Barkie Elimination Time...

Maggie started her "cough" bark routine and it woke me up this morning. I looked at my bedside alarm clock and it was showing 2:45 am and still very much in the dark and very, very cold outside -- a time to be under wonderfully warm and soft comforters and sheets. Old  man winter has finally made his way this far into the South. We will have our very first frost today before morning arrives.

"Let's not have any of this chasing phantoms in the night dearest Magster," I implored to my dog. "A true duchess doesn't bark at her peasants, but they may let them eat cake."

I listened keenly out the backdoor as all the neighborhood dogs were also barking in full effect. Something had them all quite stirred and riled up. Maggie's bravado and courage tripled at my looking out to see. She headed out the dog door to do her thing which is to guard the house and yard.

The way to get Maggie to mind is through her stomach I have learned.

"Mags? You hungry?" I asked out the backdoor.

She knows those words extremely well,

Maggie stuck her head inside the dog door seemingly asking if it is time to eat. Maggie came on in at the lure of batter fried fish and I quickly slammed shut  her dog door and locked it.

Flirting With Disaster...

Any time you take Maggie out to the car, she immediately knows she is going to the small animal clinic. She will try to get away from you. She starts shaking, whining, and will often release her bladder in my lap. Dad will drive as I try to make sure Maggie is comfortable as possible.

Sleepyhead and His Sidekick the Sandman...

What's Your Sign? Scorpio?

Nothing, and I mean nothing disturbs Maggie more than shrill, loud, and unbridled cat sex going on in her backyard.

"What is it, girl?" I asked Maggie as she started her routine early this morning before dawn as she barked menacingly. "It is those damn kitties again?"

I could hear them now as I mused to myself that those cats picked the wrong yard to copulate in. They were in for a rude awakening. I had to get up and shake the dew off my lily anyway -- my bladder feeling like it was going to pop.

It was so early I felt like barking myself as I urged Maggie on.

barf...barf...

"Get those kitties!" I told Maggie again for good measure and then I buried my face back into my pillow once more.

Soon, things calmed down once again and I managed to get some more sleep. Maggie sat at the foot of the bed performing her customary cough-bark routine for another half hour -- it's her kind of way to wind down as well.

I Can Sit and Stare for Hours...

A few Christmases ago, my father would give me five hundred dollars to spend on computer parts. He is now giving each grand-kid and their parents two hundred and fifty dollars to spend which limits my choices as far as computers go. Yes, is it an expensive hobby. I think I've settled on this though. I've just got to cough up an extra $30 which shouldn't be a problem.

WD Black 6TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD6001FZWX

$279.99

This will allow me to consolidate three different hard-drives in my blogging/gaming computer down  to one. It also has a 5 year warranty which is very nice.