Watch dog
April 24th 2011 21:55
Guess what. I’ve learned to tell the time.
Now I can watch the clock on the wall over there, and tell you that … big hand on the … take off four, add two … little hand – huh? - oh there it is, behind the big one … plus 11 … add half, or is it subtract? - that’s a tricky one … and I can tell you that it’s, wait, is that right? – yes, it’s seven and a half hours until dinner time.
Seven and a half hours?
Damn. Clock-watching is depressing.
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Comment by Heidiclyde
Y'know, yer've got me beat with this clock stuff. There's ther big wooden thing whut sings er song ut us an bongs sometimes an Heidi ses thut's er clock. Ut's gut funny marks on ut an a garbla sticks whut change places whenever yer looks ut thum. Es I doin orright so far?
Ut's yer countin bit whut really gets me. Yer've gut 4 legs an 2 frunt paws an 3 toes on each frunt paw an thut's ut fer countin in'ut? I dun get the bit abaht 7 an 11.
Yer know Scratch,I dun reckon yer clock lark's all thut crash hot, it dun make nothin go faster. An anyway, whut's ther big rush? Dun yer need time fer sleepin between meals like ther rest uv us?
Yer Mate,
Clyde.
Comment by Chris Champion
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You're right, as usual. I thought clock-watching would give me a more ordered, less stressful countdown to meal-times, but it just makes the day drag.
And anyway, it's an entirely inappropriate activity for a dog.
Do you know anything about knitting? I think that could make the time until meal-time pass more quickly. I might take up knitting.
Wags,
Scratch
Comment by Heidiclyde
Whuts orl this doin stuff abaht? Yer a Greyhound. Yer eats an yer has er bit uv er run or a play with yer toys an yer sleeps. An thuts ut!
Yer carryin on like er tree full er budgies with yer clock watchin an yer knittin, us yer sick er whut?
Bailey got orl twitchy in ther old folks home when he fust went there cos they dun think ter put him ter bed at night an he follered ther staff on their rounds uv ther oldies day an night. They fixed thut an he's fine now.
I reckons yer nut gettin enough sleep like he wasn't. I'll bet ut's thut Daisy, takin up orl yer couch.
Nah here's ther drum! Get ther Big Boss ter get aht ther big mat yer slept on when yer leg wus Talarook. Get him ter put it in a corner an claim ut. Tell thut Daisy ter go bush ef she comes near ut, then go ter sleep an stop worryin abaht stuff.
How's abaht yer gives ut er go mate an give ther activity stuff er rest, Eh?
Clyde.
Comment by TanyaMary
Some updates on the puppies. Beyleigh found the smae sharp blade of grass that Scratchy found last year. We get home, Mike was on the phone when I hear, "I gotta go, there's blood". Blood? What now. Well, it seems that Beyleigh was in such a hurry to get inside out of the rain that she clipped her leg on something and tore a hole in her skin. Of course whenever she hurts herself it is after hours and a visit to the local vet hospital emergency dept is expensive so I dressed it up and took her to our vet the next day. She gets the stitches out on Saturday.
Lastly, "Cupcake" has been at it again. We are finding it increasingly difficult to keep him out of the kitchen and off the benches. Today was a new thing all together. He got into the pantry and found the remaining silicone cupcake molds and proceeded to thoroughly examine each one to try and find the delicious cupcake centre that the last one had. He didn't find one...
We are really keeping our fingers crossed and hoping to have more than three weeks without and incident. Keeping all of your fingers and paws crossed for us may also help.
Tanya
Comment by Heidiclyde
Clock watchin'? Cupcake carnage? Us thut sort'a stuff proper Greyhound behaviour?
Amber our city friend us er clock watcher too an she's er sheila. I dunno, whu'huppen'd ter ther lazy laid back life we're mean'ter live?
Heidi an me, we reckons uts time ter get happy abaht yer dinner when ther bowl er nosh us in yer food stand, yer know ut's gonna turn up sometime, nah point'n makin er fuss bifor ut dus, ut dun win yer any Brownie points makin er fuss!
Yawn,
Clyde.
Comment by Chris Champion
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It's not so much about the clock as about the food. I'm clear on that. You see, when the big hand's over the little hand, and you take off seven and add a half, then dinner's close.
I think.
Look, maybe it's not so much about the food as about the clock. Yeah. I'm clear on that now.
I think.
Leans,
Scratch
Comment by Heidiclyde
Your efforts are an impressive example of the brainless activities of boy dogs. Just how do you expect the hoomans to make more cakes for you to steal if you destroy the things to make them in?
The Missus is laughing again. She says she'd like to see you try to chew up her old style Muffin trays. She says Tanya and Mike should do what she did to Pirate. That was mean but quite funny really.
She left a cake on the bench beside a muffin tray then went around the corner with a good book. She didn't get much reading done though, Pirate was onto the bait quick smart, he couldn't get the cake without making the tray rattle and the minute she heard that the Missus sprang around the corner roaring like a fighting Malamute.
Pirate couldn't get down fast enough and couldn't get a grip on the slippery floor to take off so he got a good dose of roaring.
I had such a good laugh but soppy old Clyde said he thought the Missus was really scary.
The Missus still reckons Pirate will steal if he can but he was pretty careful around the kitchen after that.
He's gone to live with a nice young man at Elliston now, I wonder if he's wary in his kitchen?
Tail wags,
Heidi.
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Very, very well done on the interim patch job and saving the 24-hour hospital charge.
Scratchy is worse than your guys in clock-watching terms. His dinner hour is 6pm also, but he jumps up and follows me any time I go anywhere near the kitchen after, approximately, breakfast time.
But Scratchy's definitely better than Lynx when it comes to knowing that the kitchen and pantry are out of bounds. That must be frustrating, although there's something romantic about the Legend of Cupcake. We're looking forward to the next instalment, even if you aren't
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Comment by Heidiclyde
Scratch mate ef thers one thing hoomans are good ut it's knowin when ter feed us. Ut's allus just after they've had their own dinner.
Ut ther moment we has ter wait till ufter ther rug rats uv'ad their bath so's Alyssa c'n help feed us before she goes ter bed.
Ut's kind'a fun bein fed by a sprat not much taller than you are. We has ter wait till she's stepped right away bifor we hops in but.
Clyde.
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Comment by Heidiclyde
Yer know sometimes I reckon yer really are a garbla bricks short of er load. Yer'd better ask Daisy abaht ut.
Clyde.
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