11/27/1999 - 12/14/1999

Heh! dis is duh Rock-eh Dawg-eh - Yo!

What a mess.  I've been waiting weeks now for my turn at the video camera.  No luck.  Since I'm just a dog I don't rank very high in the media resources schedule, I guess.  So I finally gave up and decided to post this anyway.  OK, so I'm all ready to upload my latest page - minus pictures - and we're out of disk space on the web server.  See, I'm so generous I share my web site with my pet people, and how do they thank me?  They upload MEGABYTES of pictures from their summer vacation a year and a half ago!  Can you imagine?  I don't even remember what I ate for breakfast this morning, and they're still thinking about a little trip they took way back then.  I just don't get it.  But there's a lot more around here I just don't get.  More on that later...

I have a conscience!  At least, that's what I think it is... it hangs around my neck and every time I get the urge to do something bad it reminds me that I shouldn't do that.  It's really handy.  I am so popular now with my people that I almost can't stand myself!  My new conscience is quite fashionable as well.  It's shiny black with a red blinking light on it.  It has its own black collar as well.  It's a bit of a nuisance when I have big plans of my own, but otherwise it doesn't bother me too badly.  If such a simple fashion accessory as a conscience can make me so popular, then it must be worth it.

BIG MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS going on in the house right now.  It's amazing!  I've NEVER seen anything like it.  I told you the holidays were coming, right?  Well, I'm starting to develop a sense for what it all means, I think.  Thanksgiving is GREAT!  It means lots of people to play with, and non-stop performances of the 'Rocky-Show' from dawn 'till dusk.  I did so many tricks and ate so many treats that I didn't even think about regular food for a couple of days.  I did spins 'till I was dizzy, and dancing is one of my particularly well advanced tricks.  I can walk on two legs for a long time, and even throw in a left-rock (hee hee hee!) turn or two.  Thanksgiving dinner was an exquisite combination bowl of my regular dry dog food with a little can of the really good stuff mixed in.  I stuffed myself and slept most of the rest of the day.

Oh! and I learned something else really exciting as well - I learned that the little fence that was designed to keep me out of the rest of the house, confining me to the family room and kitchen, was only a decoy!  Here, all this time I've been looking over the fence longingly, jumping up on it, whining and crying when nobody would pay attention to me, when all this time all I had to do was jump, and, *bloop* I'm over!  That was a great day in the morning I'll tell you!  HA!  I jumped over it three times in just a few minutes.  Then, I got to thinking, "hmmm... maybe if those pet people of mine really wanted me running amok through the rest of the house, maybe they wouldn't have gone to all the trouble to put up that little fence to fool me."  I thought about it for a (short) minute, then my new conscience sort of stung me, and I decided the grown-up doggie thing to do would be to stay on my side of the house and let my pets have their privacy.  So, now I just sit and watch when people are in living room and just enjoy the clear view.  With that little fence gone, it opens up the whole house just like it's all mine.  I just choose to stay in my cozy domain in the family room.

Now, there's at least one more holiday that I can already see coming and this one, folks, is REALLY strange.  Get this - I get in all sorts of hot water when I bring a branch or even a stick into the house, but my pet people have brought a whole TREE into the living room!  I tried to tell them to get that thing out of there, but they wouldn't listen.  Now, it sits in there, all covered with stars.  I don't have a clue how or where they got the stars, or how they got them to stick in the tree, but they're kind of pretty, all white and twinkley.  Then, there's the fruit - mostly purple, gold and white. Really strange colors for fruit, and really smooth and shiny, and perfectly round.  And, what's more, that kind of tree should have pine cones on it, not fruit.  Now, that'd be something!  A whole big tree dropping pine cones all around inside the house!  Wow, talk about a chewing spectacular!  Anyway, I'm convinced people are nuts...

Well, I need to get started on my Christmas card list here, so I'll have to let you go.  I'll have further updates on the Christmas phenomenon as time goes on.  I really can't wait to see what this develops into and what it's all about.   Later!...

rocks.
 

I'm a Staffordshire Bull Terrier

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