Cooking Something Up – Conversations with the Pack

I am Doodlebug, King of the Olde English Bulldogges.

Sweetie: You are frowning, Lady Human. Your face has gone all bulldoggy.

Me: I’m trying to cook something up, a new idea for a project I’m working on.

Doodlebug: Can we eat some of it? Like all of it?

Sweetie: I love the stuff you cook up. Mmmm….

Me: It’s not that kind of cooking.

MoonCat: Save your breathe, ma’am. They’re already floating off into a dreamy bulldog feast.

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I Have an Idea! – Conversations with the Pack

I am Doodlebug, King of the Olde English Bulldogges.

Sweetie: I have an idea!

Me: Uh-oh.

Sweetie: No. Not an uh-oh idea. A good idea.

Doodlebug: Okay, I’ll bite. What is it? Not that one where we climb the tall fence and chase the stinky truck.

Sweetie: But there’s all those wonderful smells coming from it!

Doodlebug: Nope. Not happening.

Me: Nope. Bad idea.

MoonCat: Not all ideas are worth pursuing. Especially not stinky ones on wheels.

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A Refuse Pile of Notions – Conversations with the Pack

I am Doodlebug, King of the Olde English Bulldogges.

Sweetie: Lady Human, there are two big bags of stuff in my favorite napping spot. And they don’t even smell interesting.

Me: Oh, I’ll move them. Those are just some old supplies I gathered that I’ve never used. I had notions about crafting decorations and stuffed animals and crocheting some more sweaters, but I never…

Sweetie: NO! NO! NO MORE SWEATERS! EVER!

MoonCat: Lady Human, kindly drive any notion of putting a sweater on me right out of your head and into the nearest refuse pile. For once, Sweetie and I stand united.

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