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About Bongo

I am a dog who has lots of mini adventures that I love to share. I live with a cat named Scratchy who sometimes steals my blog, and with two people. When my adventures don't turn out so well I get my person to laugh while she helps me write my blog and then I don't get into as much trouble.

Early Spring

27 Jan

I think I’m in trouble now.

This is January, right?

Isn’t January the middle of winter?

Well, it kind of doesn’t seem like that here – but the flowers should pay attention.

They’re not supposed to show up for months.

But my person found one today.

The first flower of spring – but it’s still winter.

Which means it’s already started.

Those drudgingly long waits while my person gets her camera out and takes picture after picture of flowers.

And it looks like it’s going to be a long season this year.

I don’t know why she does it.

I mean, aren’t these the same kinds of flowers that she took pictures of last year.

And the year before.

I just don’t get people sometimes.

They don’t make any sense.

Okay, I’m done with my rant until the next time my person gets her camera out.

Wait! What?

More flowers already?

I forgot about those Manzanita bushes.

They always start blooming really early.

And then when they stop blooming they have berries.

And my person takes pictures of those.

I think I’d better do something about this.

Maybe I should eat them like I did to those curly weeds the other day.

Oh. Ummm.

This is going to be tricky.

There are a lot of Manzanita bushes on my trails.

Does anybody want to come help?

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Posted by Bongo on January 27, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Camera, Flower, manzanita, Pets, Trail

Staggered Shifts

26 Jan

Last week I was trying to stuff a camel through a needle’s eye – but it didn’t work.

Do you think maybe I could get my treats to go through?

I mean, heaven wouldn’t be heaven without treats.

Okay, I’ll listen to the story.

But I hope there’s treats in it.

***

Jesus said, “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.”

***

How many treats does a denarius buy?

I am listening.

***

“About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went.”

***

Maybe he was going to pay them in treats.

***

“He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’”

***

I bet if someone offered them treats they’d work for them.

How much listening do I have to do? Give me a treat first.

***

“’Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.

“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’”

***

That man must have had a lot of treats to pay with.

What do you mean, vineyards have grapes and dogs aren’t supposed to eat them?

No fair!

***

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’”

***

I think I’ll wait and hang out with those first workers – after they get paid, that is.

***

“The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When the received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. ‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’”

***

I bet those grumbly guys won’t even buy me any treats. I think I’ll go hang out with an eleventh hour guy.

***

“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am so generous?’”

***

Now I know who I’m going to hang out with. I think I like that landowner.

***

Then Jesus said, “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

***

Okay, I’m getting in line last – I mean first.

I mean – I don’t know what I mean. I’m all confused.

Which way are the treats?

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Posted by Bongo on January 26, 2014 in Bongo, Dogology, humor

Tags: Bible, Christianity, faith, Jesus, Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, Pets

No Fair!

25 Jan

Sometimes life just isn’t fair.

Like today for example.

I got stuck in my kennel all day.

All day, mind you.

While my person went off and had fun all day.

And then she had to show me pictures to rub it in.

She hung out with ducks.

I don’t know why she didn’t take me.

I could have gone swimming and duck chasing all at the same time.

I would have broken up that fight.

But I guess my person didn’t like the duck violence because then she started checking out a crane.

Something was chasing that crane off.

I’m not sure if it was the duck fight or my person’s camera.

So my person left those birds and found more fun stuff – without me.

I bet I could have gone for a ride in that pink car.

Or maybe not. I guess if the car took off they’d have to change the name of that road.

But here’s the worst part.

My person actually hung out with other dogs – without me.

At first I thought she went to visit my friend Kevin…

But my person said there was no way she could have gone to Japan and back in a day.

I’m not sure I believe her.

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Posted by Bongo on January 25, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: crane, dog jail, ducks, Kevin, Pets, Photography, pink car, Shiba Inu

Stare Down

24 Jan

I went out in my yard today as innocent as can be.

All I wanted to do was play with my Frisbee.

Oh yeah, and take care of other things too.

When all of a sudden my attention was drawn upward.

Do you believe it?

This pesky squirrel was sitting on a wire staring down at me.

And we sat there having a staring contest.

I’ll get that pesky squirrel yet!

At least I won the contest.

That pesky squirrel couldn’t hold out very long.

And he…

Ran on down the wire.

What a chicken!

Wait. Umm. I mean –

Chickens are good.

To eat that is.

That squirrel ain’t no chicken.

He’s a …

He’s a…

Scaredy cat. That’s what he is!

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Posted by Bongo on January 24, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Frisbee, pesky squirrel, Pets, Squirrel

Slacking on the Job

23 Jan

You see what’s attached to me?

No, no! Not the leash.

Well, I guess you can’t see what’s attached to my leash, but you can probably figure it out.

My person is on the other end of it.

It’s kind of a burden sometimes but it’s one of my jobs.

I’ve got to take her out so she can get her exercise.

I thought all dogs had this on their job description.

But I found one today who doesn’t seem to think so.

Who is that hiding in the bushes?

I wonder if she ditched her person by going places her person couldn’t follow.

Here she comes.

Hey brown dog, if you’d stay on the trail like me you could be doing your dogly duty and giving your person exercise.

Say what?

Don’t tell me what to do.

It’s a little late to be hitting the trail now.

Where is your person anyway?

Fine. Be that way.

What is it with these personless brown dogs anyway?

It seems to be turning into an epidemic around here.

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Posted by Bongo on January 23, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: brown dog, exercise, Leash, Outdoors, Pets, Trail, Walking

Curly Competition

22 Jan

I thought I was safe this time of year.

No wildflowers are blooming, so my person isn’t getting her camera out every few minutes and making me wait while she takes pictures.

So I couldn’t understand why she pulled her camera out.

I mean, it’s the middle of winter – well, I think it is. The calendar says it is.

So what is there to take pictures of?

Except me, of course.

And I wasn’t doing anything spectacular at the time.

Nothing to take pictures of anyway.

And then my person gets up close and personal – with a weed.

I guess she’s pretty desperate.

She wants to take pictures so bad that she’s even willing to take pictures of weeds.

Maybe she should get another hobby.

I think I ought to help her along.

No, not with another hobby.

I don’t want her doing anything else that would take her attention from me.

No, I’m going to help her along by doing away with her subject matter.

By eating it.

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Posted by Bongo on January 22, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Camera, hobby, Pets, Photography, weeds

Strange Sounds

21 Jan

Sometimes when I’m out on my trails I hear strange sounds coming from the top of Sugarloaf.

In case you haven’t figured it out, Sugarloaf is that round, red, hill thing over there.

So anyway, back to those strange sounds.

Sometimes I hear people yelling from up there.

Sometimes someone is playing a flute.

I’ve even heard drums beating up there.

But today I heard one of the strangest sounds of all.

I heard chanting.

And not just any chanting.

Three people were chanting in unison.

They must have practiced a long time because they all were in the same place at the same time with their chant.

I heard that sound, but I had to look all over the place before I finally found where it was coming from.

So I had my person take a picture of those chanters so you could see them too.

But I think you might have to look as hard as I did in order to find them.

Happy chanting – I mean looking.

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Posted by Bongo on January 21, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: chanting, Pets, Sugarloaf, Trail

Danger Warning

20 Jan

They’re all over my trails.

Sometimes people we pass ask my person how she keeps me away from them.

But for the first time today someone warned us about them.

A boy who had just discovered them.

I don’t think he was attacked, but he saw the danger.

Those things have attitude.

And some of them hang out right next to my trails.

So close that you have to be careful not to brush against them.

But I think that boy might have been overly concerned.

Let me see.

Nope, he’s right.

Away, you prickly pear! Away!

Don’t get so close to my trails.

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Posted by Bongo on January 20, 2014 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Cactus, Pets, prickly pear, Trail

How Big is a Needle’s Eye?

19 Jan

I’m still waiting for all those loves from Jesus.

Maybe he’s waiting until you tell me another story about Him.

Maybe He’ll give me loves while you’re telling it.

So I’m listening.

***

Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”

***

You’ve got to hang out with Jesus for that eternal life stuff. Even I know that.

Yes, I’m listening.

***

“Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied.

“There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments.”

“Which ones?” the man inquired.

Jesus replied, “Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”

***

That’s me all over!

What do you mean, I sometimes accuse Scratchy of doing things that I really did?

He did too do all those things!

I always honor you and do what you say. After all, I’m the perfect dog.

I ran off? Oh, um – I came back to you didn’t I?

Okay, I’ll listen.

***

“All these things I have kept,” the young man said.

***

See, that man and I are two of a kind.

***

The man asked, “What do I still lack?”

Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

***

Wait, does that mean I have to sell all my treats?

Oh, I can do that. Jesus gives out fish.

***

When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.

***

Young man, come back, come back. Jesus will give you all the fish you want!

***

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

***

It’s a good thing I’m just a poor dog – and a lot smaller than a camel.

Wait, how big is the eye of a needle?

***

When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

***

Whew! I was beginning to worry.

I just found out how big one of those needle’s eyes is.

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Posted by Bongo on January 19, 2014 in Bongo, Dogology, humor

Tags: Bible, Christianity, faith, Jesus, Pets, rich young ruler