Homesteader Update: Alarming December 6, 2013

I have to do something about my alarm clock. Somehow she--yes, she--knows precisely when I'm supposed to be getting up for work. I can hear her coming admonishing me to get up. Now! To the "noise" she adds paws, the sound of a motor, and a cold nose. And she's always in "snooze control." She gives me my first alert, jumps down off the bed so I get the idea, waits a couple minutes, and then back again--noise, motor, paws, cold. I know, sounds as if the "alarm clock" is working fairly well. The problem is that she has no concept of weekends--or like today, snow days off from school. All days are the same. At 5:30 it's time to get up lazy human. "After all, I need my daily can of cat food, the birds need to be fed so I have my morning entertainment, and you need to get out of my house so I can do whatever I please. Rise and moan old man." Got to get that alarm fixed.