[PyrNet-L] sleeping/living arrangements

["Gerry Kemske" <kemske@wi.mit.edu>]

Here's how these things work at the Kemske house:

9:00pm ­ Gerry and Floyd go to bed.  9:05 ­ little rescue Pyr Sugar and main Pyr Tuff Travis come upstairs.  Travis rests head on bed but cannot jump up that high; Travis goes to sleep on floor beside the bed.  9:08 pm ­ Sugar,  built like a short-legged 90-lb tank, somehow manages to jump onto the four-poster bed and oozes her way up to the top of the bed between Gerry and Floyd.  9:09 pm ­ Floyd pushes Sugar back down to the foot of the bed.  Sugar stares reproachfully at Floyd. Floyd glares reproachfully at Sugar.  9:15 pm ­ Gerry falls asleep; Sugar falls asleep across Floyd's feet.  9:20 pm ­ Floyd's feet are being crushed; Floyd gets up and moves into best spare room for the night. Sugar moves up to top of bed. 12:30 am; Gerry stirs restlessly as dog hair keeps landing on mouth.  Sugar stares reproachfully at tossing Gerry and gets down to move to other spare room bed for the night.  4:00 am -  Floyd gets up to check internet sites while traffic is light.  4:15 am ­ Travis goes downstairs and makes Floyd take him out to study constellations.  4:30 am ­ Travis comes back upstairs and rests head on Gerry until she gets up and hoists him up onto bed. 4:32 am ­ Gerry gets up so she will have time to a) mix up dogs' all natural food breakfast; b) mix up Floyd's special tomato sauce and toast breakfast; c) clean up glops of kale and brown rice spit out by dogs; d) take one dog out for 45-minute stumble along completely dark country road dropping flashlight from mittened hands and jumping into poison ivy from time to time when pickup trucks come roaring down the road; other dog remains at home, sulking. 6:30 am ­ Gerry leaves for work.  Floyd begins work at home.  8:00 am - Travis and Sugar begin work barking heads off.  7:00 pm ­ Gerry arrives home.  Floyd makes dinner; Gerry mixes up dogs' all natural food dinner.  8:00 pm ­ Floyd takes Sugar and Travis out for last time to bark at trees. 8:05 pm ­ Gerry cleans up collard greens and brown rice spit onto floor.  9:00 pm ­ Gerry and Floyd go to bed.