guy read about the "Covid Cough".  It's a real thing, but should run it's course in about a month or less.

The Big Guy got off work before Tonya.

He decided to lay down and have a nap.

Tonya came downstairs and put me outside.

It was snowing out.

The really big snow flakes.

I came inside and the Big Guy was still laying down.

He arm was sticking out as he was laying on the couch.

His fingers brushed up against the fur near my hind quarters.

My brain says: HEY!!  The Big Guy is going to give you a scratch!!

I side stepped.

His arm is now full of snow and he can't move it away from my fur, which has a lot of snow on it.

Now he is 100% awake.

But he isn't giving me a scratch.

Better side step again so he can give my hind quarters a proper scratch.

Where did his arm go?

Why isn't he scratching me?

I glanced and he has pulled his arm under the blanket.

His blanket is full of snow that was on my back.

Look, it's only snow.  It will melt.  SCRATCH ME!!

Guess I better shake the snow off my back.

Well, now the Big Guy isn't happy at all.

But I got the snow off my back so that he could give me a proper scratch.

He told me to go lay down.

What a mean guy.

No scratches.

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28/Mar/22 I'm right sexy

 

Good morning world.

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

The Big Guy watches this reality TV show called "The Curse of Oak Island".

They have been digging holes in the ground for a long time.  Everyone is sure there is buried treasure on the island.

They found traces of gold in the water samples.

I guess they never considered, Nova Scotia does have a lot of gold mines.  It's only natural that gold would be in the water samples.

But they keep digging.

They keep finding pieces of wood where wood shouldn't be.

They find spikes.  

They find buttons.

All sorts of stuff that shouldn't be there.

They get it dated and find it's from a long time ago.

Then they sit around and say, there is gold and other stuff that shows, they are getting close to the treasure.

So far, no treasure.

The Big Guy is sure, they will not find any treasure.

Once they do find treasure, the TV show would be over and done with.

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27/Mar/22 can you say "hot dogs"

 

Good morning world.

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

All the snow that we got the other day.

It's gone.

Poof...

Melted.

Of course the ground is still frozen, so it has made for a lot of puddles.

I am just so anxious for the Hot Dog makers to make me some Hot Dogs.

So far, they have been boiled in water this past Winter.

The Big Guy has got to get some Hot Dogs on the BBQ once again.

Not sure what he is waiting for.

It's not like I can go to the store for him and get him the Hot Dogs and then put them on the BBQ.

I don't have the thumbs that is needed.  That is a specialty that humans have.

Then again, he does have the charcoal BBQ in the garage.  I wonder how I could encourage him to get that going.

Can you say: STEAK

Perhaps that will get him encouraged.

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26/Mar/22 I've got snow on my back

 

Good morning world.

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

I demanded to be outside when the Big Guy went out to snow blow the yard.

I needed to see what he was up to.

He was moving the snow around, then he backed into the garage and it was silent.

He was waiting.

He waited.

And he waited.

And waited.

Do you know what he was waiting for?

The city to come by with their big plows.

He knew, if he just sat and waited, eventually they would rumble past and put the snow from the street into the driveway.

He didn't have to wait all that long before they showed up.

Once he cleaned that up, he was able to put the snow blower away.

But he isn't so sure that this will be the last of the snow for the year.  There has been snow in April.

Not that the Big Guy has seen that snow last very long.

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25/Mar/22 taste center extraordinaire

 

Good morning world.

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

The Big Guy made some steak last night.  Plus they also had some Cesare Salad.

I had to wait for Tonya to be full.

She put some of her steak in my food dish.

The steak was gone by the time she put the plate in the dishwasher.

I heard that Tonya is going to make a ham today.

This does me no good.

I don't have a good relationship with ham.

The Big Guy got his new light for his garage.

It's called a tri burst light.

It is super bright.  The previous light was one of those CFL curly lights. It put out 200 watts of light.  Which was good, but it had to come up to speed before it would be the 200 watts of light.

This new LED light is 4000 watts of light.  It's also instant on and instant full bright.

The packaging came with a warning, not to look directly into the light.

The Big Guy glanced at the light.

He understood why they said not to look directly at the light.

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24/Mar/22 Winter isn't done with us

 

Good morning world.

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

Tomorrow, they are forecasting for 6 inches of snow, then, about 2 inches of rain.  Oh and some of the rain. well, it's supposed to be freezing rain.

But, the Big Guy got a jerry can full of gas, so he will be able to go outside and take care of the snow before it flips to freezing rain.

The Big Guy had a hankering for what he calls "triangle" fish.

So, he went to Superstore and got some.

Tonya wanted it done in the Air Fryer.  Which he did.  But, due to the fact that the fries also had to be cooked, the fish was cold by the time they could have it.

The Big Guy didn't mind though.

Tonya said that next time, not to do the fish in the air fryer.  Next time, do it in the oven.

The Big Guy also said that he wants to try to make a donair burger.

So, it's just a regular home made hamburger.  But to add donair spices to the burger.

He is pretty sure, it will taste incredible.

I'm pretty sure, I wouldn't be allowed to have any of the hamburger.

Just my luck...

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23/Mar/22 hope you plan to walk around me

 

Good morning world.

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

It's my Memere's Birthday today.

She has been on planet Earth while it has gone around the sun 79 times.

She has said that she plans to come visit us next month.

She says that I'm a good dog.

She gives me a pat and then for me to go lay down.

She isn't like Bonnie and Leo.  When they visit, they really make a fuss over me and stick to them.

The Big Guy was late getting up today.

Normally he is up at 5.  But today, he slept in till 5:45.  That's not like him at all.

Tonya made pizza yesterday and of course, I had to wait for her to be done the crust.

After the Big Guy came down from work, I sat next to him.

What a waste of time.

He ate all his pizza crust.

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22/Mar/22 let me think about that

 

Good morning world.

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

The Big Guy was pretty upset that he continues to test positive on the Covid rapid tests.

Having said that, Tonya was speaking with one of her friends who is a CPA Nurse.  That stands for Care Program Approach.  In other words, do no harm.

But it still takes a long time to get your credentials.

She said that the Big Guy could continue to test positive on those tests for several months from now.

So, he really doesn't have Covid, just the bits that that test looks for, will display the fact that he will test positive.

Much like the fact that the Big Guy always test positive for tuberculosis.  But in this case, he is a carrier.

So, he understands the concept.

He just has to get over this.

Much like the weather.

It's Spring.  It's going to continue to snow.

It is, however, BBQ season.

When am I going to get a BBQ'ed Hot Dog?

What are they waiting for?

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21/Mar/22 did you want to chew on the bone

 

Good morning world.

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

I'm done chewing on the bone.  It's right in front of me.  You can "borrow" it, if you would like.

I really can't have donairs.

They are way too spicy for me.

Tonya had ordered 2 donairs to be delivered.

She had about 1/2 and said that it has no taste.

The Big Guy had his once he was done work.

He was the same way.

No taste.

Now, they both said that they could taste the spices.

It was hot to the mouth, due to the spices.

But the meat had no taste otherwise.

Oh well, it will come a day, when they notice that stuff has flavour once again.

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20/Mar/22 let me give you a hug

 

Good morning world.

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

Tonya had to call off work yesterday.

She still is feeling bad from Covid.

But, she said that she has to go back to work again today as she doesn't have any more holidays to pay herself for her days off that she has taken.

The Big Guy is back to work though.

Since he was the only one that was working, I didn't go visit with him while he was working.

He doesn't pay that much attention to me when he is at work.  A few pats on the head and then ignores me.

Tonya made some pork ribs yesterday.

She didn't like them very much.

She said they were fatty.

The Big Guy knows, where there is fat, there is taste.

I know, where there is fat, there is explosive diarrhea.  Not good for me at all.

The Big Guy has all the ribs in a container in the fridge, for himself.  Tonya didn't want any of them, after the few that she tried.

I would love to have them myself.  But pork doesn't agree with me too much.  So I will have to give them a pass.

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19/Mar/22 I've got a powerful tail

 

Good morning world.

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

Last night, Tonya made breakfast for supper.

She also baked the hash browns vice frying them.

Obviously they are a lot better for the Big Guy while they are oven baked.

He does find that frying them makes them taste so much better.

Not much of a surprise there.

Honestly, I will take the hash browns, fried, baked, heated in the microwave...  I'm really not that fussy.

She also made some sausages and some bacon.

Oh and eggs.

Plus toast.

I almost had to "give a paw".

But, since Tonya has lost a lot of her taste due to the Covid that she has, she put a lot of ketchup on her supper.

In the end, she scraped her plate into my food dish.

I'm sure glad that this Covid doesn't effect me.

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