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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.

Stopping for Sunflowers

04 Oct

I’m stuck at the dog hotel and I take no responsibility for what’s posted here.

This time of year the sunflowers are out. I don’t see any of them when I’m on my trails, but they show up along the roadsides and they even show up in my backyard. And this year they showed up at the beginning of my trails. We didn’t have a bike rack here last year. That must be the attraction. The sunflowers wanted to hang out with the bike rack.

I was getting pretty tired of hanging around while my person kept taking pictures. There’s trails calling out to me. I’m ready to go on an adventure.

I figured as long as I had to hang out anyway I’d keep busy and get a good whiff of those sunflowers.

That whiff reminded me of something. I can’t believe I was so excited to hit the trails that I almost forgot to do this.

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Posted by Bongo on October 4, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Sunflower, Trail

Passing the Time

03 Oct

I’m stuck at the dog hotel and I take no responsibility for what’s posted here.

Hey everybody, this is Scratchy. Bongo’s not here, so I’m taking over his blog. He’ll never know.

It’s really kind of quiet here with everybody gone. Just me and the frog, which would be a good thing if I could get to that frog – but he’s in the bathroom and the door is shut.

I’m missing my person – and don’t you ever tell him, but I’m missing Bongo too. He kind of livens up the place.

I’ve been trying to come up with some new things to pass the time until everyone comes home again. It’s kind of hard to do that, but I did find a new place to hang out. My person never uses this thing much when she is here. I guess that’s because she spends way too much time on the computer.

It’s not really all that comfortable here, but it does give me a good view out the window.

Whoa! What’s happening? My mind is playing strange tricks on me. I just had visions of Bongo trying to get up here with me.

Maybe I’d better go back to hanging out on the couch. I don’t think I really meant it about missing Bongo.

It is so nice and peaceful here.

Scratchy

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Posted by Bongo on October 3, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Frog, Pets, Scratchy, sewing machine

Dots, Dots, and Hats

02 Oct

I’m stuck at the dog hotel and I take no responsibility for what’s posted here.

The other day I was walking on my trails and I saw a pile of dots.

I’ve seen these things on my trails before, but now there were a lot more. My person says my younger person used to shoot dots like this out of his airsoft gun.

Now I remember. I used to go jumping after that gun every time he shot it off.

So that mystery was solved and I headed down the trail with my person.

But a new mystery was about to develop. Because I saw more dots – and these weren’t the same kind of dots at all.

One dot here.

Two dots there.

Oh no! Double dots.

And this dot’s surrounded!

I put on my Detective Dog hat and started sleuthing around. And just when I thought I was getting to the bottom of this…

Is somebody making fun of me?

Those dots turned to hats.

I’m putting my paw down on this one.

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Posted by Bongo on October 2, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Airsoft, mushrooms, Pets, Trail

Globe Mallow

01 Oct

I’m stuck at the dog hotel and I take no responsibility for what’s posted here.

My person went off to Colorado and I’m stuck in the dog hotel. I wasn’t allowed to bring the computer with me so I take no responsibility for what is posted on my blog.

Lately my person has been making me hang out and wait a lot while she gets her camera out to take pictures. It’s flower season again on my trails but the globe mallow usually hangs out all summer long.

For some reason these flowers just started coming out this year. A couple of them tried to make it early in the summer but they fizzled out. It was really hot and dry before that dreaded thunder season started.

These flowers grow on bushes and when they have all summer to grow the bushes sometimes get really big.

But I think my person is spending far too much time with her camera.

Time to go.

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Posted by Bongo on October 1, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, globe mallow, Pets, Photography

Tablets of Stone

30 Sep

Moses with the tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt (1659) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I guess God didn’t want the Israelites hanging out in one place very long. They had manna and water out of the rock, and they’d chased those nasty old Amalekites away so they had it pretty good. But they moved again.

In the third month after they left Egypt they came to the Desert of Sinai and camped in front of Mt. Sinai.

God told Moses to go up on the mountain to meet with Him, but not to let anyone else come up there. The people stood at the foot of the mountain and it was covered in smoke because the Lord came down on the mountain in fire. Smoke billowed up from the mountain and the whole mountain trembled violently.

I think I’d be running the other way about now. I bet Moses was scared.

I’m listening, person.

Moses was up on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

That’s a long time. What was he doing up there all that time?

He was what? Talking to God for forty days? They must have had a lot of catching up to do.

Yes, I’ll listen.

While Moses was on that mountain God gave him two tablets of stone with the Ten Commandments written on them.

What are the Ten Commandments?

No way! You mean I have to change my ways? I don’t even want to repeat those.

Okay… Here’s what my person says the Ten Commandments are.

Honor your people and always do what they say the first time they say it.
Don’t bark unless you’re chasing away a bad guy.
Don’t chase cats.
Don’t eat the cat’s food.
Don’t eat treats out of the litter box.
Don’t chew on things that don’t belong to you.
Don’t steal food.
Be good when your people leave you alone in the house.
Don’t jump the fence and run off.
No mischief.

Hey person, I can’t follow those. I just can’t. They’re too hard. Especially that “No Mischief” one.

What?! There’s a way around it? How? What do I have to do?

My person says that people can’t follow the Ten Commandments for people any better than I can follow the ones she gave me. She says God had to give people another way to get to heaven because nobody can do it themselves. She says that’s a whole other story but it has to do with God loving us so much that He sent His Son to come down and take our place and die on a cross for us.

You mean God’s Son takes care of it for me?

Woo woo! I’m going to go get into some mischief.

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Posted by Bongo on September 30, 2012 in Bongo, Dogology, humor

Tags: Bible, Christianity, dogs, faith, God, Jesus, Moses, Mount Sinai, Pets, Ten Commandments

The Missing Piece

29 Sep

Hey person, check this out. This is a real puzzle for sure. Somebody forgot to put the last piece in the puzzle. I’d better put my Detective Dog hat on and find out where that missing piece is.

Do you see it anywhere? Nope, not over here. I’d better check somewhere else.

Check this out, person. I think I’ve found it.

Do you think this is it?

Do you think it will fit in this spot?

Hey, wait a minute! Why would someone forget to put the last piece in when they had it right here? And I thought I was doing so well. I found the missing piece, but now I have a whole new mystery.

I wonder who put this puzzle together anyway.

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Posted by Bongo on September 29, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Pets, Puzzle, red rock, rock

The Perfect Weed

28 Sep

Check this out. The weed of weeds! And I found it right on my trails. I’ve been dreaming of a weed like this. I could spend hours of munching pleasure chomping down on this weed.

Look at it. Those luscious, shiny, beautiful blades of grass. And for dessert there are even some tiny weed seeds.

I’ve never seen a weed like this before. I don’t know where it came from, but I’m sure it was placed here just for me.

Now comes the challenge.

My person is standing right next to me and she likes to pull on my leash when I start chomping weeds. I’ve got to find something to distract her.

Maybe some cute little flowers that she can take pictures of.

Hey person! Over here! Check these out. You’d better get out your camera.

Whew! Lucky break. Those flowers weren’t easy to find.

Now to chow down!

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Oh yuck! Ptooey! Gross! This weed tastes terrible!

Hey person, put your camera away so we can go. I think I see some of my regular weeds over here.

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Posted by Bongo on September 28, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: flowers, Pets, Photography, Plant, Weed

The Heart Man

27 Sep

My person and I met this man on my trails and he stopped and gave me loves. Some people give me loves, but most of them just walk by. Sometimes they say something to me, but a lot of them ignore me. It’s really disappointing, but that makes it special when I do get loves.

This man talked to my person for a couple minutes – general stuff like how nice a day it was. Well of course it was a nice day. Anytime I get loves it’s a nice day.

We were about to go on when the man reached into his pocket and handed something to my person.

And then I realized who he was.

The Heart Man!

We don’t see him often. We’ve only seen him twice before. But whenever we see him he gives my person a little red rock shaped like a heart.

I think it’s pretty cool that he does that – and especially cool that he gives me loves. But I think there’s one more thing he needs to do.

I wonder if he could get some heart shaped treats to hand out to dogs.

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Posted by Bongo on September 27, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: heart, Pets, rock

Little Yellow Flowers

26 Sep

This time of year everything seems to turn yellow. Well, I don’t mean everything. I don’t turn yellow, and neither does my person. And the rocks around here don’t turn yellow. But there are bushes everywhere with little yellow flowers on them.

There’s so many that I have to sort through them just to get to the good weeds.

And I have to sit around while my person takes out her camera to take pictures of them.

I thought this time of year was going to be so good. No more thunder and no more heat. Who would have thought that little yellow flowers would be my downfall? I think I’ll bury my person’s camera under a log.

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Posted by Bongo on September 26, 2012 in Bongo, dogs, humor

Tags: Flower, Pets, Photography, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Trail, yellow flowers

Party Time

25 Sep

Last night there was a party. Actually, I think there were two parties. And I wasn’t invited to either one.

One of the parties was right on my street. They even went past my house. I don’t know why they didn’t think to stop and invite me. It was totally rude of them.

The party on my street was a javelina party. And this morning it looked like they had a really fun time.

Last night my person and a bunch of the neighbors put their garbage cans out on the street. They do this about once a week and I still haven’t figured out why. I think they’re just asking for trouble.

Well, they got trouble and this morning they were all out picking up their garbage cans and filling them up again. Except they didn’t get filled up quite as much this time. The javelina probably picked through the garbage to find party hats and favors. I don’t think they have a javelina party supply store.

But there was a second party. My person and I found evidence of it on my trails. My person picked up that party can and brought it home with her. I guess she thinks the javelina need more party supplies.

I don’t think my person gets it. Javelina aren’t going to want any people party supplies. She might as well put that can right in the garbage.