Easy To Please

~Jinx was apparently curious today about early morning driveway activities

Max's favorite thing to do is to ride around in the "Max Mobile". I'd guess that of the 260,000 miles my old Tahoe has logged, Max has been on board for at least 75,000 of that--maybe more. If I'm not taking him with me when I leave the house, I have to be careful not to let the keys jingle when I take them off the hook they hang on above the desk in the kitchen. When I see that he's watching me closely-which is pretty much all the time-and when I'm not planning on taking him along, I'll actually pull the old slight of hand maneuver in an effort to distract him from seeing that I'm getting the keys off the hook. Then I'll walk out the back of the kitchen and exit quietly through the front door, as if I'm just going outside to check on the grass or get the mail. He probably still knows I'm up to something, but it makes me feel better about not taking him along: he gets very excited and then very disappointed when he discovers it's a false alarm.

Unlike most of his human counterparts, Old Max is pretty easy to please: 2 square meals a day, a few head pats or belly rubs, and at least 2 or 3 ride-alongs each week. And after that as they say...he's good to go.

~Ebony and Ivory?

~"C'mon man...."

~Waiting patiently