Today's Apocalyse Sign: Shape-Shifting Dog Has New Partner

Remember the Devil Dog from this post? Last Saturday night my wife had a surprise for me. She had told me about this "surprise" on Thursday night after we got back from the IMAX version of Inception. She cannot keep surprises very well so I said, "why don;'t you just give it to me Friday night". She said she couldn't until Saturday. I was tired and hot (the IMAX apparently will NOT cool the theater when there are only 15 people watching the movie) so I quickly moved past this subject onto something else. I gave the surprise no more thought.

Saturday I worked and she had a dive class to teach at a local lake all day. When I got home I remembered her statement about a "surprise" and started my mental rundown of the usual suspects. Nothing detailed but just kind of general brainstorming. Was she buying me something (hope not, couldn't afford it), were friends coming over (hope not again as the work day was long and I was bummed about Tiger playing like shit at the Bridgestone), did she win some radio call-in contest, did she win a scratch-off lottery ticket, was her boss paying my way for our Fiji trip next year, etc. It was running close to 7PM and she hadn't called yet so I got on the Internet for a while.

I had not been at the computer for more than 10 minutes when I walked out our back door to check on a noise I heard outside. Finding nothing, I turned around to come back in and saw the gag sign we have up outside the back door that says Beware Of Dog.

Now I don't know if any of you get what most people call premonitions or intuitive flashes, but I had a huge one right then! I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was bringing home a new dog. To be specific a Boston Terrier puppy. I went back inside and told our other Boston that mama was bringing home a new addition to the family. I immediately begain thinking like it was already there...what are we going to name it ( running names through my mind), how are we going to coordinate the care during the day, how are we going to afford another pet to feed (my dogs only get the best organic food and vitamins), most importantly was I up to the grind of cleaning up for the duration of pre-outside potty training?

I'm tellin' ya, this was like California-psychic clear to me! A DOG WAS GOING TO BE IN MY LIFE THAT NIGHT!!! It was really kind of freaky.

An hour later as I was sitting in the lounger watching TV with my back to the door. I hear my wife come in. She doesn't answer when I say, "hi, honey". Instead she walks up and lays this on my chest:

6-Week Old Cornelia

Already she is sticking her tongue out at me!

Devil-Dog Caesar

Okay, Here is a fairer picture of Caesar that night, a little miffed.

When I told her about my sure-fired premonition, she thought for sure one of my co-workers had spilled the beans about it since she had been working on this for over a month. I told her to ask Caesar cause he knew the truth...it was still kind of freaky.

Now we have a 5-year old, 29-pound male BT and a (currently) 7-week old, 1 1/2 pound female BT!

This will be fun!