tickety-tock, no need for a clock

Ever since we moved into our house, we have no reason to have clocks. The surrounding dogs keep time just as well. In the morning, without fail, Lola wakes us up between 6 & 6:30. Sometimes earlier; on those days we hit the snooze button by saying drearily "Lola, go back to bed". That normally shuts her up for about a 1/2 an hour or so.

We know that it's about time to head to bed when the neighbor lets her dogs out and they bark and bark and bark and bark. It's like clockwork, every night, without fail (unless, of course, said neighbor is out of town; we always know when that is because we don't hear the damn dogs barking all the damn time).