31/Jul/22 five more months till new year

 

Good morning world.

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

The Big Guy was looking online and he found this new recipe.

Ever since he went to this pizza joint in Baddeck, he has been trying to find out why their pizza was so good.

He really thinks they are cooking on cast iron.

That their pizza is pan fried.

Not just run through a pizza oven.

So, it's not just the cast iron, but it's also the dough.

The Big Guy gets up every morning and watches YouTube videos.

Well there is this channel that has this pizza.

He thinks this may be the pizza that he has been trying to re-create.

He did up the dough last night, after work.

He actually added more gluten to the flour.

The Big Guy has a cousin that says she is allergic to gluten.  Her younger sister says that it's all in her head.  That she doesn't have celiac disease.

But the Big Guy needs to get MORE of this wheat gluten as he has run out.

Actually the recipe calls for bread flour.  But as much as the Big Guy has looked on the store shelves, he has never found bread flour.  But you can make bread flour.  When you get your all purpose flour, you remove a teaspoon and a half.  Then you add a teaspoon and a half of this wheat gluten.  Make sure to mix it up in the flour.  Ta da...  you now got bread flour.

Anyways, the dough is in the fridge, covered in saran wrap.

The Big Guy will be cutting up some sausages and pepperoni.  He doesn't slice it as thick as Tonya does.

But he also has to make sure that they got some pizza sauce and some shredded cheese.

Otherwise, it will be fried dough.  Not very pizza like.

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30/Jul/22 the front deck should be painted again

 

Good morning world.

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

The Big Guy was looking at the front deck.

It's time to paint it once again.

Same with the top of the railing.  Time to paint that too.

Myself and the Big Guy sat outside yesterday, as he was only listening to parts of songs.

Turns out, he was trying to do, what he calls, "favs".  

I guess that's short for favorites.

Then he was able to play them in a random order.

As he thinks of the music, he searches for it and adds it to his favs.

Not sure why he does that.  He has about 4000 or more songs on his phone in the memory.

Humans...

They do some pretty weird stuff.

Did you see the post that Tonya put?

I had this slab steak.

It was supposed to be the fat cap off the steak they had last night.

All's I know, I was able to finish the entire steak in less than a minute.

Then, as luck would have it, I got to have one of the bones from the prime rib that they had.

That was good too!

Tonya saved me a second bone.

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29/Jul/22 my job to look down the driveway

 

Good morning world.

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

I'm not sure why, but every time I see another dog, I have to announce to that dog, that this is my yard.

It really seems to annoy the Big Guy and Tonya.

Isn't that part of the reason why you got a dog.

So as to protect your yard.

Not so much from other dogs.

But from, well, everything!

I see it.

I announce it.

I don't have an off switch.

Now, let it be known...

If I wouldn't bark and announce that something is wrong...

People would be upset.

They get upset when I announce.  They get upset when I'm quiet.

Is there no happy medium?

No pleasing some people...

Seesh...

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28/Jul/22 sleeping in the master bedroom

 

Good morning world.

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

I've been hanging out with Tonya in the master bedroom.

They have a new air conditioner.

I get to lay on the floor.

The floor is actually cold.

When they open the bedroom door, you can feel the warm air rush into the room.

It's too bad that they didn't have more air conditioners in the house.

I heard that when they lived in Winnipeg, they had central air.

One year, Tonya's father went to visit with them.

He was a smoker.

He would go sit on the front steps to have a smoke.

Because he would go sit outside and then come inside, he eventually caught a cold.

The Big Guy used to experience this every year when he was in the Navy.

They would leave for the Caribbean each Winter. 

So, January would come around and they would take off down South.

Of course the ship was kept cool.

There was electronics on board that didn't do well in the heat.

So, if you went to the upper decks, it was warm.

Then you come inside the ship, where it was cold.

Eventually, everyone caught a cold.

But when they would go back to Halifax, around April, or May, all the crew had a marvelous tan.

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Your daily video - Max our Bernese Mountain Dog is the first one in the pool

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27/Jul/22 there is cool air over here

 

Good morning world.

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

I woke up this morning and it was actually a bit cold.

Not so cold that you needed to be wrapped up in a blanket.

But actually cold enough so that I could sleep.

There is this new white box that is in the window.

It blows cold air in the bedroom.

Tonya brought me upstairs and I was able to stay in the room with them.

But this morning, when I opened the bedroom door... I was hit in the face with warm air.

I think this room is my new favorite room.

Now, I think they should have a box like this in every room of the house.

I had a look at the box that it came in.

This white box is called Air Conditioner.

Where have you been all my life?

Yesterday, I wasn't feeling so good.

I went downstairs and barfed on the living room floor.

The Big Guy cleaned it up.

He didn't say much, but I knew he wasn't happy.

It was just that I was suffering due to the heat in the house.

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Your daily video - Max our Bernese Mountain Dog laying quietly

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26/Jul/22 get in the pool she says

 

Good morning world.

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

Yesterday, Tonya blew up the swimming pool.

It's partially filled with water.

She wanted me to get into the swimming pool.

I really didn't want in the pool.

I found once my fur gets wet, I stink like wet dog.

Wet dog smell invites the blue assed flies.

Tonya was insisting to the Big Guy to "help" me into the pool.

That could have meant, picking me up and putting me in the pool.

I am so glad that he didn't.

He told Tonya, if I wanted to get into the pool, that I would go into the pool.

If I don't go into the pool, it's because I don't want to be in the pool.

Pretty simple concept.

The Big Guy downloaded the "Magic 8 Ball".

He asked if I was going to go into the pool.

He asked several times.

Each time, it said, variations of yes.

So I put my front paw into the pool.

You will notice, paw, not paws.

I left and went and laid down at the other side of the deck.  I had enough of the pool.

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Your daily video - Max our Bernese Mountain Dog having a bath at the spa

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25/Jul/22 it's warm in the house

 

Good morning world.

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

Winter is coming, right?

It will get cold again, won't it?

Yesterday, Tonya decided that I would benefit from being hosed down with cold water.

I tried to hide from her.

I wasn't able to hide.

She soaked me.

There is a reason that dogs shake off the water that is in their fur.

Now, I stink like a wet dog.

Now, my fur is wet.

The wet fur is trapping the heat.

The wet fur stinks.

Now I've got blue assed flies coming around me.

My wet dog smell is attracting flies to me.

If I wasn't miserable enough by just being hot, now I've got flies all over me.

Eventually Tonya said to go back inside.

Which is where the Big Guy wanted to be in the first place.

Me too.

I only want outside to do my business.

There are fans inside where I can cool off.

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Your daily video - Max our Bernese Mountain Dog and it's warm in the kitchen

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24/Jul/22 who is that across the street

 

Good morning world.

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

Yesterday, I tried moving from spot to spot, trying to find a cool place in the house.

No matter where I went, there was no cool spot.

Tonya would encourage me to lay under the fan.

That didn't work as I wasn't feeling any air moving.

If I laid further away, Tonya said that I wasn't close enough.

We stayed outside for a bit.

Then the mosquitoes showed up.

When Tonya asked the Big Guy if he wanted to go inside, he quickly said, yes.

They need a screened in room where the mosquitoes can't reach them.

Then we could stay outside for a lot longer.

They had a few screened in rooms.

But I didn't realize what a screen was.

They soon had a dog sized rip in the screen.

The mosquitoes found the hole and they were swatting themselves silly again.

Tonya made some spaghetti sauce yesterday morning.

The Big Guy thought they were having spaghetti last night.

Nope, they had kebabs.

They are having spaghetti tonight.

I'm going to go find a cool spot on the floor and try to beat the heat.

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Your daily video - Max our Bernese Mountain Dog can't find the fan

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23/Jul/22 don't splash me

 

Good morning world.

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

So, you can see that this is a blow up pool.

You are not about to use the wind from your lungs to blow this up.

You need this little unit that blows air.

Tonya messed up and put the plugs to blow up the pool next to the railing.

The Big Guy said, empty the pool and start over.

Tonya said, no, due to the price of water.  We are not dumping it to start over.

Since Tonya doesn't have any plants around the yard, we don't have anything that can really use the water.

The grass could use a good watering, but that isn't going to happen.

So, when it comes time to drain the pool, it will get turned.

I've been trying to find a cool spot to lay

When I put my paws in the water, it does offer me relief.

You wouldn't think so, but we do sweat through our paws.

I've noticed that people are walking their dogs early in the morning, or late in the evening.

The sidewalks are just too hot on our paws.

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Your daily video - Max our Bernese Mountain Dog having his first swim

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22/Jul/22 gotta find a fan

 

Good morning world.

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

I've decided that it's important to locate a fan and don't sit right under it.

You have lay on the floor, several feet back from it.

Tonya has set up the kids pool in the back.

I heard they are going to be dropping by later on.

The Big Guy was jabbering about making bread sticks.

Shouldn't be that hard to make.

Just really skinny bread.

But it is to know, how long to bake them.

Also, the house is really warm.

Is now the time you really want to be taking to do some baking?

The Big Guy also has to get downstairs to get the garbage out.

Otherwise, it will be another week before they can put the garbage to the curb.

Yup, 1st world problems, they are real.

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Your daily video - Max our Bernese Mountain Dog waiting for my cookie

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21/Jul/22 I'm not done barking yet

 

Good morning world.

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

We will go sit out front of the house.

This is my opportunity to exercise my dominance of my property.

How do I do that?

Well, when I see another dog, I bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and bark

I'm sure you get the picture.

The Big Guy keeps saying, he is going to get a super soaker.

Bark once, I'm ok.

Bark twice, I get a warning.

Bark excessively and super soaker.

But Tonya did say that she would get the Big Guy the bug-a-salt when we get paid.

That should keep his inner man child happy for a few months.

The Big Guy was reading the reviews for bug-a-salt online.

He should be as happy as a clam.

One review, the guy said that he cleared the house of all the flies in 15 minutes.

He opened the patio door in hopes that more house flies would come into the home so that he could get them as well.

Another review and the guy said, he just sat on his back deck, just waiting for the flies to come within shooting distance.  He said that he was entertained for hours.

I can see the Big Guy being entertained for a lot longer than that.

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Your daily video - Max our Bernese Mountain Dog trying to eat with a cone on his head

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