Clementine's Korner

"I saw Goody Temple Virginia speaking with the devil!  She come to me in the black of some terrible night, and I hear her crying and wailing, and make me wish the sun never gone down.  I am but God's Finger.  My finger's still broken."  

Clementine's Korner

"In the past six weeks, they have been getting up several times a night, just to sit on the couch for forty minutes.  I didn't understand it, but I would get up with them, because I also like to sit on the couch, as long as someone picks me up when I say and puts me back on the floor when I say.  Then, all of a sudden, those lazy buttholes stopped waking up when they were supposed to.  I believe, as chief in charge of household affairs, that it is my responsibility to keep everyone on schedule.  That's what I had to wake everyone up the last 4 nights in a row.  This laziness will not stand.

Also, our neighbors were outside talking quietly, and that freaked me out.  That's also why I was barking.  

Also, the wind was blowing.  Also, I had gas."

The first act of vengeance

"I shall have my revenge.  For all your sins, I shall have my revenge.  My first plague: I have stolen the word 'walk' from your vocabulary!  Henceforth, neither Matt nor Krista shall speak the word 'walk' in this house, unless they wish a rash of barking dogs scratching and barking at the front door and gnashing our teeth.  And that isn't all!  They shall be so conditioned, they shan't even speak the word when the dogs aren't there!  Diminished to speaking in euphemisms!  Delicious vengeance!"

The Clems-Eye View

Clementine has really grown up since baby Temple has come home.  I think Clems had a sense that she was on the way when I was pregnant.  Clementine laid on my belly a lot, and Matt and I both believed that she was whispering messages to her while we slept.  Now that Temple is here, Clementine always wants to keep an eye on her.  Clems will now jump up on the couch all by herself; she hardly ever asks me or Matt for help.  She is asking to go outside to go to the bathroom, and this morning, when it was raining, she asked me to open the bathroom door so she could do her business in there.  She's a good girl.